Mercure Bristol Leukerbad

Weekje sneeuw en RELAXEN

Wat een heerlijke week!!

Hij begon wat gehaast en het bezoek aan de SEATdealer (knipperend dashboardlampje); was ook niet echt bepaald gepland..
Onderweg veel werkzaamheden op de duitsesnelweg wat tot de nodige vertraging zorgde maar .. waardoor we ook van mooie herfstkleuren hebben kunnen genieten.
Na 12uur rijden kwamen we in het donker aan in het wel vertrouwde huisje Wengi.

De volgende ...

... high season and ski season where the work on repairs and do all their maintenance...who knew!! We had gone to this town, with the main intent of going on a gondola ride up the mountain...but it was CLOSED, so we spent a couple hours just walking around, and then headed back to Interlaken. We went grocery shopping to make stirfry for dinner when we got back...and then it was time that we could check in to our hostel. We were pretty ...

... any time). Needless to say I wish I could bottle up that feelin of peace and keep it with me... I hope to come back to the Alps for Christmas, we'll see. however bein that Interlaken is kinda like Banff, it will probably be very busy and such during that time so, I just have to enjoy my short time now... The bus's in Interlaken stop runnin in between noon and 1pm, I guess its their lunch break! so we had to wait for the bus for about 45 ...

... is a mountain that rises 9,748' above sea level. At it's peak sits a restaurant called "Piz Gloria"'. Now a restaurant at the top of this dramatic overlook, which gives you a view to the Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau peaks (all in excess of 13,000' and snow-covered, would be spectacular enough. However evidently the Swiss wanted more drama, so they also made it revolve. For those of you who are 007 fans, the restaurant was "blown up ...

... did a small but nice hike in the mountains the next day. It’s crazy how you lose your hiking skills really quickly. I felt like i was going to fall over every step I took. All over the valley, we could see para-sailers in the sky, it would have been awesome to try except it the damage was at least $170 each... bummer.

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... weird I know but you can not do so in the winter. You can even hit golf balls into the glacier. So cool. there is even a huge ice cave, or palace, as they call it you can walk through, and yes it is all ice, the floors, walls, cellings, chairs, sculputes, everything, so cool. And yes cold, but you have to be expecting that, it is never warm up there, if your out of the wind and are in sun, it is quite nice, but dont be expecting to find ...

... at 1,650. On our way back across the country we stopped in the picturesque town of Lucerne. We walked across the lovely Chapel bridge, first built in 1333, and around the Old Town until the rain forced us to move on. So we will definitely be back to Switzerland! With more money next time so that we can enjoy some more of the countries striking landscape, take part in some of the many adventure sports and we will be more organised and book a room up at Gimmelwald! Mileage - 304

... really angry, maybe they are resentful at all us happy non sweating people?) Feeling a little woozy now - both of us- not just me, we scooted down (if you can scoot through a mountain (over a two hour journey actually), and met a nice Indian family (whose daughter insisted she knew 'secrets' about her mum, as we didn't want an international incident we insisted she kept them to herself). (JENN - They lived in Dubai and the daughter just wanted rain, any rain as they never see ...

The last week has been amazing, each day better than the day before. Besides hanging out with the Hauser family, it was great because I was in the Swiss Alps. Some quick highlights...although nothing can describe just how great it was...I did take a couple pictures (around 800 I think) so....I have some good ones to show, and I'll post a few on here to give you a little idea of what I saw. -On our way to Leukerbad (the town where Sarah and many swiss ...

... time! I met a few Americans while in Murren, and had a great time with a couple, Harris and Audra from Boston. It ends up that Harris was a telecom guy like myself, and was also an Econ major. Audra is a high school computer science teacher. We had dinner at the "nice" place in town, and while I thought the buffet was only E18, it was actually E45...traveling can be about dealing with surprises! Rick Steves, while not a fan of Interlaken, is a huge fan of a small little ...