Minotel Bruno Kernen's Bahnhof
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Chffing down
... trip round Migros to stock our sad looking fridge. 30CHF doesn't fill even one bag despite buying own brand. It will be a pasta-fuelled season.. . again. Phone topup purchased so shouldn't have desperate run out for a while.
Silly tokens for washing machine purchased and I just about figured the machine out. 3 sets of instructions-in French,German and Italian. I have smattering of each ...
Journey to Interlaken
... deserted! Everything was closed, even the Christmas market! Lisa and I are both left hoping to come back some day in the summer to see what it is like then because we hear it’s beautiful. It was beautiful in its own way, with the quaint Swiss houses covered in snow, and the towering mountains surrounding it (or at least what we could see below the clouds!). Interlaken is full of grand old hotels, including the grandest of all, ...
Tunnel Time
After getting back to Lauterbrunnen, we decided to take the train up to Wengen. We walked from the gondola part of the station, through an underground walkway to the train terminal, where we got on a train to Wengen.
Now, the train wasn't like the small cog wheel train that we took from Grütschalp to Mürren. This one was ...
Interlaken Area
... living area. There's also a bathroom and a kitchen-- with table! It's really nice and not super expensive for five people. Apparently Europeans don't have a lot of kids (or travel with them) so finding room for more than four (and sometimes more than two) is very difficult. We went out to eat and had Rosti and Fondue. It was pretty good traditional Swiss fare. Then sleep.
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Into the snow
... ATM but the silly machines in Switzerland would not allow me to input all 8 digits of my pin in them. What the hell? (I later discovered that I was adding extra digits to my pin, but that's a story for another blog). We had a late lunch after our failed ATM withdrawal attempts, and began to head back to the hostel when we realised Miguel could also withdraw money using his card. We returned a second time to the ATM and Miguel successfully withdrew ...