We wake to find nice, sunny skies!!! This is awesome because we now will make the trip up the schilthorn - to about 10,000 ft! It's a bit pricey ($85 with the railpass) but in the end more than worth it. The trip up the mountain involved several trains and cable cars - the Swiss seem very good at both. First we take the train from interlaken up ...

We arrived in Switzerland late Saturday night. Weird experience as the check-in is at the bar! But all in all, it turned out okay, for what we paid anyway ($70/nt). I think i'd stay here again. So this was supposed to be our day for some crazy hiking or something in the alps. But, alas, mother nature was exactly on our side with this one... It p...

Well! Greg and I boarded the overnight train from Florence around 10pm last night and encountered a very interesting surprise... We were told the trip would be on sleeper/couchette cars but when we boarded we entered a cabin with other people in a room as smqll as a closet! of them were American- from universities in Alabama (David, Matt, & Tris...

SUNDAY - May 19th After two nights in Gimmelwald, it was time to check out of the Mountain Hostel. John and I had wanted to go tandem hang-gliding, but the weather yesterday would not allow it. Today was also overcast, but we had heard Monday might be sunny. We checked our bags at the Interlaken train station, and tried to get more specific weat...