Blogs from Interlaken, South-West, Switzerland, Europe - page 25

It was our first free weekend to travel anywhere in Europe we wanted. So six of us girls packed our bags and headed off to Switzerland. It was perhaps the best first trip one could ever take because it taught us so many truths about backpacking through Europe. The most important being that the only thing you can really count on is things never going as planned. Gaming, Austria (where I live) is like no other place in the world. Basically, since the town is so small and there aren’t accessible means of public transportation, hitchhiking is an acceptable thing to do. It’s fast, effective and saves us from having to walk 45 minutes to the train station with our monstrous backpacks on our backs. Four of the six of us hitchhiked down to the train ... read more

(Posted on October 16 by Kim) After Venice we headed to Interlaken via a night train to Zurich. My friend Jesi had highly recommended Interlaken as a fun outdoor adventure place for both Joe and I. We had thought we would do something crazy like ice climbing, but by this time in the trip we were both exhausted, out of clean clothes, and tired of spending money. Our lodging was very reasonably priced in Interlaken, but the food was very expensive. When we finally decided on a lunch place in Interlaken, Joe decided he might as well go all out and ordered a steak. Plus, we’d been eating lots of pasta in Italy, and many of the pasta dishes had no meat or much smaller amounts than what we were used to. The steak was pretty ... read more

We're on our way home and I've only got 8 minutes of internet left. We got very wet in St Gallen, headed back over the alps to Lugano and Locarno - both very beautiful, everyone should go. Then north again to Interlaken where we had been planning to spend 6 days but were diverted by the floods. Two people died just along the lake from here, a massive mudslide came through the village in the night. The Swiss are cleaning up with impressive efficiency. We went up to the rotating restautrant where they filmed On Her majesty's Secret Service, fantastic views of the Jungfrau and Eiger, and went to an outdoor museum where they've rebuilt 100 old buildings from all over Switzerland in a lovely setting, called Ballenberg. I've got 13 more pictures to add but ... read more

Interlaken, Switzerland August 6-9 Hostel; Balmers Herberge...One of Europes 15 most famous hostels We have officially been gone one month now! Sure doesnt seem like it! Anyways, now we are in Interlaken, Switzerland...which is the most opposite of flat Grand Forks you can get. By far the most prettiest and spendiest place we have stopped. For example, we found McDonlads to be the cheapest, which usually is not the case and for 2 meals there it was nearly 18 US dollars! Sooooo, that means we were no where near having the money to do adventure sports such as skydiving (300 USD), paragliding, (150 USD for 25 min.), hangliding, canyoning and such, but the trip is definatly not over yet, and maybe in Australia well re-visit the idea. Things were so expensive it honestly made us laugh, ... read more

well maybe not, but pretty high up in the mountains in switzerland. I feel like i've died and gone to Yosemite. As i step outside, there's this huge mountain in front of me. So large it looks fake. The air is clean, the water is pure, and scene is relaxing. I also went to Geneva and Zurich. Nice places but really expensive. Switzerland to me is the Simi Valley of Europe. Safe, clean, but there aint s*** to do. I forgot last time to mention how the Running of the Bulls was. Or maybe how i like to call it, Jogging of the Bulls, because it seemed thats all they were doing until they got to the collisseum. I heard some stories of guys getting trampled, one of em told me about it in Ibiza, crazy. ... read more