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Published: June 12th 2010
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so early friday we get up, have breakfast, pack our stuff and say our goodbyes to our new friends, richard and aurin from denmark, and joana from slovakia who was the front desk lady for the lake lodge hostle.
take the bus into interlaken and get a train to lauterbrunnen. amazing train ride ....beautiful views alongside the river and beside the mountians....beautiful.
get into lauterbrunnen and walk the bikes up the hill at the trainstation to the bike path....awesome..right by a huge waterfall...so high it turns to mist..then condenses on the side of the mountain and then makes the roaring river.....bike along nicley by beautiful paths and meadows full of happy goats with bells on munching happily.
beautiful, green, amazing..what else to say? the pictures can only convey a feeling of the size and green we bike through.
the going gets tough but that just means the bike back to the station will be easier than going......finally get to the cable car and up we go!!! to gimmelwald!
no cars...quiet.....i hear birds and the waterfall coming off the mountians in the distance...thats it....the cow adn goat bells are the only noise here in this place.
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the hut that stores the cheese we ikes around a bik to take a look..its lovely...they are bringing the cows from the valley below to go to the high pastures...so gimmelwald is the midway point.
the huge bells on the cows are moslty for show, the one man who was helping with it told us. he looks older and have an obvious limp...and this guy walks down the mountain that takes 3 hours to get up with the cows..and looks as fresh as a daisy.......people are tough here.
anyway that was fun..he also said the big bells are for showing off the pride of the farmers..and for the tourists msotly...but still nice.
talked to the girl scout lady we met....turns out shes a big geek too.....found a few more great web sites to check out...fun stuff like zero punctuation.......a guy who gives game reviews....its hilarious!!! and useful!!
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation
anyway after a good nights sleep we have breakfast and then go back to bed....hey we havent done that in....4 weeks!!! and im tired...anyway we watch some wallace and grommet i downloaded adn then go out for a bit to buy some of the local alpecheese, fresh milk and hand made beef sausages
sold at the house down the way here.......turns out its the cow guy with the limp that answers the door......sweet!!
the little hut with the flowers all over it is the cheese house.....when he opened that door...omg the smell was amazing....we knew we would be buying more cheese before we leave.....anyway..giant wheels of cheese all over the walls....just sitting there begging to be eaten.....awesome...adn he told us how they make it....after they move the cows to the high pastures the milk from them way up high ther is made into the alpecheese....they have to be so high up or they cant call it alpecheese....otherwise at gimmelwald level its mountain cheese...the flowers and grass they eat are so differnet it makes different flavors.......he let us try it all...yes it is that good...and the prices for it all?
the 1 litre of fresh milk...1 frank....the nice big slice of cheese 6 franks...the sausage...3 franks.....and the sausage he tells me is sold now in 5 star hotels and restaurants in geneva...(he knew some guys cuz hes from there) and theya re rated 19 out of a possible 20 ....ona scale i wasnt familiar with..but its some bigh hugh muckety muck deal
for richy rich types and no one ever gets a 19.....so you know this stuff is good!!!!
so yeah...our lunch was amazing. afterwards i decided to relax around ehre and update the blog...and grizz took a hike to murren..(30 mins by hike up the mountain) to check store prices...have some alone time and maybe use the indoor pool there....its a good day.
enjoy the pics.
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Vickie
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Beautiful
I can see u are in wonderland can't wait to see all the pics when u get home love u both