Blogs from Lauterbrunnen, South-West, Switzerland, Europe - page 3

Day 4: Paris, France to Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland Saturday, October 10th, 2009 The fourth day of our trip was spent mostly on the bus driving from Paris, France to Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. The view coming into Switzerland was quite beautiful. When we finally got to our campsite, we learned that we needed to pay for hot showers. I guess hot water is a luxury in Switzerland ;-) After we settled into our cabins, we had dinner in the Topdeck tent where we were served traditional Swiss cuisine, which included cheese fondue. I don't know about you, but I am more of a chocolate lover. I love chocolate fondue. I found the cheese fondue to be too rich and liquored up (which could be a good thing ;-). After a mediocre dinner, we congregated in the bar at the ... read more

Lauterbrunnen was amazing - It was so beautiful that it didnt look real. After arriving we just walked around the town and took in the beauty. Magical! ... read more

Day 4 - Lauterbrunnen I wake up pretty early to have a shower and enjoy the brisk morning air. I take a few snaps of the scenery and bump in to 3 nervous souls who are about to do the skydiving optional extra. Simon, Trent and Brendan all look a little scared, but I can’t blame them, I certainly wouldn’t want to skydive. I have breakfast and then we take the brief walk to the train station to catch the really expensive train up to Jungfraujoch, commonly known as the Top of Europe. Most of our group cram on to the little train and we head up on our couple of hours journey to the top. The views from the train are amazing; the snow capped mountains are just like a postcard scene. We switch trains ... read more

Today's activity was going to be a little more traditional but a lot more strenuous. A group of us that included myself, Cody (San Fran) and Jake and Joe (the OC) were going to rent bikes and trek up to some of the mountains down in this nearby valley. Got up pretty early to get a head start on the day and rented bikes from this nearby pizzeria. Everybody in this town has some connections to the action/adventure sports. It took us about an hour and a half of mostly uphill biking to reach the town of Lauterbrunner which sits at the end of one valley and from there we took another half an hour to bike down through the valley to another small town on the end. I know this is getting redundant but the ... read more

Today was probably the worst hangover I’d have the whole trip. Also, my muscles hurt so badly today I could barely get out of bed. We were up early, had breakfast, and began our long drive to Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. I slept for the first three hours, and then we made a stop in Milan, where I had spaghetti (again). I’m finding that Italy is more expensive than the other countries we’ve been to, or maybe I’m just buying more stuff here. We had a smooth crossing at the Swiss-Italian border, and then we were on our way to Lucerne. About half an hour from the city, Filippo was telling us all about Switzerland, and how they have many rules. Just then a police car sped up in front of us and flashed a sign telling us ... read more