Greetings from Interlaken!
Yesterday we spent a whole day traveling from Florence to Interlaken. We left Florence for Milan, went from Milan to Brig, Switzerland, then Brig to Spiez, and finallz Spiez to Interlaken. With 3 destination transfers you can imagine how our day went. From having to pay for seat reservations to sprinting to train terminals to telling our life stories in front of 4 complete strangers for a tourist interview, then getting yelled at by border police and having to walk about a mile in the rain to Balmers carrying our luggage made the day exhausting to say the least.
We are staying at Balmers youth hostel and we were immediately impressed by the nice receptionist and pretty much free everything beside the room and internet. We definitely recommend Balmers if you ever come to Interlaken. After we settled into our small log cabin-ish room we headed out to dinner where I tried my first Thai meal ever and had my first Heineken on the trip. The dinner was completely and utterly scrumptious after such a long day.
Today we took a bus to train to a gondola to a train to walking to a gondola to finally reach the top on Mount Schilthorn. Mount Schilthorn is about 10,000 ft. high and had a gorgeous view of the Swiss Alps. After about an hour of taking pictures and standing in awe of Gods gift to the Swiss we eventually toured the inside of the lodge and watched a Touristarama on the making of James Bond 007 at that very mountain top. It was awesome. When we eventually got down the mountain we walked around the city of Interlaken and ate the most delicious meal. We ate a Swiss delicasse called Rösti, which is hashbrowns with an assortments of toppings. Jess had fried egg, bacon and cheese, whereas I had plain ole ham and cheese. We were hungry considering we had no time for lunch but it was well worth the wait.
Tomorrow we leave for Paris, France for four days. Lucky for us we only have one train transfer this time and then its a straight shot for the Eiffel Tower. Talk to you then!
Yesterday we spent a whole day traveling from Florence to Interlaken. We left Florence for Milan, went from Milan to Brig, Switzerland, then Brig to Spiez, and finallz Spiez to Interlaken. With 3 destination transfers you can imagine how our day went. From having to pay for seat reservations to sprinting to train terminals to telling our life stories in front of 4 complete strangers for a tourist interview, then getting yelled at by border police and having to walk about a mile in the rain to Balmers carrying our luggage made the day exhausting to say the least.
We are staying at Balmers youth hostel and we were immediately impressed by the nice receptionist and pretty much free everything beside the room and internet. We definitely recommend Balmers if you ever come to Interlaken. After we settled into our small log cabin-ish room we headed out to dinner where I tried my first Thai meal ever and had my first Heineken on the trip. The dinner was completely and utterly scrumptious after such a long day.
Today we took a bus to train to a gondola to a train to walking to a gondola to finally reach the top on Mount Schilthorn. Mount Schilthorn is about 10,000 ft. high and had a gorgeous view of the Swiss Alps. After about an hour of taking pictures and standing in awe of Gods gift to the Swiss we eventually toured the inside of the lodge and watched a Touristarama on the making of James Bond 007 at that very mountain top. It was awesome. When we eventually got down the mountain we walked around the city of Interlaken and ate the most delicious meal. We ate a Swiss delicasse called Rösti, which is hashbrowns with an assortments of toppings. Jess had fried egg, bacon and cheese, whereas I had plain ole ham and cheese. We were hungry considering we had no time for lunch but it was well worth the wait.
Tomorrow we leave for Paris, France for four days. Lucky for us we only have one train transfer this time and then its a straight shot for the Eiffel Tower. Talk to you then!
No comments:
Post a Comment