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Tuesday, 20 July 2010 Early up, coffee, rusks and pack. Goodbye to German girl who cycled off, legs pumping, her poor bicycle creaking under all the weight. We walked to tram, managed to use yesterdays tickets and then special bus to airport, the usual booking in etc. and then when I wanted to check in […]

Monday, 19 July 2010 We changed our mind and rather than taking the direct train to Basel do the scenic route via Zurich and were pleasantly surprised that it was absolutely no problem. We were treated to some typical postcard scenes. In Zurich we had lunch in the park, wanted to go to the museum,

Sunday, 18 July 2010 After breakfast we took a stroll into town to get train tickets to Basel and explore the town on foot. We took pictures of anything that took our fancy including this garage whose owner obviously had picked up some old aeroplane parts. Also any swiss cottage with scrolls, carvings, decorations, you

Saturday, 17 July 2010 The plan, well, my plan, was to take it easy but arm got twisted to climb to the top of the hill behind the campsite. First we had to walk through the streets of the suburb to the start of the path and encountered this lovely cart and horse combo. Soon

Friday, 16 July 2010 Today it was time to explore the second of the two large lakes which gave Interlaken its name. We took the bus to Bohlingen and then started to walk the road along the edge of the lake. The early morning mist gave the lake and the mountains an eerie look. While

Thursday, 15 July 2010 Unfortunately our six-day train pass has run out so the Jungfrau rail trips are a thing of the past. We needed a rest anyway so we decided to take a stroll along the Thunersee. It still turned out to be a fairly long walk along forest paths but with a long

Wednesday, 14 July 2010 The furtherst point covered by our six-day pass was Grosse Scheidegg, a high pass between two valleys so we had to go and see it. First the train to Grindelwald which we could catch with our eyes closed by now and the last bit by bus, you can see why. The

Tuesday, 13 July 2010 Our mission today was to visit the Bachalpsee, an alpine lake close to the small village of First. Again train to Grundelwald and then up with the cableway with individual gondolas, very nice trip. From the end of the cable station it is a short way to the lake. On the

Monday, 12 July 2010 Took train to Alpiglen to do a walk in the shadow of the Eiger so to speak, five hours on a trail, first quite bare and open, later more through forest. We hadn’t gone far before a waterfall higher up the mountain beckoned us so of course we had to go

Sunday, 11 July 2010 We wanted to ride a cable car today and combine it with a decent hike so we chose Murren as our destination. It is becoming a bit of a routine now, bus to Interlaken Ost train station and from there the local train to Lauterbrunnen or some other destination at the