Interlaken, Switzerland

Moin moin...

Well we arrived in Interlaken, Switzerland yesterday morning. It was an interesting trip from Nordeney. We traveled 14 hours throughout the night on the Eurail train system! We had to change trains twice, but one of them was in a sleeper train. Quite interesting! If you ever get a chance, I would say you need to experience it. There are 6 platform beds stacked 3x3 into 1 small room on the train, with barely enough room to stand. The beds are only about 5.5 feet in length and are attached by bolts into the walls. So what happens if you over 6 feet tall? Needless to say, I was so tired, that I slept the entire time of that trip (7 hours).

Once we arrived into Interlaken, it was another adventure of trying to locate our hostel by foot. After quite a distance of walking with all of our luggage on our back, we finally found it only to discover that we had to wait until 3:30 pm to check in (it is 10 am at this point). But they were nice and let us leave our luggage in the lobby area while we trekked around Interlaken.

Upon recommendation of the hostel, we went to Schilthorn, a location on top of the mountains. After a tram, a bus, and 4 cable cars we were over meters high on top of a mountain with a spectacular view! It is truly a beautiful wonder of nature!

As far as today goes, I think we are starting the day off by doing laundry (yeah!)and then some are going Canyoning with a possibility of paragliding, and if time permits, seeing some waterfalls-but from the inside of the mountains.

Until next time.... Guten tag!