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This morning we woke up at Hotel Schoenbuehl in Wilderswil, overlooking the biggest peaks of the Swiss Alps, the Eiger, the Moench and the Jungfrau. We ate breakfast at 8:00 (sleeping in!) and then went down to the train station to take a train to Lauterbrunnen and then a cog-wheel train to Wengen. In Wengen, we got on a Lufseilbahn that went up the mountain to Maennlichen, the beginning of our Alpine hike.
From Maennlichen to Kleine Scheidegg, we enjoyed the most beautiful Alpine scenery and even a few snowball fights here and there! Se took some really beautiful pictures and hopefully we can add those for everyone to enjoy soon!
Once we reached Kleine Scheidegg, we stopped for lunch and ate the Swiss specialty, Rosti. Everyone thought it was delicious and really enjoyed the Roesti with the bacon, cheese and eggs on top!
When we finished in Kleine Scheidegg, we took a train back down and went back to the hotel for some more swimming. Supper time came soon as we ate rice, curried chicken, salad and tomato soup. Then back to the pool for swimming and once the pool closed, we spent the rest of the evening playing cards, ping pong, trivia (with the scottish kids) or even a few went to a truck festival that was in town!
Good night for the Alps!
We woke up this morning and, on our way out of Reutte, took a quick stop to take pictures of Neuschwanstein, another of Ludwig’s castles… and is most well known as being the Cinderella castle from Walt Disney world (and at the beginning of every movie)!
After that we drove some more and stopped for lunch (with our groceries) in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein is known as the “Postage Stamp Country”. That is for two reasons: 1- on the world map, it is hardly even the size of a postage stamp (it is a very small country), and 2- One of Liechtenstein’s biggest markets is postage stamps! People love to send postcards from there because it is such a hard stamp to find for all of those stamp collectors out there. We didn’t do any shopping here because we didn’t have time, so we just ate our picnic lunch outside the city and kept on our way.
After Liechtenstein we were into our third country (really fourth if you count the quick stop into Germany for the pictures of Neuschwanstein), Switzerland. We drove to Luzern, Switzerland and had a moment to take a look at the Löwendenkmal and the Kapellebrücke (two well-known attractions in Luzern that also have a great historical significance). Then we had a bit of time for shopping, but Switzerland is very expensive. A McDonald’s value meal costs $15.00!
Once we were finished in Luzern, we had a beautiful scene to watch out the bus window as we drove to Wilderswil… beautiful turquoise lakes surrounded by Alpine mountains.
Finally we made it to Wilderswil, where we took up residence for the next two nights at Hotel Schönbühl. This hotel is situated so beautifully… we woke up every morning to the three biggest mountains in Switzerland: The Eiger, the Mönch and the Jungfrau. This hotel also has a pool and we took advantage of it right away after these hot and muggy days. We ate another delicious supper and then almost everyone hopped into the swimming pool right away. Everyone played water volleyball and then did some chicken fighting… and then a gaggle of 13 and 14-year-old girls from Scotland (they were on a school trip) hopped in and everyone played along. It was a fun time… and very refreshing.
