Lauterbrunnan, Switzerland

This is to be our last new town. We were really excited about coming here as we had heard so many good things about it from all the other travellers that we had meet over the 3 months. And it did not fail to meet our expectations. This place was absolutely beautiful. A bit like St Johann in Austria but we were much higher up in the mountains than there plus here, there was snow capped Alps!! We had had a really long bus journey to get there (8am-7pm) so we basically dumped our bags and headed to the campsite restaurant to taste some of Switzerland’s famous Rosti. Oh my gosh it was good!! It is this kind of potato pancake but topped with mushrooms, ham and cheese. Delicious!

On our first day we went to these amazing falls called Trummelbach falls which are actually inside of a mountain and the water falls here at 20 000 litres per second. The noise when we were inside was so loud Liz and I had to shout at each other. After that we headed off into the little town and had hot chocolate and a wander around. Now over our hot chocolate we had to ponder on what to do the next day. The choice was between catching a train to the Top of Europe, expensive OR head up on a gondola to the Revolving Restaurant where a James Bond movie was filmed once, less expensive. After much deliberation and conversations with our fellow travellers we decided to splurge and head to the Top of Europe. And oh my gosh are we glad we did it! We had an absolutely perfect day, clear blue skies all around which made for good photo opportunities.

The journey to the top took 2 hours but it didn't seem like it as the views from outside the windows kept us entertained. It was so beautiful. And then we reached the top. My breath was taken away. It was just miles and miles of snow with these huge peaks just standing right in front of me. So magnificent. The Top of Europe is actually called Jungfraujoch and at the lookout it is 3571m. So cool. They have built this entire building inside the mountain which contains souvenir shops, a few restaurants and an Ice Palace!!! But before heading to the Ice Palace, we headed outside and I got to stand in a whole lot of snow and play with it for the first time in my life!! (I'm not counting the itty bit of snow I saw in April in London) It was awesome!! We had so much fun up here! I even sent postcards from the top, and for those who received them, they are special because Jungfrau has it's own postcode AND stamps the mail with it's altitude (3454m where the post office is) . Feel special people!! The Ice Palace here was so fun. It is basically all of these rooms completely made out of ice,Liz and I went sliding around in there. There is a video of us doing this but you'll have to be nice to us to see it when we get home. Ha! So anyway that is how we ended our stay in Lauterbrunnan which was just perfect. Can't wait to go skiing now!!