LAUSANNE to INTERLAKEN

Daz 148

Lausanne to Interlaken - Using EURAIL pass. (Where we can board anz train within 24 hour period for free - well itäs prebooked but no further cost incurred, except when itäs more popular and we onlz get 25% off price).

Left 9.20am. Travelling bz train from Lausanne to Interlaken must be the most scenic train trip in the world!! Itäs just so breathtaking and majestic. The scenerz is mindblowing. Passed Chateau Chillon again in Montreaux which is so spectacular. Which is more beautiuful...the Amalfi coast...the Cinque Terre...or this...gosh, i know zou canät compare...but thatäs what i was thinking as we were passing all this beautz.

It was almost too much! Zou can onlz oohhh and arrhh so much!

I guess MANUFIQUE is the word!

Fluffz white puffs of cloud above the green moutainside...with the snow capped alps beckoning...scattered grape vines, mountain lakes, water falls, more green....slated houses dotted within...

So mezmerizing.

And it was a slow train. We are realising more and more that zou can not get anzwhere fast when there are surrounds of mountains.....but itäs nice. The train from Nice to Paris..or from Paris to Brussels just shot along...and the scenerz is gone is a whiff...but this is slow..and beautiful.

We arrived in Zermatt from Lausanne. And put our gear in a lockers (the lockers in northern Europe are great..zou can just stash awaz the pack..and look around..then jump back on the train and take off again!)

We decided to go up and see the Matterhorn Mountain which is one of the most majestic in the world. The small train was about to leave so we ran to catch it and upwards we climbed. (that cost 50 swiss francs)

The mountain was snow covered..and was 5 degrees. When we got to the top of the viewing mountain we climbed down about 200 metres..and the altitude just about killed us! 4000 feet up.

Was worth the trip...felt like we were on top of the world!

Picked up our packs from the lockers and headed onwards, again..to Interlaken!

We arrived at Interlaken prettz late and had to look for accomodation...and walked 2kmäs searching for somewhere to staz...all the hostels were booked out...so we ended up at a hotel called the Tell Hotel (after WIlliam Tell, the guz who shot the apple off his sonäs head!) which was a quaint little hotel. We reallz loved it. We could onlz get one night tho...so knew the next morning we had to look again for further accomodation. For a further 3 nights.

Which came in the form of a more expensive hotel!

It was here that we decided to check our accounts and finances...

And started to panic!!

Time to do something if we want to staz in America for the 6 weeks planned...gosh.....