Three days chilling in Interlaken

After a month of hectic moving we decided to take a couple of days out and relaxed in the beautiful setting of Interlaken. Nestled between two lakes and surrounded by the mountains in Switzerland, Interlaken is a relaxing or adventure paradise. Our campsite, yet again nestled on the shores of the river that connects the two lakes, right across from downtown Interlaken.
Time was spent swimming at the pool, trips to the supermarket, uploading photographs to the blog.

Yesterday we took a train ride on a cog driven train up to about 2000 metres, put on our walking boots (in fact tried out walking boots, there was a boot manufacturer that offered free trials of their boots, good marketing ploy, fortunately the woman manning the boot borrow place was not interested in trying to sell) and walked around the mountain tracks for a couple of hours… truly superb. Glaciers, blue-grey lakes, enormous mountains, autumn colours. We walked along a ridge with both sides sheer drops and magnificent views.


This blog entry does not do justice to the beauty of this spot… will upload pics once I have them off the camera. It would be easy to spend a month here riding the trains up the mountains (the main form of transportation, one goes up 3600 metres), walking the tracks and of course trying out the adventure sports stuff... a note for next time!
Had a lovely chat to Laila courtesy of Skype and a free Internet connection this morning.
Today we are back on the road, destination Italy if we can get out of this beautiful country.