Monday, September 3, 2007

Needs More Cowbell!!

We're in Switzerland at the moment. Suffice it to say that the words are hard to find to describe this place. It's impossibly beautiful. Everywhere you look there is a giant mountain with a cow (wearing a genuine cowbell) or a little village in the foreground.

We came to Interlaken, Switzerland, by way of Chamonix, which is just over the border in France. We rode the cable car on the opposite side of the valley from Mont Blanc, but the cable car summit was unfortunately socked in. We still got some great views of Mont Blanc on the way up and we were able to get a cool photo from the summit, which is high enough to be above the clouds. Here's a photo of us at the top of the cable car:

From our base in Interlaken, we have spent a few days on the train, tooling around the Swiss high alpine villages. They are unfailingly stunning. We were originally going to stay here for two days, but we're on our fourth.. and counting!
This is at the summit of a scenic cable car at 10,000 feet.
This is the highest mountain in this region, Jungfrau, at sunset. We took this photo from the balcony of the B&B we are staying at.
Here I am at th foot of Jungfrau. You can see the rail line in the background.

We love it here, the scenery is world class and the peo0ple are great. The only downside is that is exorbitantly expensive. But, as you can hopefully see from the photos, it's a truly amazing place to be - definitely worth the expense.

Sorry for the short blog but this computer is not cooperating!

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