I say first because we really hope to make it back. It truly is breathtaking! One of the big tourist areas called Interlaken is about 5 hours away so very doable for a return visit next year when more of the areas are open. The girls had a week long break at the end of October so we spent 5 days in the Interlaken area which is south of Bern near the Jungfrau and Eiger mountains if you've heard of them. We were blessed with fabulous weather which was a real gamble since it could have easily been rainy and foggy this time of the year. Each day was sunny and around 60 degrees for a high. Perfect! It is "off season" so we had the place almost to ourselves. We rented a great two bedroom apartment in downtown Interlaken, bought a two day rail pass and explored the area. We went up to the Schilthorn mountain via 3 trains and 3 cable cars (note in the cable car picture you can see at the far upper left the station where this car started!!) to a height of nearly 10,000 feet. The view was fabulous (don't ask Dayna though she was preoccupied with the snow on the viewing platform!). We could see as far away as France and Germany. The restaurant and viewing site was initially used for a James Bond movie called In her Majesty's Secret Service if you've ever seen it. Revolving restaurant and all - amazing that they can build something like that up in the middle of nowhere!! We had some transfers in small mountain villages so it was very quaint. Most of them are "carless" and there were cows everywhere. It is hard to imagine an existence like that still exists in 2009! Of course, they supplement their income with tourist ventures but it really is a foreign existence living at that altitude!! Here are some of our pictures - they are worth more than any words I could write.
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