Back home
Hi guys, I'm right back home from my trip to the mountains. I went to Grindelwald, a lovely spot in the Berner Oberland. Even thougth it's very famous and all the tourists going up there, I didn't know the area very well. One reason more to have a look at this fantastic alpine scenery.
Unfortunatly, the weather was not as good as expected so I couldn't see all the places that I wanted to. Clouds were trapped up in the peaks and made sort of a doomy scene sometimes. Anyway, it was sooo impressive to see the huge mountains going up just right behind the village. All around!
As a typical swiss guy I didn't take the aerial gondola (cableway) and climbed up there by foot ;) After a short two-hours-walk I reached these unbelivable steep wooden stairs in the wall. They lead up to the "Obere Gletscher". The lowest accessible glacier in Europe. It was pretty exhausting to climb up there. The stairs were wet and some tourists blocked the way, scared and didn't dare to go up nor down anymore. Poofs!!
But to see the glacier up there was more than worth the effort. Great!
Later in the afternoon, back down in the village, there was a little swiss mountain festival. Mainly for the tourists of course, but I pretty enjoyed it as well. They showed how to make cheese, city kids could pet young calfs and goats, heeps of food, beers and traditional music.
Here we see some typical swiss mountain guys as we all know them: strong, hard working, bloody stubborn, talk not much, but if they say something you don't unterstand one single word of it, and in the end very very smart... you see, just like die murane!!
Thats it for now. Sorry for the layout, you know, Blogger sucks! Maybe I'll post some more pictures later. Must go to the Hamam now and wash away my sins.
posted by Die Muräne @ 10:26 AM
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