Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Interlaken...

... Is awesome!!!! Its hard to describe the beauty and atmosphere and the huge nature that is here. Know i understand why my sister told me i would have a hard time leaving once i got here. We in fact cancelled our two nights in Bern (the capital) to stay here longer.

Today we rented mountain bikes and took a train and cable car up to Grimmelwald (which we hiked to yesterday). From there we biked up to Mürren (note the use of oom lout accent on u) which is a bigger (and not as nice) version of Grimmelwald. We had some traditional swiss food consisting of two dished: shredded potatoes, fried, with cheese; and a sausage in onion sauce. Very good and fattening, must be great to eat during cold winters in the mountains. From there we biked down some very difficult terrain to the town at the bottom of the mountains. I only flipped over my handlebars once going over boulders... Good times!! (no, really, it was fun). Tomorrow we may go hang gliding/para-sailing. I may also try bunging jumping if i don;t think about it too much.. we;ll see. Also, on our bike ride to the cable car we saw two guys base jumping (you jump off a rock face with a simple parachute that you throw into the air, no backup chute).. we actually didnt see them jump but rather heard the following: whoooooo!!! and then the sound of them throwing their chute open. we also watched guys launch into parasailing from on top of mürren. we have video and hopefully willl share soon. Currently we dont have anyway to upload pics we took but will do so asap, they are awesome!!

1 Comments:

Blogger todd. said...

Gorgeous image from Interlaken.

2:09 PM  

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