SWITZERLAND 2010 - RAILWAY ROMANCE

                         On Wednesday morning  we changed our plan for today because we both woke up with some minor sourness in our legs from yesterdays hike. So we took the train from Grindelwald to Wilderswil, where we had to wait 1 hour for the railway bahn, a very old fashion train with wooden benches, who will take us to the top of Schynige Platte, 6000 feet above Sea level.

Waiting for train, her favorite pass time, reading a book

or flirting with engineer

                           The train arrived and we could not believe our eyes, there must be at least 200 old people struggling to get an the train. It looks like  I was the youngest one beside Donna. The train was climbing at 9 miles an hour and it took 1 hour and 10 minutes to get to the top, but we had incredible views from both side of the mountain.

                        On our arrival we went right away to check out the world famous botanical alpine garden. There are over 600 labelled species on display. Unfortunate it was very late in the season and most of the flowers been gone.

Just a couple samples of the alpine flower garden

                         Next of course we had to visit the "Berg Restaurant Alpenrose". The restaurant was closed for renovation,  but there had a self serve snack bar open with limited menu. We had some white wine and European style hot dogs, very messy but not bad.

                         We enjoyed the great mountain scenery around us and took the next train back down.

First view stepping of the train

Schilthorn in the back ground

Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau

Wetterhorn

This is the view from other side of the mountain of Thunersee

                        A little bit tired we went back to our chalet, had some drinks and I fixed us a delicious tomato soup and wurst salad with fresh bread and butter.

Simple but delicious