After traveling through half of Switzerland the past two days we needed some rest. After all we are on vacation. We got up late and stayed home all morning, enjoying a brunch containing of sausages, dry meat, assorted cheese, fresh bread from our bakery, nutella, Hero marmalade and butter. Fabulous!
A good view of Grindelwald from the balcony
About 1 pm we went up to Grindelwald for last minute shopping and some drinks.
Drinks came first and we went to Grindelwald sport center. We had a corner table in the bar with glass windows, on one side with a view of the tropical pool area and on the other side of on arctic ice rink where they played hockey. Pretty nifty.
The tropical side
10 year olds had a coaching session
Donna is ready for shopping
Afterwards we walked up and down the main street, buying some Swiss souvenir clothing for ourselves. Taking it easy we soon took the train back home. For the last time in this vacation we had dinner in the restaurant Grund, just 200 yards from home.
View through the window from our favorite "Restaurant Grund"
That night we were out of Bacardi but we still had a refrigerator full of "Rugenbraeu", a local beer. Donna enjoyed some champagne and I reduced our beer inventory, together with my usual Krumme.
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Wednesday, September 27th, we decided to drive the car to Interlaken to take a boat ride on the lake of Brienz. Half way down the hill our drive got interrupted by some cows, going home from the alps. Luckily we had to follow them only about 15 minutes before there turned on to their home pasture. The cows where acting very happy, being home for the winter.
We had to drive very slow, it would be inconsiderate to pass the cows
Happy cows turning into there Pasture
Soon we boarded the Boat in Interlaken and stayed outside on the upper deck to enjoy the view. Beautiful sunshine and no clouds made for the gorgeous scenery. But the cool breeze from the lake made us move inside in to the restaurant. With windows all around we still could enjoy the view and on top we had lunch and a bottle of Epesses. The round trip took exactly 3 hours, and we had a great time.
Ready for departure
Leaving the dock
Beautiful, but breezy
Boats build for tourists
Check out the sky and the water
Prost !
Enjoying the ride
Wienerschnitzel and pomme frites with lots of Swiss Ketchup
Coming off the boat, we had a quick espresso on the terrace of the boat dock restaurant and Donna detected and loved a great car she would like to buy to go back and forth to work.
Street legal
Just the right size
On the way home we had to visit a grocery store to purchase more Epesse for our enjoyment on the balcony. Still full from our late lunch, I only fixed some penne pasta Alfredo and Nussli salad for dinner.
Sadly this was our last night in Grindelwald, but our most precious one. It was unreal as our (we consider them the best pictures of our entire trip), will prove.
My face is in this picture to prove I was there
Mountain on fire ! our best picture
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Wetterhorn, the name of the Mountain
The sun is disappearing
You really had to be here to appreciate this show !
your pictures from the wetterhorn are just gorgeous or even outstanding! Much better then mine from the sunrise. Grüessli us dr CH
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