Monday, Sept 23, again a glorious day, for a fact, the weather forecast will stay like that all week. Lucky for us although the breakfast is becoming routine, (continental, with cheese and specialty sausages) the view never gets old. Sitting outside on the balcony watching the sunlight descending on the north side is phenomenal.
This was about 8:45 am, the sun comes up behind the Schreckhorn, at the back of us, starting to
light up the north side of Grindelwald
A little bit more at 9 am
and all the way by 9:30 am.
Today we decided to explore the lower valley and taking a boat ride on the Brinzersee, after all it is included in our tickets we bought yesterday. First we took the car down the hill to the Railroad station Grindelwald Grund about 250 yards.
All the red lines on this map are included with our tickets
for 6 days
On this map you see the boat route we took.
The start of our Monday journey at Grindelwald Grund
The train took us up to Grindelwald, just about a mile. We changed trains and had a beautiful ride to Interlaken Ost.
Here we just left Grindelwald
The gondolas to the Mannlichen we took the Day before.
The dare devils are up early this morning
Arriving in Interlaken we found the boat landing right across the station and very convenient only yards away. Because it is end of season, less boats are available for site seeing tours and unfortunately we had to wait about 2 hours for departure. No problem, a quick opportunity for our beloved ones to go shopping.
Tony and Amy are thinking of getting a new car.
This one was parked by the boat landing.
Waiting for the boat
It was nice and warm in the sun
On our way, just left Interlaken
Crossing path with on other excursion boat.
Getting ready for lunch
They served fresh local Egli fish filet and Amy and I had to try them.
We had nice crisp fresh salad with french dressing and
Donna had poulet with Tony ordering the Bratwurst.
Delicious!
The boat ride took close to 3 hours docking on several ports letting people in and out, with a half hour stop at Brienz. It was sensational being on this clean blue water with all this mountain surround us.
Approaching Boenigen
Great mansion in Boenigen
Coming up Giessbach
Behind the port you see the cable train going up to the Grand Hotel
The Grand Hotel
Picture perfect weather
Giessbach waterfalls
Enjoying the sun shine
Water skiing in the cold lake
I am about to order another beer
and so is Donna
We got back to Grindelwald in the train about 5:30 pm. Tony and Amy decided to walk down to the Bahnhof Grund, while Donna and I took the train down. They beat us by a few minutes because they took a dangerous, forbidden trail over some train tracks. Lucky they did not get arrested!!
Donna by the Kiosk back in Grindelwald
Tony and Amy already enjoying some Ice beer when I arrived in the restaurant
I like to share with everybody this giant umbrellas they have everywhere,
two are covering the entire outside restaurant.
After a few drinks at the restaurant we went to our home and fixed Knorr Swiss tomato soup and Nuessli salad with french dressing. We all relaxed with some Bacardi and coke before bed time.
Day 4 coming soon ;-)
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