We picked up our car (a VW "Polo" diesel) - it drives great, but it is really quite tiny. This has it's advantages, however, given some of the very narrow roads we've ventured down so far. Wednesday was a miserable weather day - dull & gray in Amsterdam, and dull & gray & rainy in Geneva. From Geneva, we headed to Interlaken - we are here until May 6th. We have a very nice room at the Royal St. Georges hotel - right on the 'main drag'. This is a great old hotel with lots of great character. We lucked out with a corner room on the '2nd' floor (which is really the 3rd!) with two small balconies overlooking the main drag with a view towards the Jungfrau.
Thursday morning dawned bright and sunny. We headed out in the Jungfraubahn train system towards Jungfraujoch - the highest altitude rail station in Europe. We took three trains to reach the top. Two were narrow gauge cog railways - it is unbelievable the incline angles they take, and they were an amazing experience. The scenery was absolutely spectacular ( I'll continue trying to post some pictures, but have to say I'm having some issues uploading via my IPad - basically, I just can't do it yet!). The highest altitude we reached was just over 11,300 feet above sea-level. Thankfully, we didn't encounter any altitude sickness, though breathing could be a bit difficult with anything strenuous - guess it takes a few days to acclimatize. It was a spectacular and very full day - we returned to Interlaken around 7:00 pm - quite exhausted
Today's forecast was for mixed sun and cloud, with chance of thunderstorms. Again, it dawned bright and clear. We'll post more on today later, as our online time is almost up, but it was another great day. We travelled a funicular to a great viewing site above Interlaken ( which I should have explained above is a town between two lakes), and spent a good part of the day driving through mountain passes and valleys. Absolutely breath-taking.
Until tomorrow ...
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