Switzerland 2018: Day 9


Today was a travel day.  We packed everything all up and headed out to Lauterbrunnen which is in the Interlaken area.  We took a train to Tasch and then got a rental car and drove the 2.5 hours to our new location.  Both kids slept in the car which was nice.

The views along the drive were amazing so here are some cruddy car window pictures.  The coolest part is there is a train that goes through a tunnel in the middle of the alps.  You drive your car on to the train and then park your car and then the train drives you through the tunnel.  It is so cool!  The last car and the car in front of the engine is open on one side and that is flush with the platform so you drive on and off the train via that car.  The first car pulls all the way up and each car pulls right up to the car in front and when the train gets to the other side you all drive off.  I thought this was a really interesting solution so that they didn’t have to make a second tunnel.

These pictures are all from the car train.


Driving onto the car train.

Still driving to the front of the train.

We parked behind this van.

Driving off at the other end.


Lauterbrunnen is in a beautiful valley in the Jungfrau region.  Big mountains, waterfalls, glaciers.  Its pretty awesome.  We took a short walk along a gravel path to dinner and had some fantastic food.  Jeff and I each had a bowl of pumpkin soup which was amazing and split the 3 meat platter which was ibex, boar and venison.  It was REALLY good.  Wren was super happy since we let her order off of the kids menu instead of sharing with us.  She had chicken nuggets for the first time and french-fries.  She was excellent at dinner tonight.  Flynt was not.  Poor guy was having a rough evening so Jeff and I had to take turns eating and dancing around with him.  He seems to be a little congested today.  Hopefully he feels better tomorrow.







I might be in for a rough night.  TTFN…

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