I want to post these trip reports before I forget the info I want to share that might help a fellow traveler. I also want say that there were Switzerland travelers that were on this site that helped me SO MUCH……Carrie, Pat, Laurel, Carol, Nigel…….THANK YOU! It’s been fun reading your posts and getting great tips from you!
Day 1: our travel to Zurich was uneventful…….flew from Nashville through Detroit and everyone was kind through all of the Covid
protocol……I think I did mention in an earlier post that it all seems to depend on the agent you come in contact with and what
they are willing to ask you for……masks on the flight over were not too bad though our flight from Amsterdam to Zurich
with KLM was WAY TOO CROWDED….….packed in like sardines! All we needed anywhere was our passport and our CDC vac
cards……we had taken a negative test 2 days before leaving but no one wanted to see it.
Day 2: trained with the Swiss Travel Pass from Zurich to Lauterbrunnen….a kind SBB employee helped us with his app at the Zurich
train station since our portable wifi we had rented for 2 weeks was waiting for us at our first hotel. Nice train ride, no
problem….tho I have mentioned earlier that bought back in July with a 25% off deal I would not again spend any $ on the first
class ticket……very few times could we even tell the difference. We checked in Hotel Silberhorn….a delight and great location
and a delicious breakfast each morning. They checked our CDC cards every morning before eating……could have just put a
sticker on our room key and made life easier as other hotels did but…..??? Hard to describe that feeling waking up every
morning to that view of the valley………GORGEOUS…….and a sweet little family of 5 goats ringing their bells every morning
when you wake up…..I loved the bells EVERYWHERE‼️We hiked the Mannlichen to Kleine Schdeigge route the first day and
the weather was wonderful. Pay extra and stand on the TOP of the gondola from Wengen to Mannlichen! Ran in to a young
woman restocking her family’s chees frig ON THE TRAIL….still trying to figure that one out and she was kind. The walk back
down to Wengen was steep and tricky…..my legs were not ready for that! Will try a flatter route next time.
Day 3: church in the sweet English-speaking chapel in Wengen in the pouring rain…….delightful….and then a good day to take the
Golden Pass train from Interlaken to Montreux and back. Got to the front of the train with the all-window bubble and though
it was cloudy and rainy we had a great afternoon ride. We figured we could not do anything else in the rain so we might as
well be on a train, enjoying the view…passed through Gstaad and it was fun to see these places through the train
windows…..got off in Montreux long enough to buy a snack and back home to Lauterbrunnen.
Day 4: the rain on Sunday produced snow on Monday….so our favorite Mannlichen/KS hike was covered in snow for the first
part….carefully dodging any ice and we took off…amazing that the same route 2 days before was completely clear!!! By
midday everything was melting and we decided to explore the other side of the valley……took the gondola and train to
Murren and enjoyed fondue that night….Murren looked a ghost town that afternoon on this overcast rainy day….where were
people???
Day 5: the weather report was great for the next 3 days…..took the day trip to Hotel Geissbach by boat from Interlaken……A MUST
DO. What a treat…..rode the funicular up to the hotel after a gorgeous boat ride and ate lunch on the terrace overlooking the
falls…had a reservation but don’t think its necessary. Walked that lovely trail back to Iselwaldt.