Jungfrau, cycling and cheese fondue

Here they are: some impressions of our last trip to Switzerland. We're lucky that we have cool friends living there, so we got quite some nice tips of places to visit. Click on the images to go to the album. For more holiday pics, just contact me to get the holiday-url.

What did we do:

• From Grindelwald (1034m) going up with the longest gondelbahn of Europe to Manlichen at 2225m from where we could see the Eiger, Monich and Jungfrau summits. Then following the Romantic route downwards to the mountain restaurant at Alpiglen for a Rosti with Bratwurst. Via Brandegg we continued the downhill track back to Grindelwald.
• The hotel offered us some great BMC MTBs to use; so we planned a trip to the lake at Biel via on and off road tracks.
• A visit to Aareschlucht where we could walk along the paths in the narrow gorge. For the ones who are interested: click here for some extra Wikipedia info :-)
  
• A quick drivethrough Lauterbrunnen and the valley of the 72 waterfalls.
• Relaxing at the lake of Biel.
• After having a stop in Interlaken, a nice small town with lots of shops (especially Victorinox), places to have a drink, etc. (quite touristic though), we went to Etang de la Gruere. A calm lake in the Jura, with a nice and quite easy walking path. The setting reminded me of the movie Lake Placid :-D I was waiting for the croc to show up...

What we did not do and is on the list for a next visit:

• lunch at resto Piz Gloria at Shilthorn, where scenes from James Bond were taken for On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
• hiking trip to Eigenergletscher
• Zurich
• ...

Cool Swiss food stuff that we experienced: rosti with bratwurst, cheese fondue, open air portable bbq with sausages on a large wooden skewer, apfelschorle, meringue (didn't know it had Swiss roots: click here) and of course toblerone.