Grindelwald

Sunday 5th of December

Today we rose fairly early so that we could hopefully catch a train to Jungfraujoch, supposedly the highest village in Europe at around 3400m high (about 1200m higher than Mt Kosciusko). Unfortunately when we went to buy tickets we found out that the combined journey to Jungfraujoch was over 500 franks. Because of this we decided just to go to Grindelwald, a village at the base of some massive mountains, which are a popular ski destination.

Once we reached Grindelwald we decided to have a wander around to see what we could find. In the end we decided to hire two toboggans and go to a spot recommended to us by the hire place just near the base of a ski run. They drove us up to the location and told us we had to get ourselves down, which seemed daunting at the time (we would later discover a shortcut down some old ski runs which now had a few houses on them and tobogganed down those) We then spent two or more hours tobogganing down various slopes and having a really fun time. Once we returned the toboggans back we went to the local sports centre to see what was happening (some of us with the hope of seeing some curling, a sport like lawn bowls but on ice, but which never really happened), which was figure skating, much to the enjoyment of Gemma but not really Jonathan and I.

After this we had to catch the train back at 4:19 or face waiting another hour for the next one. When we arrived home we watched the Swiss news, which had add breaks with ads not much different to Australian ones.

I posted this at the same time as the 7th of December

P.S. One of the guys at the hire place told us he heard on the news that there was heaps of flooding in NSW. Sounds a lot like last year. Waiting from confirmation from friends who live near Coffs Harbour where the flooding was last year and for them to tell us how bad it really is. How much is it raining in Sydney?