Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Top of Europe

Tue, Aug 20, 2024

Wow. What a day. 

We had breakfast and went to the bus for our tour of Interlaken and Grindelwald. We had paid $120 each for the tour.  When we got on the bus, we found our that our tour was basically walking around the two towns. There was an option to take the train to Jungfraujoch, Top of Europe. We only had to come up with 360 Swiss francs. Our guide, Beatrice was very positive and assured us that we can work it out.  So, at Interlaken, we ran to find an ATM machine and arranged a place for the bus to pick us up to continue to the train station. My self imposed withdrawal limit did not allow me to get 400 Swiss francs. So, I got 260. I still had 30 Euros. And I had $120. Lynn didn't have a debit card and not enough dollars. So, the whole trip came to about $300 each. It was worth every dollar, euro and Swiss franc. 

Pictures from inside the bus. 

Here I am frantically trying to get Swiss francs! 
The ATM and this fountain is all we saw of Interlaken. 

We got on the train at Lauterbrunnen.

We got off the train and waited a few minutes for the cog train at Kleine Scheidegg.

The cog train made one stop so we could take pictures of the glacier. 

Pictures from the top of Jungfraujoch. 
Best sandwich lunch spot of the trip!

We walked (carefully) through the ice cave.

We walked outside on the glacier. 
We took the gondola down to Grindelwald. 



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