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Trails & Mountains
The Swiss mountains have us back again. This time, we decided to hike in the mountains in Valais near Zermatt, and we got us another quite adventurous trail straight up a mountain called Weisshorn. With an altitude of 4505 m (appr. 14.800 ft), the Weisshorn is the forth highest mountain in the Swiss Alps. Usually, alpine rock and glacier climbers hike up the mountain to a cabin near the top in order to set out in the wee hours of the following morning (that’s usually no later than 3 am) to climb through ice and snow up to the very peak. We, however, made the Weisshorn mountain cabin our hiking destination for the day. After a rainy previous day, weather conditions began to change when we left home early this morning, and by the time we reached the car train we could see the sky turning blue. (Yes, you read correctly: a car train is a train on which you drive with your car, and it takes you through a very very long tunnel across …
Alpine Tour: Weißhorn-Hike – Day 1
Checking Out Berne
We’ve been busy these last two days. Busy, because we’re getting ready for the next adventure – another two-day Alpine hike in Switzerland. Exciting? Yes, but it means that we’ve spent hours today and yesterday to check out places and trails that would make a good hike. Aside from that, however, we also had a chance to check out Berne, and we had fun eating a Swiss-German chocolate fondue (the equipment was Swiss, the chocolate – how sad is that – was German)! Berne:
Berne
Into the Depths of the Black Forest
Our goal today was to visit Hell’s Valley, a gorge in the heart of the Black Forest. Now, we didn’t end up quite there, I believe (we kind of took the wrong turn), but we did end up somewhere in the depths of the Black Forest. And if not as “gorgeous” as Hell’s Valley, it was still a pretty place. Here are more pictures of our trip (though sadly I forgot to bring along my camera, so they’re whatever my phone was able to handle):
Flowers, an Island, and Butterflies
Lake Constance. It’s the largest lake in Germany (though admitted, we share it with two other countries – Switzerland and Austria). And since Lake Constance is pretty big, it even has a couple of islands, one of them being Mainau, which actually is owned by Swedish nobility. And Mainau is a place of flowers, gardens, a castle, rare and exotic plants, and a butterfly house. Reason enough, the family thought, to spend a beautiful summer day at Lake Constance and on Mainau island.
Island of Flowers – Mainau (Lake Constance)
Ready for Take-Off
After a crazy busy day yesterday, I was finally ready for take-off today. Not quite looking forward to a 30-hour journey, but at least I’m going to be rewarded with a summer among family and friends. A summer enjoying cheese and chocolate spread, and all the things you can’t easily get while away. I’ll keep you posted with what’s going on this summer. But for now I’m up up and away!
Road Trip
Credits: Leaving on a Jet Plane by Kristin Cronin-Barrow & Shawna Clingerman Font: DJB I Feel Happy by Darcy Baldwin Skyline stitches done with a mommyish photoshop action Scraplift of Travel Girl