{"id":873,"date":"2012-07-10T20:38:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T19:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=873"},"modified":"2025-11-23T06:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:15:57","slug":"farewell-to-beautiful-switzerland-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2012\/07\/10\/farewell-to-beautiful-switzerland-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Beautiful Switzerland\u2026.for now\u2026.."},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday morning and we packed up and said goodbye to the campsite with the best views so far; mind you, it was also the most expensive campsite so far, but absolutely worth every cent.\u00a0 The sun was shining again on the mountain tops; I know I really will miss this place and I cried as we left.<\/p>\n

First stop on today\u2019s trip was just around the corner at Gletscher Schlucht (glacier gorge).\u00a0 Still wearing shorts, we put on two layers of fleecy jumpers and paid to enter the chilly gorge.<\/p>\n

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Gletscher Schlucht<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Within 20 metres, the roar of the L\u00fctschine River is incredibly loud as all the melt water from the surrounding mountains and Unter Grindelwald Gletscher squeezes down through the very narrow gorge.\u00a0 The pathway leads you uphill, sometimes passing through tunnels and sometimes along metal walkways clinging to the rock face.<\/p>\n

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Gletscher Schlucht<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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At times, the top of the cliff above seems to touch the opposite side, which makes you feel like you are in an enormous cavern.\u00a0 The path continues for about a kilometre up the gorge and then you turn around and come back down.\u00a0 We warmed up with hot chocolate in the caf\u00e9 and when we got back to Eileen my ears were still ringing with the thundering sound of the river.<\/p>\n

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Gletscher Schlucht<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We drove back down to Wilderswil and turned up the valley through Lauterbrunnen to the end of the road at Stechelberg.<\/p>\n

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The view from Grund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This valley is so different to Grindelwald, being a massive U shape valley with lots of long waterfalls dropping down the western side.<\/p>\n

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The view from Stechelberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Lauterbrunnen Valley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We parked back down near Lauterbrunnen and\u00a0enjoyed a scenic\u00a0picnic before driving back down to Interlaken and along the Thuner Lake through Spiez to Thun.\u00a0 We need to be in Obernai tomorrow afternoon, so we decided to get some mileage under our belts and get up close to Basel for the night.\u00a0 We headed north through Bern, Solothur, Balsthal, Liestal and hit Basel in the evening rush hour.\u00a0\u00a0 It took us nearly five hours of driving from Lauterbrunnen to Huningue on the French \/ German \/ Swiss border (with a half hour stop, for a much needed cup of tea for the driver).<\/p>\n

As we headed north we noticed that the building style was changing again.\u00a0 There were no more picture book wooden chalets, they were now a more solid German style with enormous roofs.\u00a0 The land became flatter and more cultivated with corn and wheat, we even saw our very first fields of sunflowers in full bloom; always a beautiful sight to see.\u00a0 Oh and we\u2019ve seen more spectacular roundabouts, there was one in Thun that had the Titanic sinking in to the centre of a flowerbed\u2026\u2026had to get a picture of that one.<\/p>\n

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The Titanic sinking in a Thun roundabout !!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When we pulled in to Camping Au Petit Port on the banks of the Rhine in Huningue a thunderstorm exploded and we settled in for the evening in Eileen, now\u00a0back in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday morning and we packed up and said goodbye to the campsite with the best views so far; mind you, it was also the most expensive campsite so far, but absolutely worth every cent.\u00a0 The sun was shining again on the mountain tops; I know I really will miss this place and I cried […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8175,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/8175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}