Interlaken

Lauterbrunnen is the town in the valley below Wengen. Having stayed in Lauterbrunnen before, I knew where there was an internet cafe. So I guessed I would quickly be able to find us a hotel in Geneva (this was on the way to Paris our next planned destination). WRONG!! No website would allow me to book on the day of arrival. I called the tourist office as well as about 10 hotels to find all but one was booked out and the only rooms available were 2 dbls at $460 per night. Now while we were bloody happy not to be staying at the dragon lady's joint we didnt want to pay this much.

So it was back to finding a bed somewhere else. We decided to try Interlaken as it looked quite pretty (and civilised) on our way through the day before. We had luck after a couple of tries and we ended up finding a good hotel and where the people and service were great. We were happy to find that there were Swiss with personalities.

We enjoyed a lovely stroll along the lake and caught our breath again. The water was running quite rapidly and very high as there was lots of snow melt. Even though I was here a month later in the year than on my previous visit, it was still quite cool. Not unpleasantly cold for us Melbourner's though!!