Sunday: Jungfraujoch - the top of Europe - the opportunity to take a series of cog wheel driven trains to a height of 3500 metres to view three 4000 metre giants known as Jungfrau, Monch and Eiger.
View from the train as it makes its way up for two hours.
Grindelwald ski resort, part way up the Jungfrau journey.
Taken through the train window.
On top of Europe.
Petrified in the Ice Palace!
The polar variety, I presume!
No idea what Sherlock was doing here!
Not cold, just freezing.
On the plateau.
Stop indeed; where was I going to go?
Views of the Jungfrau from Interlaken.
Monday: Today, we ride some 25 klm along one of the two lakes between which Interlaken sits. Lake Brienz is truly scenic. Our mission is to attend Ballenberg - an open air ethnographic museum that lays out a history of Swiss life through a series of buildings that span hundreds of years.
Views of Lake Brienz as we make our way to Ballenberg
The tiny village of Istalwald, on the edge of Brienz See
More pictures of Istalwald
The Grand Hotel Giessbach conjures visions of Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel - it suddenly appeared beside the trail on the edge of the lake.
The waterfall faces the grand hotel, behind which is the scenic Brienzsee (lake)
A kind of unforced Disneyland, whatever that is?
City of Brienz from the other side of the lake.
Buildings have been transplanted from all over Switzerland to the Balenberg open air museum.
This tiny church was the first exhibit we came across.
A 50 metre long shed used for rope making
Dozens of homes, dating from from about the tenth century to modern renovations, dotted the hills at Ballenberg.
A collection of Swiss chooks lent authenticity to the buildings
Some of the surrounding forest was amazing ........
As were the surrounding hills
A thunderstorm on the way home meant catching a train in order to try and stay dry. Michael was left holding the bikes and the baby!
