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A Day in the Alps! 🇨🇭

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  Our vacation is drawing near its close, but today was an ambitious one as we explored the area that surrounds us in this Alpine playground.    We started our day by boarding a cable car in Wengen (altitude 4180 ft.) and riding it up to a station called Mannlichen at an altitude of 7687 ft.    There was a mandatory (so Debbie told me) climb that we had to undertake on foot to attain the summit once we alit from the cable car.    We had spectacular views of Jungfrau, Eiger, Monch and who knows how many other prominent Alps as we surveyed from our lofty perch.    We could see Wengen below us, Lauterbrunnen below that, and the base of the Lauterbrunnen Valley.    There were tour helicopters in the air several thousand feet below us. Debbie had tears in her eyes at the splendour of it all.      Once we’d soaked in enough of the views from Mannlichen, we took a gondola across the valley to the town of Grindewald.  ...
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Lauterbrunnen and Wengen 🇨🇭🏔️

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  Today was another stellar day enjoying Mother Nature’s eye candy here in Switzerland.    We left our hotel in Lucerne early to head to the train station to get some more use of our Swiss Rail Pass.    The days objective was Wengen, an Alpine village accessible only by rail.    We needed three trains to get there but that proved not to be a problem.    We learned on the first leg of our journey that you don’t necessarily have to book a ticket on one of    Switzerland’s scenic rail routes to experience amazing scenery.    The lakes between Lucerne and Interlaken were of a colour that defies description, so we’ve attached pictures.    In Interlaken, we boarded a train and had to be careful which end of the train we sat on.    Part way through its journey, at a place called Zweilutschinen (which cannot be used in a game of Scrabble because it is capitalized), this train split itself in two….one half going...
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