Day 22 - Zurich to Interlaken

We got up early (again) and hit the train station with the boys from Wake and caught the 10am train from Zurich to Interlaken. The train we were on was pretty sweet and was a double decker. All the trains in Europe have actually been really nice and modern compared to Canadian ones. Same as the buses and subways too actually.

Anyways, we got to Interlaken around 1ish. Once again, absolutely gorgeous place. Zurich was nice, but i was a little disappointed cause it wasn't surrounded by mountains like Innsbruck was. Interlacken, though, is exactly what i thought Switzerland would look like. Interlaken is a small town in the middle of the Alps and its the central hug for extreme sports in Switzerland.

We're staying at Balmer's hostel. It's a pretty sweet place with 400 beds, two bars, and all kinds of shit to do. Soon as we got here, we dropped off our stuff and the 4 of us hit the grocery store and then wandered around town. Interlaken only has a population of about 15 thousand, so walking around town is no problem. We decided we'd head for the big white mountains and so we found a path and headed up into the mountains. Some pretty incredible views and tons of cows with huge bells around their necks. Everywhere we went, all we could hear was the sound of bells. We walked through the mountains for about 4 hours, and then headed back to the hostel just in time for happy hour at the bar.

The hostel has 2 for 1 beers from 6 till 7 in the bar upstairs and then from 9 till 10 in the bar downstairs. We happened to run into this Aussie, Phil, that we met in Innsbruck, so we had some pints with him, adn then grabbed some Thai food with him, and then back and partied downstairs for the rest of the night.

Canyoning tomorrow!