Geneva

Peugeot´s new limo, yes the grass is real.

Shiny chrome Toyota Auris (our next Corolla)

A very economical Hummer H3

This fountain is over 135m tall

After leaving Interlaken we decided on going to Geneva. We changed our minds on where we were going to head about 10 times. The main reason we wanted to go to Geneva was because the 77th international motor show was on, it is suppose to be the best in the world and a lot of car makers leave it until Geneva to release new models. We saw lots of new release models, some nice and some irrelevant to us in Australia. We spent 5 hours at the motor show and still didn't see every thing, the place is huge. The car makers spend heaps on making their stands the biggest and the best. My favourite was the Jeep stand with a really cool water feature, I have a short movie on my phone for those who want to see it when we get home.

The hostel we stayed at in Geneva was good, it also had cooking facilities that we used as the restaurants and take away were still expensive, (we thought it may have been cheaper in the bigger city)

interlaken and jungfraujoch

About to get on the Jungfraubahn.
Snow in our hair on Junfraujoch -11.2 degrees Jungfraujoch from train station.

Our hostel that we are staying in

After leaving Lucerne we hopped onto the Panoramic view train to Interlaken, all the carriages were the normal except the carriage that we chose. It had the glass curve up over us as the ceiling. The train trip was great with a fantastic view of all the snow covered mountains and the most beautiful green-grey lakes you have ever seen.

We found our accommodation very quickly which was good and it was only a 10 minute walk from the train station. The backpackers hostel is the best set out we have been to since we have been in Europe, it is called Hostel Sonnenhauff. It has a great kitchen as well, which is good as food is very expensive, so we are cooking our meals.

Today we went to Jungfraujoch and that was awesome, the view from the top is spectacular, it is the highest mountain in all of Europe it is 3571 metres high from the viewing platform. You can see for a really long way from the top. It was basically a full day tour starting at Interlarken and doing a big circle to come back at around 5.00 p.m. We went outside on the glacier and the wind was about 45 km/h and it was blowing snow over us and gave us white hair. You could only stay outside for a short time at -11 degrees and then we had to come back in. Anyway tomorrow we are leaving, we are actually unsure at this point in time where we will go to. So for now we will say bye and chat on the next blog.

lucerne

The chapel bridge
Bronte being a child in the snow!!

At the top of Mt Pilatus

Our attempt at a snow man

The sleeping lion monument

Well we arrived in Lucern in the afternoon and we headed straight to the youth hostel. Once we got our room organised we headed out to get lunch. We had a bit of a look around the town and went to the tourist information centre to get some ideas on what to do.

We went to the tourist information at 9.00 a.m. the next morning and got tickets to go to Mt Pilatus. It was fantastic, the day was awesome and the view spectacular. You had to catch two gondolas that were small ones with just us in them and then one really large one that holds about 30 people to go the last 5 minutes. The last one goes really fast and really steep and you feel like you are going to die. Alas we did not!

It was -3 degrees when we arrived on the top but the sun was out and I even managed to get sun burnt. We spent about 2 hours up the top before we decided to come down.

Tomorrow we head to Interlarken, and I hope we get good weather for Jungfraujoch.