Well, here I am sitting on another train for the day. Not too long of a trip fortunately. I’m on my way to Innsbruck, Austria after a few days with Kelly in Switzerland. Needless to say, Switzerland is beautiful and Interlaken was a really nice town. We stayed at a great hostel and rented bikes to get around. Unfortunately I spent most of the time fighting off a cold so I wasn’t on top of my game, but I’m finally better now. Interlaken is a great place to go if you’re into action/adventure type activities it turns out. There are paragliders, skydivers, and bungee jumpers all over the place, and advertisements for canyoning, kayaking, hang-gliding everywhere you turn. We stuck to the bicycles. We rode to Lake Thun , which was picture perfect. Sailboats, families picnicking, and blue water surrounded by mountains. I’m actually pretty bummed that I only spent about four days in Switzerland. I know there is a lot more to see there, but I’m getting so crunched for time…
The Tent Village!
The last night at our hostel they put on a film competition. Mostly locals with their gopros doing some extreme sporting, and the winner got $300. I wish I could have entered something but I didn’t have time. Actually, that night we had nowhere to stay because EVERYTHING affordable in Interlaken (and all the cool towns between there and Innsbruck) was completely booked. Kelly couldn’t find any trains back to Italy so we were pretty stuck, but our new friend Ashley, who works at the Tent Village, let us crash in her room at Balmers :) Thank goodness for her.
In about two hours I’ll catch one last train and bus to my hostel where I hope to cook some spaghetti, my cheap meal of choice. Ohhh how I miss the hostels in Australia and New Zealand, where they always had kitchens and a crowd of people making food much fancier than my spaghetti.