Day 19 - Lauderbrunnen, Switzerland

Had breakfast at the hotel and then took the bus to the gondola to ride four different gondolas up to Schiltorn (10,000 ft). There is a revolving restaurant up there and it was the setting for the James Bond movie from about 1968 called “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.” They have a movie in the “touristorama” at the top that shows a lot of scenes from the Bond movie. The view up there was unbelievable and it was such a clear day. There are peaks that you can see have glaciers on them, but right where we were, there was no snow. We took tons of pictures all around the top and then went in and had Swiss hot chocolate in the revolving restaurant.

Then we took the gondola down one stop to Muren (5361 ft.) and hiked from there over to Grutschalp (1879 ft.), which took about an hour and a half. There was a lot of nice scenery along the way.

We rode the gondola from Grutschalp down to Lauderbrunnen and grabbed some lunch from a little take out place. Then, we spent a little bit of time walking around the town of Lauderbrunnen.

There is a neat cemetery there in Lauderbrunnen where all the graves are covered in flowers. The families do all the caretaking of these graves and they are so pretty and tidy.

We rode the bus back up to the hotel area at about 3:30 and rested up a little while, updating the blog and walking around a little bit.  It has gotten cool here in the Alps.  We are having dinner all together again tonight in the hotel restaurant.  Then, tomorrow morning off to Beaune, France!