SKIing with the Peelings: A day of two circular tours

Morning - bus to Meiringen and train back to Grindelwald via Interlaken

So on a clear and cloudless morning we get the bus from our hotel over the pass to Meiringen ( dotted then solid yellow on the map. It is a single track road with hairpin bend after hairpin bend. The views are spectacular but difficult to take pictures through the bus windows.

The clever Swiss put two buses on the first bit of the route to cope with loadings and we are on the second bus.

At the top of the pass one bus turns back to Grindelwald (ours) so we transfer to the other and get a chance for a few photos!

So off down the other side: soon the driver starts using his Alpine Horn and we find out why: a bus is due in the opposite direction!

More hairpin bends down into Meiringen, one needing a double take.
Quick look around Meiringen before going to the station for our train to Interlaken.

Last time we were at Meiringen there were no platforms and you just walked across the tracks to get to the train. It has now been rebuilt with two proper platforms.

Pretty run to Interlaken around Lake Brienz, again picture through glass not the best! Old trains had opening windows: not so on these otherwise nice new ones.

At Interlaken we get the nice old rack railway back to Grindelwald with views taken through open windows!

Back to the hotel for lunch and then by bus to the Mannlichen cable car which takes around 30 minutes to reach its summit where there are views back to Grindelwald,

but also down the other side to Wengen

Instead of going back down the same way we opted for a 90 minute walk to Kleine Scheidegg.

Along the walk we get great views of the Eiger

and here the Eiger on the left, Munch in the middle and the Jungfrau on the right

We stopped for a few pictures on the way!

Notice no coats and dark specs: the weather was simply fab!

So at Kleine Scheidegg. with its posh hotels we get the very steep rack railway

back to Grindelwald.

A long day with plenty of walking, but just enough energy after dinner to walk out of Grindelwald to get some views of the mountains and outskirts in the evening light!