Last weekend, Mami and Papi went away for the weekend! Thanks to a wonderful birthday present, Oma and Opa took care of Bigna and Andrin and Mami and Papi had their first weekend together since Andrin was born (!). After some careful thinking, they decided to go away and not stay home and be engulfed in all the projects that are still awaiting them at home. They went to a little village close to Meiringen called Rosenlaui. It is really remote and there is just this wonderful turn-of-the-century hotel and nothing else. But there are many opportunities to hike and enjoy the beautiful scenery. The weather was not perfect, but we enjoyed every minute of our get-away.
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| No visit to the alps without the famous Swiss postal cars. Here right in front of the hotel. |
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| The "angel peaks" - view from our hotel. This is how the weather looked like on Saturday morning. Please keep that in mind as you watch the next pictures! |
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| Detail from our hotel room. |
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| The dining room - a dinner without any interruptions and no spilled drinks .... |
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| The "living room". |
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| In the morning, the farmer herded his cows to a higher field - right in front of the hotel. |
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| The hotel. |
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| Some Edelweiss ... |
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| In the postal car to "Grosse Scheidegg" where we started our hike. |
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| It was really just the two of us ... |
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| At the start of our hike - raining and cold ... |
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| On our hike, called the "romantic hike". |
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| Mountain roses. |
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| And this is what it looked like after some hours of hiking ... beautiful weather! |
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| There was a water-powered saw mill that is still functioning. Impressive .... |
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| Clemens' Swiss lunch ... cheese on top of bred. |
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| Clemens after he ate his lunch ... |
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| Right next to the hotel is the entry to a deep glacier-carved canyon. (The glacier was actually visible from the hotel.) |
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| On Sunday, the day started rainy again. We went to two more waterfalls. This is in the tram to the Reichenbachfall. |
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| Reichenbachfall. |
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| And then we also went to the Giessbachfälle. |
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| And sat on the terrace of the beautiful Grand Hotel Giessbach. |
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| Clemens behind the impressive waterfall. |
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| Clemens tried his luck in front of the hotel, but not in this area ... guess why? |
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| Another genuine Swiss lunch ... Älplermagronä. We felt ourselves a little bit like tourists :) |
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| Brienzer See. |
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| Loved this new interpretation of the three monkeys ... this time with chicken and a rooster. |
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| A beautiful double rainbow on our way home to Muttenz after we picked up the children. |
