Best night’s sleep yet. Having the skylight open let in cool mountain air all night long that made being tucked under a thick comforter a pleasure. The Nespresso machine for guests in the kitchen allowed me to get up around 7am and have a coffee while writing my day 6 blog. The pictured coffee is my second of which I enjoyed on the large porch at Esther’s Guesthouse.
No plans at all today other than breakfast at 8:30am. Typical European breakfast with croissants, various breads, cheeses and meats, hard boiled eggs, yogurt and fruit. The star of breakfast was the cheese made here in Gimmelwald. We bought some of it yesterday. God it’s good.
After breakfast and a shower we decided we’d like to look at the mountains for a while. That is pretty much the entrainment here and I think I could easily spend the rest of our vacation doing just that.
We asked our host Tobias to suggest a 20-30 minute stroll and he gave us a route that took us above the village of Gimmelwald. Because of the changing cloud cover the views would constantly change as well, the tallest peaks hiding behind a cloud bank then popping out. It was quite a show.
The mountains’ back up singers were a group of waterfalls that we could hear our entire walk.
As we made our way along the path we got higher and more mountains were revealed by the new angles and the shifting clouds.
Gimmelwald sits on one side of the valley just below Mürren which was where we decided to go after our stroll. We needed some groceries and had a couple of punches left on our gondola ticket.
Mürren is around 1000’ higher than Gimmelwald so the same mountains changed again.
We grabbed some groceries for lunch but then Mike has the brilliant idea to have lunch in Mürren and eat our groceries for dinner rather than eat at Pension Gimmelwald again. We ate at The Edelweiss Hotel, drawn in by the sign advertising apple strudel with vanilla sauce.
Mürren was a touristy little town. It lacked the charm of Gimmelwald but I could see someone wanting a less rustic place with the same views wanting to stay there. I’ll take Gimmelwald over Mürren any day.
We may or may not have found some really pricey Freitag messenger bags that we really liked before lunch and decided not to get them because they were too expensive. And we may or may not have gone back to the shop after lunch to get the bags after talking ourselves into them during lunch. Who knows? It’s a mystery.
It started to rain so we took the gondola back down to Gimmelwald and headed back to the room. With the skylight open we could hear the rain. Then all of the sudden a steam like mist began to drift in through the window. A glance out the window showed that a cloud was passing through the Guesthouse and some of it was sneaking into our room. Neat.
I took a quick nap. then made myself a cup of coffee and returned to the porch.
We had such great weather for our time here. This was made abundantly clear by the clouds and rain that carried on throughout the rest of the afternoon and evening. Bits of the mountains were still visible from time to time but nothing like we’d seen in the morning.
Mike stayed in the room to rest while I went out to see the misty mountains and get a Gimmelwald smoked sausage that would serve as part of our dinner.
For dessert, some Swiss chocolate.
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