7th December 2005 (Wednesday) – Grindelwald/Zurich/Luzern

We got up at 0515hrs to catch the 0552hrs train to Jungfraujoch at 0846hrs (via Grindelwald). It was snowing outside. But when we got to Grindelwald, the weather forecast for Jungfraujoch was not very good and we changed our plans.

We went back to Interlaken East and went shopping at Co-op. We bought SF30.55 worth of stuff. We went to Zurich HB by the Golden Pass Route which boasted good sceneries. We sat on the right. It was drizzling when we reached Zurich. It was a upmarket city. There were a lot of shops selling watches. We went into one and checked out the watches and hoping that we would get one of the spoons they give out as souvenirs. Nope, we did not receive any. We bought a packet of hot chestnuts (SF4.10) along our stroll towards the end of the main street which was near to the lake. We saw different kinds of birds, among them were geese and mandarin ducks, lazing around and we took out our bread and fed some to them. They were not afraid of human beings as they came real close to us. We made our way back to the station and along the way we saw a very long queue. It seems that they were queuing for some circus performance.

We traveled to Lucern from Zurich. The train that we took was a double-decked one that looks like an aeroplane. We find that Lucern is much nicer and more interesting than Zurich. We walked across the bridge (which had a lot of pictures hung on the roof). I think a part of the bridge was burnt down previously. Dac and I carved our names on the ledge of the bridge. We then went to a watch shop. Saw a Tag Heuer for Dac but it was a blue face one. We preferred one with a black face. It was a pity that they did not have one with a black face.


We checked out another watch shop and made our way to see the Lion Monument. There was a tour group from Hong Kong when we were there. We learnt that the lion had a longer tail than usual from the tour guide. Some locals were putting up Christmas decorations and I wanted to take a picture with one of the deco when the local also wanted to take the picture with me.

We walked around and went into a shopping mall with a Co-op in it. We bought bread and milk (SF2.90). We strolled back to the train station slowly and took the train back to our hostel at Lauterbrunnen

We cooked a hot and nice dinner when we got back to the hostel. We had to use the kitchen downstairs as the one on our level was being used. We made full use of the kitchen facilities. We had mushroom soup, instant spaghetti and rosti. Dac’s rosti turned out to be like mashed potatoes. The orange juice from co-op did not taste as nice as the one from Venice. After the satisfying dinner, we went back to our room and packed our stuff for tomorrow. We did something romantic again before going to bed.