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| I love Bern! Secret path under autumn leaves... |
Beautiful bridge over Bern's beautiful river |
View from Bern's church tower (geraniums...VERY continental!) |
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| and THIS is the entrance to my hostel in Gimmelwald |
...coolest place I've ever stayed!! |
Chamois!!!! teeming across the mountain as I walked up |
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| the chamois and I cross paths |
Looking back down the valley I came up to the Eiger (left), the Jungfrau (right), and the one in the middle whose name I always forget |
Looking The Other Way |
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| Nice wanderweg |
The Eiger seen from the top of the Schilthorn |
Choucas!!! - the lovely mountain birds translated (perhaps dubiously?) by Wikipedia as "jackdaw" |
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| Self portrait just before snow & lack of companions forced a cable car ride for the last few hundred metres |
Nice geomorphology (with a backdrop of classic mountaineering routes) |
Ohhhhh to be a choucas! |
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| Happy choucas (they always look like they're having fun!) |
Cloud-parallel choucas |
Did I mention I like birds? |
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| Looking back towards Gimmelwald from the funicular train to Jungfraujoch |
Nice geomorphology on the way up |
The Eiger, shortly before the train disappears to tunnel up through it! |
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| Glacier from Junfraujoch (a very high place served by a train. VERY continental) |
Apparently the fluffy feathers of this choucas are called "doona" in German, making the Australian word for duvet seem just fractionally less bizarre |
I walked down from just below the Eiger, check out the train! |
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| People are small... the Eiger is NOT! |
Well, let's try and fence it in anyway... |
Signs on the way down |
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| Self-portrait #2: "Mystorii Zoonu" |
Ah, the juxtaposition |
Self-portrait #3: "The madness of snowmaking" |
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| Feeling at home as I start out from Zermatt towards the Matterhorn! |
Said Matterhorn |
Awesome glacier next to the Monte Rosa (to the left) |
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| More chamois! On a precipitous glacier-side path |
Cairns & the Monte Rosa, from 3100m!! |
As Mo Turnbull once said, "It's real bicycle country up there" |
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| Self-portrait #4: "Taken by a random, gatecrashed by a choucas" |
Church type thing at 3100m |
Very James Bond |
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| Matterhorn seen from Zermatt |
Castle in Bellinzona, Ticino (the Italian part of Svizzera!) |
Good gracious, your ramparts are audacious |
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| A good tree to read a book under (and I did) |
Said tree peeks alluringly from behind a rather classique doorway |
A second castle! With grapevines! |
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| I never worked out the singnificance of the wriggly red line |
The reading tree, and its capacious lawn |
Un espresso, per favore |
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| Il castello |
Steps in the air |
Last view of Bellinzona |
