About a year ago Jim bought at the Richardson Methodist Hospital Gala a trip called the 007 Experience. Visiting places in Europe that 007 movies have been filmed... Interlaken, Switzerland,
Venice, Italy and Monoco... And now we're off. Can't wait to meet up with Daniel Craig.
We had been trying to get on business class for many months. At the last moment we made it. We haven't flown in a long time in business. They have really changed the cabins up. Woo Hoo!
After the flight over and many train changes we arrive in Interlaken. Not really knowing what we should do. While wandering the streets of the city we finally found out that the movie "Her Majesty's Sercret Service" Was filmed and responsible for the finishing of the Schilthorn Resturant and observation deck. The next morning we went to a travel agent across from the hotel. We met a most interesting lady, Elvira who became our advisor on what and how to do things during our stay.
Loaded with train tickets and cable car tickets we were headed to Schilthorn and a date with 007.
It doesn't seem possible that this little cable car will make it up to that little station. Thank goodness it does. Cause it is one long way down.
How the cable actually wind it's way up to the facility at the top of the mountain is amazing.
On the observation deck outside is a cut out of George Lazenby. He only played 007 once but he had an incredible location.
Below is the Eiger( you may knows from the Cllimt Eastwood movie "The Eiger Sanction",Monach, and the Jaungfrau (the highest point in Europe).
I could not pass up the 007 Burger. Thank goodness it looked cool. Because it was one huge heavy piece of beef.
This is the cable car we will be riding in to head back down the mountain. It is headed right into the clouds.
The town of Murren is one of the villages we stop in to switch from one cable to another. We did it going up and going down
We stopped in Murren and had a drink. They have many different kinds of fountains in the city.
This is one of those big natural fountains that Mother Nature manage to come up with.
We took this photo because of Montag. It made us think of our good buddy Sam Montag. Didn't know his last name meant Monday in Swiss. So this is the end of our day and we will go back to see Elvira to plan our next days outing.
Up the next morning, we knew we didn't want to go to the mountains again. Elvira suggest we go on the boat to a village Giessbach. There are beautiful waterfalls there and from there we could go to a village called Brienz and back by train or boat. We pay for boat tickets and off we go. While waiting for the boat this lady came by with her 2 Yorkies in a basket. Around the corner she let them out and they wandered down the path.
Jim has become very patient and enjoys waiting for the boat.
The boat is decorated really pretty and lots of people load up on it. The trip takes about an hour. It stops along the way. Picks people up and some get off. We make 3 stops all total.
We are on our way to the other end of Thunersee Lake.
We could not help but to get a picture of this Dallas Cowboys hat this fellow was wearing.
This is the oldest cog wheel cable car in Switzerland. It was built in 1839. They charge quite a bit to use it. But it keeps it running.
Above are the falls we came all the way to see. We saw that there was a walking path that crisscrosses it and we decided to walk/hike the path to Breinz. Yes walk it. Those who know me know I'm not a big fan of walking let along hiking. This was acutally a lot of fun. We made it into Breinz in about an hour and fourteen minutes with a ten minute break. Below was the signs that gave directions and time for where ever you wanted to hike.
It was a beautiful hike. Up, up and then down
The milk cans on the side of the road brought back memories for Jim. His father had a trucking company that picked up the milk cans from the Amish in his community when he was growing up.
This cow like the story too. Was quite enamored with Jim as well.
Walking into Breinz we found this sculpture outside a shop.
Outside on the ramp for the boat this tree had some knitted pieces on it's trunk and
The last leg of our adventure will take us back to the hotel. We have a reservation at a Resturant Elvira referred us to. It is one of her favorites and will give us a feel for the local community. Tomorrow we head off to Venice, Italy again another location for the
007 experience.
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