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Americans do use the word duvet, but might also say comforter.
I nearly said comforter, but I just wasn't 100% sure that was the right word.
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That did not look at all like creme brulee. I would have been disappointed, but glad to hear that it tasted good at least!
I have also been imagining Julie Andrews - and even more because another pp'r (Cindy, aka cindybelle) was just in Austria and actually had a picture of herself on the road in Salzburg where Julie comes singing along, swinging her carpet bag, on her FB page!
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My one complaint about bedding in Europe is the duvets. To me they are too hot. I prefer a top sheet and a blanket. I ask to have the duvet removed from the cover and request a top sheet or just remove it myself and use the cover as a sheet. This worked perfectly on our two European trips this summer.
You'd get on well with my mum - that's always the complaint she has about duvets.
I wasn't sure about them when I first started to use them, having grown up with top sheets and blanket, but I'm a definite convert now.
Very nice room, but the hotel seems to ramble. Your meals looked delicious. I love that the mother and daughter duo ruled the roost there because they had been so much. How cool to also get a summer band concert.
Wednesday 4 September – part one: a shed full of you know what!
I woke up about 6:10am, and by the time I’d negotiated my way to the toilet, which remember is right by the door to our room, I was pretty much awake, so I decided just to get up. Typical, as today we had no trains to catch and a bit more of a leisurely start, and I could’ve had a lay-in. Never mind!
It was Mark’s birthday today so I gave him the cards I’d bought with me. I have to confess here that I forgot his card. I knew that I had to write it, but I kept remembering when he was around, and never remembered when I was on my own. It was only on the way here I realised I just never got around to writing it, and it was still where I’d hidden it. Thank goodness at least my parents and an old family friend remembered, so he had something to open…
We headed down to breakfast at around 7:30am, and had fun getting there, as now there was a conference using the room we’d previously walked through, so you had to go downstairs, out of a door, into the fresh air, then back in through the front door of the hotel, which fortunately was unlocked. As I say, it’s a bit of an odd design to this building.
My goodness, everyone was out early today. There was no room in the area we’d had dinner in, so we ended up in another area on our own, which was nice enough.
They had a pretty good spread laid out for us….
We saw the mother and daughter from last night briefly, as they came in just as we were leaving. We headed back to the room, and packed up everything, and got ready to go, much earlier than I’d planned. So much for our later start today…
As we came out of the village, Mark spotted a shed with cows in, and kindly pulled up for me to go and say hello to them!
There was a weird sight as we left the village, with the cloud hanging low in the valley…
We headed first towards Interlaken…
We found some underground parking, and the exit was quite something. Not what you find in your average car park.
As we walked, we saw some paragliders…
We wandered towards the town, crossing more of the river…
… and only just made it through the level crossing. I was just thinking as I entered it “I wonder what happens when the lights start and you’re on the crossing, how much time you have. Well, now I know – fortunately plenty!
As in so much of Switzerland, the mountains dominate the scenery here:
We headed down the main street….
My goodness, this has changed in the three and a half years since we were last here. Sadly, a lot of the souvenir shops, including the one I spent a fortune in last time on cow items have all gone. We got the distinct impression they were trying to move more upmarket… so no fun cow T-shirts for me here then.
Disappointed, we wandered back to the car, and again, the parking was reasonable, just 0.50 CHF (about 54c) for the half hour we’d been there.
Next: this wasn’t on the itinerary for this museum!
Breakfast looks very nice, but I wouldn't want to go outside and then back in if it were winter! Hope those cows get to go out and graze in the meadows later. Too bad the fun stores in Interlaken are gone. The river is beautiful and the water has that beautiful glacier-blue color.
Breakfast looks very nice, but I wouldn't want to go outside and then back in if it were winter!
neither would I!
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Hope those cows get to go out and graze in the meadows later. Too bad the fun stores in Interlaken are gone. The river is beautiful and the water has that beautiful glacier-blue color.
I said it before, but I keep thinking "Fairy Tale," when looking at the village photos with the river and mountains in the background. Or, at the very least, expect to see Gaston and friends walking around.
I said it before, but I keep thinking "Fairy Tale," when looking at the village photos with the river and mountains in the background. Or, at the very least, expect to see Gaston and friends walking around.
I'm not sure Gaston fits in to the idea of a fairy tale.... I was quite shocked when we saw Beauty and the Beast again, as now he seems to be a bit of a loveable rogue, but he's something a lot more sinister in the movie.
That photo with the hanging cloud is so cool! I just love when nature surprises with such things. Bummer about less shopping for you. Oh well, probably makes Mark happier though.
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I'm not sure Gaston fits in to the idea of a fairy tale.... I was quite shocked when we saw Beauty and the Beast again, as now he seems to be a bit of a loveable rogue, but he's something a lot more sinister in the movie.
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How cool to also get a summer band concert.
today so I gave him the cards I’d bought with me. I have to confess here that I forgot his card. 
I knew that I had to write it, but I kept remembering when he was around, and never remembered when I was on my own. It was only on the way here I realised I just never got around to writing it, and it was still where I’d hidden it. Thank goodness at least my parents and an old family friend remembered, so he had something to open… 
There was no room in the area we’d had dinner in, so we ended up in another area on our own, which was nice enough. 
to them! 
Well, now I know – fortunately plenty! 
have all gone. We got the distinct impression they were trying to move more upmarket… so no fun cow T-shirts for me here then. 
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