Swiss trip - D3

All excited about goint to Schilthorn, I woke up 15 mins earlier than the alarm time I'd set in my cell. As done in Hindi movies, I too slowly opened the curtains and windows to look outside and get a glimpse of the weather. Phew ! It was snowing ! I got all excited about this. I woke up all and took them to my room and suddenly, a feeling came to play again in snow. Hardly I knew that Schilthorn plans were fading away..

Our hotel guy suggested we drop the plan to Schilthorn, as it would be closed, and also pointed us to go to Trumbachfalle, where there were 5 waterfalls meeting. The route was same till Lauterbrunnen, but after that we had to take a cable car. Earlier, we had decided to leave the place by 8:30, but then finally we were out by 10:30. We went to Inter West and took a bus to Wilderswill, only to see that all trains too had been cancelled due to heavy rain and snow ! We got a sense that our day was getting wasted.

Then, Jum came up with an idea of going to Berne, capital of Switzerland. Actually, it wasn't a bad idea. We came back to Interlaken West and boared the double decker train to Berne. FYI.. Interlaken West is the DDLJ station where King Khan and Kajol miss their train.

It was a 1 hour journey to Berne. The boring city. Only buildings here and there. We enquired about the places to see there and the travel info guys told of some historic monuments. We went around city saw Houses of Parliament, Swiss National Bank, Clock tower and some forgettable places. We didn't have enough cash with us, so went to McD's thinking they would accept credit cards. But unfortunately, they didn't accept it & we had to starve big time ! We then decided to go back to Basel to board our flight back to London. At Berne station, we managed to get some croisants & satisfy our stomachs!

We caught the wrong train(or rather, train changed its direction) and landed in some unknown city. There fortunately, there was a train ready for Basel, and we hurriedly caught that. Finally reached Basel at around 5:30 PM, for our 9:45 PM flight!
Just went to airport, checked in our luggages and full 2 hours of chatting. About future, about IT, Infy, and what not ! It was an interesting chat all together! In the meanwhile, I got a view from Basel airport aswell.. one last view of Switzerland..

Our flight was delayed by 15 mins, but reached London Luton safely at 11ish. Got a cab from there which dropped everyone back home. It was 12 when I reached home.

Alltogether, it was one of the best trips covered. Given a chance, I would like to visit Switzerland again, and cover up other places like Zurich, Rhine falls, Mt. Titlis and Geneva.

With this, I end my Swiss trip blog.

Shubham