Up at 6am and enjoyed the morning sun over Grindelwald with a cup of tea and a blanket from the lounge room while everyone else was still asleep. Bliss.

Jeff, Bev & Jill went off into town to pay the final payment on our chalet and for a trip to the supermarket to stock up on breakfast provisions while I pottered around at home .

Lucky I had such a nice view to keep me company as they locked me in! It was such a hardship sitting on the balcony with that view while I waited for them to get back.

Once they returned, Jill decided to spend the day at the chalet as she got massively sunburnt yesterday at Mt Titlis (major panda eyes!) so she needs to have a day off from the sun.

Jeff, Bev & I decided to have a look at the Gletscherschlucht (Glacier Gorge). Had lunch first at the gorge restaurant and then went for a walk through the interesting though not particularly pretty gorge. Part of the walk is along a tunnel cut directly into the side of the mountain and the rest is a suspended walkway hanging from the side. Hell of a lot of work went into creating this but now walking through it's just grey and drab and cold. Not a lot of sun gets into the gorge.

After this we decided to head for some sunshine around in the Lauterbrunnen valley . This valley is very different to the side we are staying in. Ours is more a V shape valley while the Lauterbrunnen almost has 90 degree valley walls rising from the floor. Lots of exposed rock here and because it's a long straight drop from the top the waterfalls literally shoot off the edge and then "fall" down the mountain. In fact there are a whopping 72 waterfalls in the Lauterbrunnen valley. Between you and me... just a little bit speccy!

Our first stop was to visit the Staubbach Falls. Spectacular falls that do that shoot off a mountain and drift on the air thing in a very classy fashion. In fact, the cascade is between 800 and 900 feet, making it one of the highest unbroken fall waterfalls in Europe. Bev wisely rested her feet and stayed in the car. A fortuitous move as at the end of the very steep track to the waterfall was ... no view of the waterfall! There was a much better view from the valley floor. This track just ended in the cliff and the only way you could tell there was a waterfall to your right was from the sound and the occasional float of mist wafting by .

Thwarted by the falls, we took photos of the sheep instead with their noisy bells, while also managing to avoid being trampled by the stampeding hordes of tour groups.

Onto Trummelbach Falls - a huge waterfall inside a mountain. Kids are not allowed in here because too many of them get scared by the noise of the water (it is rather loud).

Amazing place with a funicular entirely inside the mountain to take you up several levels, then about 10 viewing platforms at various spots. All carved out of the inside of the mountain.
As you can imagine, very cold inside as all the water is snow melt. Strangely, I never saw the guy who was only wearing shorts (no top) in the ticket queue behind me inside the mountain. A good move buddy as you would have frozen in there!

So many wildflowers in the meadows near the falls. i jumped the fence, (well crawled under it) and sat in amongst the flowers. Lovely, lovely (though now I am itchy and Jill told me I must have caught "cow fleas" hmmm).

Drove nearly to the end of the valley admiring the amazing scenery until we met an unfriendly man giving us a wave. Pretty sure it wasn't the Swiss salute he was doing. Grumpy old bugger.

Back to Grindelwald to collect Jill and head into town for dinner. Yummy Indian tonight. Jeff drove Bev home while Jill and I walked back to our Heidi House seeing she hadn't done anything physical today. We both looked in a few shops along the way and (eventually) found our way back.