We woke to a beautiful sunny day. We had hoped to go to Schilthorn where "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was filmed. Unfortunately, it was closed due to the bad weather. Instead, we caught the train and went about half way to the Jungfrau mountain to Kleine Scheidegg which is around 1400m. This is a major stop for skiers and our waiter (beer, of course) in the outdoor restaurant said that only a few days earlier, they had had over a metre of snow! We then went into Interlocken, which is a beautiful town situated between two lakes, somewhat like Banff. After exploring the town, we went up to the 18th story of the Metropol Hotel - considered the ugliest block of concrete in town for the breath-taking view. You could see para-gliders taking off into the clouds from the mountain tops to land below us in the town common. It as quite a site. The flight of the para-gliders took at least 10 minutes, but it was hard to judge as there were so many and the mountains so far away. Had it not been so late in the day, I would have gone up. On the way back to the station, we went to the co-op and bought a picnic and ate it on the way back to Luzern. As it was late when we got in, we just bought a bottle of wine at the train station and had it in our hotel room.
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