Switzerland 2008

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great show Paddy !
Wonderful pix and plants... and alphabetically too... there's the teacher showing....  !  Great work !
Thanks a lot !

[Gerdk]

Great show Paddy !
Wonderful pix and plants... and alphabetically too... there's the teacher showing....  !  Great work !
Thanks a lot !

I can only repeat this !

Gerd

[Paddy Tobin]

Many thanks for your comments, Luc and Gerd.

Some sightseeing in Interlaken and on Brientzerzee.

Paddy

[Paddy Tobin]

Continuing on Brientzerzee

Paddy

[ranunculus]

Many congratulations Paddy,
Wonderful images of a truly splendid region.

[Lesley Cox]

That intense blue is called "blue sky with sunshine." We had some once, too.

[Thomas Huber]

Great photos, Paddy and Tony!
The waterfall is the "Giessbacher Waterfall"
We've seen it on our bike-tour around the lake, but photos
can't show its beauty - you have to see it with your own eyes!

[Diane Clement]

That intense blue is called "blue sky with sunshine." We had some once, too.

You're lucky, I can't remember it.   

Super pix, Paddy, glad you had a good time

[ian mcenery]

Welcome Tony it's great to see this thread won't lie down

[Tony Lee]

Well done Paddy,Are they still looking for the Teddy Bears at Schynige Platte,Tony L

[Paddy Tobin]

Lesley,
I must seek out some photograph of the river running throught the valley, through Lauterbrunnen, as it was the oddest colour, a white blue might be as close as I could describe it.

Thomas,
We didn't go to see this waterfall only the one at Lauterbrunnen - much more accessible and with a pathway which brought you behind the water. All very beautiful.

Tony,
Teddy bears? Never saw any?

Dreadful weather induces a condition I would like to share with all my friends on this forum - so here are a few photographs from the other side of the Lauterbrunnen valley. We went by train from Wengen to Lauterbrunnen, a cablecar ride connected with the train onto Murren and then two cablecar rides brought us to the Schilthorn, location famously used in the James Bond film, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". There had been a foot of fresh snow overnight but, amazingly for me at any rate, it was perfectly comfortable to go outside in shorts, shirt and sandals. After returning to Murren we walked back down to Lauterbrunnen. This was through a  mixture of woodland and pastureland. It was a long but very pleasant walk and, most importantly, all downhill.

Scenery first, flowers to follow.

The second last photograph shows the area described earlier by Tony. Mannliched in situated at the left of the mountain ridge running along left from the Eiger. Kleine Scheiddegg is just left of the base of the Eiger; Eigergletchen is right up at the base of the Eiger and the Eiger walk runs away from my position along the base of the Eiger to the far side of that mountain ridge. OK Geog lesson over, sorry!

Paddy

[David Nicholson]

Fantastic pictures Paddy. I'm not a mountain person really as I can not cope with heights but I must go to Switzerland.

[Paddy Tobin]

The evening has brightened up here in Waterford, the first dry moments of the day, and I am going to rush out for a walk with son and dog.

David,

This posting was stuck half way, so to speak, as I pressed "post" and left and now have returned an hour later to find it had stopped to warn me of your posting in the meantime. You would enjoy Switzerland very much and need have no need of a fear of heights. It was only very rarely that we were in a position where we were looking down a steep drop. The pathways are very safe, well marked and easy to navigate. It is certainly not a case of climbing in the mountains, though that option is immediately available if desired. We stuck to the trails and enjoyed them very much.

Here are plants encountered on walk from Murren to Lauterbrunnen.
No names as I haven't labelled these photographs yet but here is nothing unusual here so you will have seen them and their names before. They are posted as encountered on our walk down so this may give you some feeling of the context of the planting.

Paddy

[Paddy Tobin]

A few further flowers. I loved this clump of campanula. It was growing in the retaining wall of the railway line, constructed of limestone blocks. The sun was shining down on it and caught the flowers very nicely.

Paddy

[Paddy Tobin]

It was a long walk, so lots of flowers. Paddy