Where to Switzerland - Day Six and Seven
Two full days in Zermatt.
On the first full day in Zermatt (Day Six of the trip), we took the Gornergrat train up to the summit and observatory, a total of 5,264ft above sea level. Up there, it was obviously much colder, with everything covered in snow. We were really lucky with such clear weather conditions.
On the way back down, we stopped at Riffelsee, a famous lake that tends to create a legendary mirror-image of the Matterhorn on its surface. Clouds started rolling in at this point, so I couldn’t quite recreate the desired image, but enjoyed the beautiful view and chilly air nonetheless.
We went grocery shopping back in town, spending so much time simply wandering the aisles. We also picked up chocolate from the famous chocolatier, Laderach - as well as dinner from McDonalds of all places… I used to never eat McDonalds on international trips, but when you’re absolutely sick of cheese dishes a week in…you switch it up. Especially considering McDonalds nowadays tends to offer different menu items in different countries - AND taste better, like here in Switzerland. So we brought back our groceries, chocolate and McDonalds, and ate on our balcony.
After eating, we decided we wanted to check out the apartments communal hot tub and sauna. Austin even took a cold-plunge in the pool. When it got too dark to see the view any longer, we headed back up to our apartment and popped open a bottle of champagne we bought at the grocery store.
The next day, we ordered quite the breakfast spread up to our room.
Then we rented e-bikes, taking the trail up to Sunnegga. The plan was to bike around the Seven Lakes hiking trail, but some of those inclines/declines with those bikes… we were struggling, so we rode them back down, returned them, them took the gondola back up the mountain so we wouldn’t miss our lunch reservation. Personally, we enjoyed the e-bikes the best along the streets of town and on the main trail up. Once we tried to veer off, it was chaos.
Back to those lunch reservations. We had lunch at Chez Vrony, a Michelin star restaurant with a spectacular view of the Matterhorn.
After lunch, we hiked downhill to see the Valais black-nosed sheep I had been searching for since arrival. I was living my Disney princess life.
We got gelato back in town and then hit up the hot tub and sauna again at the apartment. Our legs were already feeling that e-bike ride, plus the amount of hiking we had ended up doing.
I was super sad to leave our place in Zermatt, but I know for sure that we will be back. Hopefully for Christmas some year in the future?! We were of course looking forward to what else lay ahead.
Where to (next), Meg?
