Where to Switzerland - Day Three

We woke up early on our first morning in Lauterbrunnen. Truly this was our only full day in the quaint little town. The reason for waking before sunrise? We were going to be taking the nearby gondola up to the Schilthorn PizGloria viewpoint - and the James Bond restaurant and experience that it includes. I am a James Bond fan, so I really wanted to see and visit the spots in Switzerland that were in some of the movies. This one just happened to be at 10,000ft with a spinning seating area that allows you to take in 360-degree views of the surrounding snow-capped mountains. We lucked up with quite a clear morning.

After we had breakfast and explored a little bit, we took the gondola back down, stopping in Murren. All of these towns accessed by gondola are typically car-free, like Murren and Wenger that we will visit later in the day. We walked around Murren, soaking in the beautiful fall colors.

Back down in Lauterbrunnen, we dropped off what we had carried with us that morning and headed for the train in the center of town that takes you up to Wengen. From there, our plan was to hike back down. We had contemplated renting bikes, but biking UP to Wengen would have been a bit advanced for us. This was another breathtaking, car-free town, bathed in autumn colors. There was a specific shot of the Lauterbrunnen valley that I wanted to capture from this hike down, but I will also plan to stay in a hotel in Wengen on our next visit, it was just so stunning.

Tip: I have had my Doc Martens that I wore for this day for so long (since autumn 2019) and either they still aren’t broken in, or they just aren’t a shoe you want to be constantly walking downhill in… Even though I had actually brought my hiking boots on this trip!

Once we got back down into Lauterbrunnen, we both had to rest our feet before dinner. We did make a trip to the town CoOp before settling on the couch of our AirBnB for an hour.

For dinner, we headed to the Silberhorn restaurant for the best pizza in town, recommended to us by our AirBnB host, Angie. It really was the best. I also had my first Aperol Spritz, even though we weren’t in Italy… And the best part, besides the lovely view from our seats of the Staubbach waterfall, was us getting engaged by the end of the night!

Where to (next), Meg?