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Welcome to Germany |
Lunch at a Gast Haus |
Leaving for Switzerland |
Arriving in Schweiz |
The road to Stecklburg |
Hello Alps |
Cable car to Gimmelwald - no cars allowed |
Lunch in Gimmelwald |
No one said there'd be stairs to the chalet |
Chalet on the hill |
Bischofsmatta |
Relaxing on the apartment balcony |
The Alpiners Three |
Our Swiss Chalet |
Complete with kuchen und frau |
Swiss 'love shack' |
This is Gimmelwald |
The only action in Gimmelwald |
All this scenery and Greg's looking at snow chains |
Watering hole |
Bah bah black sheep have you any wool? |
Yogurt anyone? |
Sonnetag nacht en Gimmelwald |
Blick null |
Sunset over the Alps |
Nightlife in Gimmelwald |
Nightlife in Gimmelwald |
0610 hrs. Monday morning |
Cable car to Murren |
2nd cable car to Birg |
3rd cable car to Piz Gloria |
Our destination Schilthorn - 10,000 ft. |
Piz Gloria - the restarant on Schilthorn |
View from the top |
Greg & Amy |
Hangin' out on the balcony |
View eins |
Steve & Amy |
No high heels allowed |
Told you so |
Tres Amigos |
Reflection of Parkes |
Blick drei |
Blick vier |
Blick funf |
Our kangaroo buddies |
Location, location, location |
Blick sechs |
The children have been here |
George Lazenby in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' |
Diana and the boys |
The film is nearly 40 yrs. old. Get over it already. |
A cold drink in the rotating restaraunt. |
Talk about a 'round about' - it rotates |
It's easy to be neutral at 10k ft. |
Choices? We choose down. |
Sun on our backs, gravity on our side... how can we go wrong? |
Probably the way we should have taken down. |
On the start of our 5500 ft. Alpine decent. |
Time out! Gotta change shoes. |
Just follow the fence |
What fence? |
Navigating the slope |
Wave. Everybody wave. |
One foot in front of the other |
Alpine photo shoot |
There's the trail. |
"Wait up! I'm falling as fast as I can." |
A View to a Piss |
Crazy bloke. Even 10k isn't enough for him. |
Amy en blick sieben |
So... this is alpining?! |
Dos cervezas, per favore. |
Can you see Piz Gloria? - 2hrs. later |
Times are based on SPRINTING down the mountain. |
A leap of faith |
Don't adjust your set. We're compensating for gravity. |
Piz Gloria resting on the tip of my finger. |
Where the rubber hits the road. |
My only artsy shot. |
Break time on the slope. |
Perspective is everything. |
Civilization |
Suppenalp |
Postcard from Suppenalp |
Our future summer home |
The neighbors |
We think this is the way to Murren |
Overlooking Murren |
Finally... a sign to point our way |
The road to Gimmelwald |
Rush hour in Gimmelwald |
Shortcut down the stairs |
Gimmelwald 7 hrs. later |
Finally back at the chalet |
Relaxing after the decent.... zzzzzzzzz |
Next day enjoying Murren |
The view from Murren |
Murren overlooks Gimmelwald |
Fondue, an aquired taste |
Oh boy. Getting cloudy. |
Blick acht |
Steve's new friends |
White chocolate milk |
Blick neun |
Blick zehn |
Environmentally friendly lawn mowers |
Our chalet overlooks the village |
This is the life |
A man and his mountain |
Local farmer or Santa... your choice |
Night falls on the Alps |
Sunrise on the Alps |
Wednesday morning. Amy needs cafino! |
Going back down to the valley Lauterbrunnen |
In the valley |
Back up to Isenfluh - only accessable by a burrow or 360° tunnel through the mountain |
Isenfluh |
Isenfluh |
Swiss cheese and butter |
Cheese closet |
Parting shot of Schweiz |
Flossenburg Concentration Camp |
'Jesus in the Dungeon' Chapel |
One of several guard houses |
Jewish Memorial |
Don, figure this out. |