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With the exception of perhaps the Greek Islands, Switzerland was my favourite place we visited during the trip. Interlaken is a popular touristy town of 15,000 in the Jungfrau region of central-west Switzerland in the Swiss Alps, and it is absolutely beautiful! After just starting to get our head around some basic French, it was now a combination of French, Swiss-German, and Italian (the three official languages of Switzerland, although we mostly encountered Swiss-German). That's half the fun though :) We spent our time here checking out the small towns in the area, as well as Jungfraujoch in the mountains, and eating a lot of chocolate! By the way, Rugenbrau - bloody good beer!

Switzerland - the land of (fucking yummy) chocolate...		...and cows with bells around their neck!		We caught the TGV from Paris through to Bern in Switzerland, where we changed trains for Interlaken. The TGV is one fucking fast train, hurtling along at more than 300km/h on some sections of track!

These were our first views of the area on the train from Bern. Stunning!
Lake Thun. Mo and I hired bikes for a few hours to better check out the town and stopped here for lunch. People were swimming in it but it was too bloody cold for me. Stunning though huh!
It felt good to be back on a bike! Incidentally, this was my first experience biking on the right hand side of the road. No worries with the backwards road rules but blind corners were very unnerving as I had the irrational fear of something coming towards me head-on hahaha!		Looking across the river that connects the two lakes on either side of Interlaken, Lake Thun (above) and Lake Brienz.
The geology shown here is typical of the area - flat green valleys surrounded by huge mountains. Very, very pretty!
The main drag through town. Interlaken has a population of about 5,500 and is the main gateway to the mountains and lakes of the region		Hahaha, even in little Interlaken - terrible! There was a Hooters across the road too - awesome!

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