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Switzerland is one of my favorite countries in the world, and it's one that I've visited countless times over the last 40 years. But for this next week, I'm going to be exploring places in the country that I've never been to before. What a magical place. This is beautiful. I'll be traveling by myself and starting out with a night in Inter, which granted I've been to many times, but I'll be heading up to Needle Horn, which I haven't experienced before. just came out into this meadow and it's like a picture postcard view. I'm then going to have two nights in the picturesque medieval city of Lucern.
It's like a super chill vibe to it. And then from here I'll do a couple of day trips. The first we'll be heading up to Mount Pilates. The path has turned into a scramble. Then on the second day trip I'm going to do the popular Stew Ridge hike. Just in case there's any doubt, we're right on the edge here. It'll be at least 1,000 mters down right there. I'll then move on to the small village of Anderamat and go on a hike to the source of the river Ryan. This water is so clear that I just want to jump in it. After this, I'll get to experience traveling first class on the Glacier
Express. And this will take me to my final destination, the beautiful lakeside town of St. Morris. What a spot to come to for my last day in Switzerland. Switzerland isn't always the cheapest country to travel in. And so on this leg, I'm staying in like a mixture of mid-range hotels. Plus, I'm also going to have a couple of nights in a capsule hotel just because it was a lot cheaper than the other options, but still not that cheap. So, I'm always looking for ways I can save money on things like hotels, car rentals, flights, and other things like that. Which brings us nicely on to this video sponsor, Founders Card.
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said goodbye to Jamie and the rest of the group. And I'm heading to Interarken to start the second part of my trip. So if you're planning on visiting the Yungfra region and doing lots of hikes in the mountains, then I would advise actually not to stay in Inter cuz there's places way further up the valley like Fen and Grindfall that you can stay that's right amongst the action. Saves you the journeys back and forth. You're right close to the mountains. It's just a lot more quiet, a lot more peaceful. Now don't get me wrong, compared to most places in the world, Interarken is spectacular. But having just spent a week in Wen, coming down here seems so crazy and busy and chaotic, which isn't
necessarily a bad thing. Maybe you want that. Maybe you want to experience the mountains, but come down to a place that has a bit of a vibe, has quite a lot of bars, there's hostels here and things like that. So have a think about what you want. But if you just want peace, quiet, and hiking in the mountains, then you want to be staying up there, not down here. Now the reason I'm staying in Inter is because I had planned to go to Brienne and do the Brienne Roth like train that's got an old locomotive train that goes on the mountain and do a hike around there but the train is open right
now but all the hikes are shut because there was like a storm that damaged all them recently. So that's off the cards. A great thing to do around here is take a boat out on Lake Brien or Lake Tomb which we did last week when we had a rainy day in the mountains. We came here and cruised around the lake and that was fantastic. One of the most popular activities down at Interakum. But that's just like a finicular that goes up to really busy, overcrowded, touristy, tacky restaurant. Has a decent view, but there's so many other better views around here. So like if I was you, don't waste your time and money going up there. But what I am going to do is when you get the train like from Zurich to
Interlock and you're coming on the last stretch by Lake Ton, I've always seen on the other side of lake up on the hill this random crazy hotel. looks like a giant chalet just on the edge of a cliff. So, I was always like, "Well, what is that place? What's going on up there?" And I looked into it and you can get like a finicula and a cable car above it. So, what I'm going to do is head up there, have a bit of a hike around, see what's going on, see what the views are like, and then walk down to the hotel and then see if that hotel's got a bar and have a cheeky little beer at the end of the day. So, it's going to be a bit of a random one to start off with, but let's just see what happens.
All right. So, I just got the bust of beat and booked and now I got to go get a finicular up, then a couple of cable cars, I think. Then we'll get to the top and we start hiking from there. Okay, finishing the st now onto the cable car. Amazing views already. Okay, so that was one of the weirdest cable car rides I've been on. It was if the designer couldn't make up his mind whether he wanted to do like a big cable car or the continuous gondola ones and came with some weird love child in between. So there's like three that go together about the size of a big gondola. You just stand up and off you go. But yes, I'm up at Needle Horn and it is
absolutely spectacular up here. The only problem is it's a very hazy day cuz behind me you should be able to see the Aigger Mach and Yungfra and you can just about see them through the clouds but on a normal day this would just be a phenomenal view cuz you'd have the lakes beneath you and then the mountains behind. But anyway, I'm going to go on a bit of a hike to Bergfeld Stand and then work my way down to Beatenberg and find that crazy hotel and hopefully get some good views, good times along the way. We got some mountain goats right here next to the path. Yeah. So, you can see where I'm going is up onto that peak over there and then work my way down to the village. So, on the one side you got the hazy
mountains. On the other is just straight down to death. See the lake going around there as well. Yeah. some pretty big drop offs on this bit. Okay, now I'm at the top. Well, it's starting to clear up a little bit cuz the camera can actually pick out the mountains now. All right, it says it's 1 hour 40 down to beatenberg from here. So, let's give it a go. This is great so far. This path down, lovely soft grass path through the meadows. Just looking straight up at the mountains. Of course, as soon as I said
that, it gets all rocky and boggy. Hello, cows. This is the soundtrack to Switzerland right here. So, the town's just down here. It's pretty much a sheer cliff from here down. So, curious to what the path's going to do for the next bit to actually get down. Well, it's getting a little turned around a bit in the woods there cuz there's different ways down to the town, but I think I figured it out. Oh, wow. Just come out the woods to this. Just came out into this meadow, but it's like a picture postcard view. Just too good.
Aha, I found the hotel. Let's see if they have a bar. Mission accomplished. They don't have a balcony, but they have a hotel bar with the windows looking out the view. So, just through the slants here, you can see back up to the I can see the young crow and down to Lake Tong. So, I think today worked out pretty well. I'll definitely do that hike again. Maybe do some variations at the top and stuff, but that was really cool hike. Amazing views. Good to discover something new where I've been before, then move on to brand new places tomorrow. I took a bus from just outside the hotel which took me straight back to Interarken and then I spent the evening just relaxing at my hotel. So this is my room which is a little bit of a mess cuz
I did a film as soon as I got here. But you know actually a decent size bathroom and then uh single room but has two beds, little desk but the balcony. Check this out. Look at that view. Yeah, I'm staying at Hotel Post Harder Manley. It's only a few minutes walk from Interlockan West train station and wasn't extortionate in terms of price like other places in town. So, it's a really pretty place and a good spot. Since the place I wanted to eat at had a big queue outside, I just ordered a pizza and a beer and going to enjoy it on my balcony with this insane view.
The mountains are lighting up pink now for the sunset. The kind of orange pinky glow you get on them. Just as I thought the view couldn't get any better, nature decided to turn it up a notch. I've never ever seen her before here. Like never. That's incredible. Moon's so bright as well. There's so much detail on it. The next morning, it was time for me to leave Interan and head to Lucern, where I'll be spending the next two nights. But my plan for today is to get off at Alnashtad and head up to Mount Padus before I head to Lucern in the evening.
And this is where things get complicated. So, I've booked the finicular from Alnakstad, which I'm going to take to about halfway up and then hike the rest of the way to the top of Pilates. My problem is there's no luggage storage at Alnakstad station. But rather than go all the way to Lucern, drop my bags and come back, it's going to be a lot quicker if I get off the train at Sarn where there is luggage storage, drop my bags, hop back on the train, and it's just 10 minutes to get to Alnashad and board the finicular. After I finished my hike, I'll take the finicular back down, go back to Sarn, get my bags, and then head to Lucern, where I'll check into my hotel. So, it's a bit of back and forth,
but it's the quickest way to do what I want. And with Swiss trains being so reliable, it shouldn't be a problem at all. So, first up, I'm boarding the trainer into Larkin, which should take me about an hour and 40 minutes to get to Sarn. It was an absolutely gorgeous train journey weaving between the mountains and past all these beautiful villages. And not before long, I was approaching Sarn for stage one of my plan, which is put my bags in the storage. Here. I've just got this on and the luggage storage is out of order. I can literally got off the train and went, "Ah, perfect. The luggage storage is right there." Nope. I've been planning this day out for a while to get it just right to do exactly what I want.
And then one broken piece of technology and it's all gone up in the air. So, yeah, we'll head to Ludson, dump my bags accommodation, and get the cable car up the other side to Gladus. And I'll still enjoy it up there. See if I can do a little hike and see what happens. I boarded the next train to Lucern and then just to rub it in when I went past Alpnakstad. I saw the finicular that I was actually booked on starting to make its way up to Palatus. And so it took about half an hour to get to Lucern. Then it was a 15-minute walk to my hostel to dump my bag. And then I boarded a 20-minute bus out to Koreans where it's a 10-minute walk to the cable car.
Here I am about to get the cable car up. It is a gondola to begin with, which looks pretty cool. And I already booked my ticket online whilst I was on the bus just to save K for it when I get here. There's some big ass tour groups here. So hopefully with my ticket I can get past them. It's a big hard no on that. Everyone here's got a ticket and it's a huge queue. Hello. All right, made it up to Palatus. Uh, I had to queue for ages for the cable car. And it's a good reason why you always get up early and get the first ride up, cuz you don't have to go through all of that nonsense that I had to go through
just now. Now, the hike I was going to do was from the other train station, which is like I think down around there, and I would have come up here to this Mat Horn Peak, not the Mat Horn, Mat Horn, and then come up to here. So, what I'm going to do is hike to the Man Horn Peak and then come back to here. It's supposed to be like 55 minutes each way. So, it'll be a couple hours with stopping views. But yeah, it's a shame. It's really hazy again today, but you can actually see back to the eye way over there. So, you can see how far I've traveled today already.
Yeah, on a clear day, you'd be able to see the blue legs and Lern. We'll make the most of it anyway. Looks like it goes at a good pace that finicular. Like normally they're so slow, but I was speeding up there. A super rocky path this one. It's not kind on the soles of your feet. Well, I've got to the bottom bit and my feet hurt. I've only been walking 20 minutes. We got great views down here, though. all the way down to the valley and lots of white peaks in the distance. So, so it's supposed to be 30 minutes to get up there. Let's see how we do. Oh, it's going to be a steep up and a steep down.
The path has turned into a scramble. There's a bit you got to go up over here right over the edge. So, I'm going to turn around. I'm getting up there, carrying my camera, all that Just looks a bit dodgy if my liking. Always rather be safe than sorry. And I was about to say how lovely it is that there's no one around here, but if I hurt myself, then you're boogered. Yeah, it could be absolutely fine, but I don't want to risk it. Seems more like a scramble than a climb rather than a hike up. So yeah. Oh well. Yeah, it just looks a bit too sketchy for my liking. So have to go back down and I was going to do this anyway. We got to go back down and then all the way up that bloody thing.
Well, made it back up. Looking back, actually made it most of the way up. Just that last section just looked a bit too sketchy. But definitely want to come back here another time. Obviously not this trip, but come back another time for a really clear day because I think it would just be just phenomenal views all around. I made my way back down to Lucern and for the next two nights I'm staying somewhere a little more budget friendly at the capsule hotel. I've stayed in sort of capsule kind of things at hostels before which had a curtain at the end, but this is like a full-on closed door. So like if you're claustrophobic might be a bit weird, but I guess the mirror gives the illusion of more space.
See, I'm just going to spend the evening exploring Lucern after spending a couple of weeks in Wen and then going to Interlock and Interlockan seemed crazy and busy. So then to come to an actual proper city just feels like so fullon. But in reality, if I was just here on a European city hobby trip, I'd be like, "Oh, Lucern's so chilled out. It's such a charming little place." So it's all relative. But it is very beautiful though. So I'm just going to explore around, maybe get a drink somewhere, see how we do. Despite what I said earlier about it seemed kind chaotic coming to a big city. It's actually really relaxing now.
Just come to like the old part of town, just wandering around the streets. It's a super chill vibe to it. So, yeah, just needed a moment to adjust. I do love places like this where you just wander around a corner. It's like, oh wow, check it out as well. Lots of little surprises. I finished off my evening by enjoying a nice glass of wine by the river and then I had an early night to be ready for another day of hiking tomorrow.
My plan for today is to do the stew's ridge hike. So I've got to take a 45minut train to then a 10-minute bus to the finicular station. So I don't want to make the same mistake as yesterday and being a queue all day. So, I'm getting the 706 train around slice. Should get up there for about 9:00. Start hiking around then. And I've just bought a ticket for the finicular up, chairlift, then do the panorama walk, and then chair lift down and finicul back down. That was really cool, actually. Like normally a finicular just stays at the same angle and you have different compartments for people to stand in. Whilst this was like four circular compartments that just rotated to keep everyone level as a train went up the
mountain and it was like super steep as well like gradient of 110°. Now this is like the whole stews kind of area. This is lovely though. Just like yesterday was a bit hectic and all the paths were like harsh and rocky and now it's just like ah peaceful fresh green meadows. So I think this is going to be a good day. So up there is where I'm going to get the chair lift to and just do the hike along. All right. Got my own little chair lift. Say little, it's big. Oh, this is nice. Oh, I do love a good chair lift. It's a shame cuz most of them usually shut in the summer. They just save it for winter for skiing. So to get to ride water this
time of year, it's pretty sweet. Oh, it's so peaceful after the chaos of yesterday. This is just exactly what I wanted. So, yeah, you can hike all the way up, but I just think after all the hiking I've done of late, it's nicer to take it easier today. Wow. It's another hazy day. Maybe we'll clear up later, but still a pretty damn incredible view. Yeah, it's been such a weird week with the weather so far. It's like it could be way worse. It could be raining all the time or it could be super cloudy. I couldn't see anything. So, I'm very grateful that it's sunny, but just this haze is kind of obstructing what could be just some of the most incredible views you could ever see. So, I did a bit of Googling and it turns out the haze was
caused by the wildfires back home in Canada, and the smoke had traveled over the Atlantic via the jetream and landed right here in Switzerland. So, it says it's a 2-hour and 10-minute walk along the ridge here. Got a first glimpse of the lakes down below, which should be bright blue. Right now, it's a very hazy, kind of gray blue. Still amazing, though. I'm trying not to get frustrated by the uh the haze, but just when you know it could be perfection. This still is a really magical hike though. Just epic path on the ridge. Beautiful meadows and mountains and lakes all around.
Just in case there's any doubt, we're right on the edge here. It's got to be at least 1,000 mters down right there. There's all these like tiny little villages perched on the edge of the lake down there which you see the boats going up to and trains going through. Be lovely to check out actually. Just go down there, have a nice glass of wine by the lake. Well, can you see how far I've come already? Probably past halfway. Straight down from here, it's beautiful. Just incredible.
Oh, this is a grind up here. Absolute grind. 15 minutes to go and this last bit up looks a bit more gentle. So reached the top. Yeah, it's only like 2 and a bit hour hike, but it is a good workout, you know. It's not like a just a gentle stroll. There's a lot of steep ups and downs. This is just unbelievable. I see a lot more boats out in the lake now. I think as per usual going to get a beer before I head down. Lovely stuff. So peaceful with all the cows. This is great though. I'm just enjoying my picnic on the way down.
Just having a little stroll around before I head back down. Just lovely here. Just lovely. Seen a couple of these around the town. Must be like the old cable car here. And now it's a little library. I went to take the Stew barn finicular back down. And it was weird. When we went into the tunnel, it kind of looked like we're inside a video game. I made my way back to Lucern and then the next morning it was time to move on to my next destination. I'm going to be spending a night in Andermat and then the following day I'll board the Glacier Express to take me to my final destination St. Morates. So,
first up, it's about a 2-hour train ride to Andermat, and I should arrive just after 10:00 a.m., which will give me plenty of time to go for a hike. All right, I have made it to Anderat and I have successfully put my bags in storage until I can check into my hotel. Uh, I came through and changed trains here in 2021 when I was going from Zumat to Ko. It looked like a really beautiful place. I thought I'd come check it out for one night before I get the Glacier Express tomorrow. The hike I've got planned for today is a bit of a shorter one. I'm going to get the cable car from the station up to Guch, hike to Lutaz, and then down to
Ober Alte where I'll get the train back to Andermat. Walking to the gondola. Nothing seems very open right now. See what happens. Okay, so the cable cars I want for today are shut. Didn't see anything online about it not being open. So, there's another one that goes up over here. So, we're going to go check that out. But, it's a cute little town. It's very quiet, very sleepy, but that's actually what I wanted. Let's see if this other cable car is open. I'm not optimistic it is going to be cuz I haven't seen any run since the whole time I've been here. So, just for reference, it's Thursday
the 12th of June. Apparently, this big one doesn't open the 28th of June. Maybe there's something really obvious I missed online, but I was checking and I didn't see anything to say that these cable cars weren't open for the summer season. Beautiful little town though, so eventually this is going to turn into a good day, I think. But I'm going to get the train up to the Oberal Pass, which is where I was going to finish my hike. We're going to have a quick look on all trails and see if I can find a good track to do up there. All right, I've had a look at all trails and I've figured out a plan. So, I'm going to go the train to the Oral Pass and then you can do a hike to Lake Toma, which is apparently the source of the
river Ryan. And apparently the water's so clean in a lake, you can drink it. I don't know if I'm going to test that, but still. All right. So, I made it to Uber. The cable car here that in town said wasn't running is running. So, I don't know what to believe. And now the cable car stopped running. I saw people on it. Not like workers, just like tourists. Now it's just stopped. Okay. So, it looks like I am going to walk to the source of the ride. Go there and back. But maybe I'll hike down to Andermat from here. Says now I'm 40.
We'll see. See how I feel. Ah, it's a bit frustrating really. Just wish I knew what was going on or some clear information anywhere, but oh well, let's make the most of it. Right. Well, we're finally walking anyway. It is very beautiful here. Got me in a bit of a mood, not knowing what's going on, but now just enjoy being in the mountains. Just saw not one, not two, but four Deloreans driving up the road here. I've driven in one though, so whatever. So, I think the path's going to take us up there somewhere. We have got like 300 m of elevation gain to do. Uh, you I was
just thinking, "Oh, this walks nice and easy, actually." Then I just checked the map. It's like, "Oh, wait. We got some up to do. We've come pretty far up. This last stretch. Hopefully, it's the last stretch." Yeah. Yeah, you kind of playing find a path marker cuz it's not always clear amongst the streams and the snow. Finally. Oh, this is beautiful. Just
What a magical place. This water is so clear that I just want to jump in it. But I didn't bring my swimmers or a towel, so I'm not going to. Maybe I'll dip my toes in. Holy it's cold. I was saying it'd be nice to go swimming in it, but just put my feet in that. That is absolutely freezing. Like, not just like, oh, that would be a bit cold going in, but that would be painful. Like, my feet are hurting. I spent a good hour just relaxing at the lake before I made my way back to Oberal Pass. Then after I had my traditional posthike pint, I got the train back down to Anderamat and went to check in to my hotel. So this is my room.
Nice big bed. Oh, decent size bathroom. Oh, and a bath. Going to have a bath later. And let's have a look at the view. Ah, cool. Parking lot and chalet. You see a bit of the hills over there. Saying that though, it's nice to have my own space again after being in the small capsules. Done many, many years of dorms and stuff like that, but this leg of the trip for me is about a long time. So, it's nice to just have my own space. Well, it's the evening, so I'm going to go and get some food. I saw a traditional looking Swiss restaurant when I was wandering around town earlier, so might go check that out.
I had a nice and simple dinner of brat and rashi. And then the next morning, it was time to catch the train again. So today, I'm traveling from Anderamat to St. Morris, my final destination in Switzerland. And for the first half of the journey, I'm going to be riding on the Glacier Express. And I figured if I'm going to go on a Glacier Express, may as well upgrade to first class. Nice little treat for myself at the end of the trip here. Uh doesn't cost that much extra to be fair, so it's not like an extortion amount of money. But yeah, it should be a beautiful, lovely journey. Hang on, just my train now.
The first part of my journey today will take about 2 and 1/2 hours. Then I'll change train to K and then it'll be another 2 hours down to St. Morates. First leg was a proper Glacier Express train and they had like full weight of service. You could get like a four course meal if you wanted. I just opted for a bit of bubbles and a cheese plate which is way too much for me but it's all they had. And then we went back past the overall pass where I was yesterday and then just continued working our way through the mountains. Then on the second leg from core, it was funny. I was on the platform and I saw
this engine which had my name on it and then that turned out to be the engine for the train I was getting on. This genuinely is my train as well. Not just kidding around, but it is on the route down here to St. Morates. There's a famous vio lander vioaduct. You'll see in lots of tourism adverts for Switzerland, every brochure pitch for Glacier Express. And so I wanted to go on this fire duct and I sort of planned ahead like right where do I want to be sitting to get the best view like I was looking at the pictures going on which direction of travel is it like on the inside of the curve and I got a seat in the back of the train so I can see the train going around all these little
things in preparation just so I can get like a good shot of it but it ends up being with the Watson engine going on the bridge so it just looked it looked amazing. All right, just arrived in St. My hotel is right here. So when you walk in and you're like, "Oh yes, I paid for the small room to save money." There's an amazing view of the town, though, especially if you like stand on the bed. This is cool, though. It's a really good location. This is interesting, though. They have a backpack you can borrow for the day. binoculars you can borrow for the day. And then I finally first time in Switzerland have a fridge
in my room, but I don't really need it tonight because there's no balcony. So, I've just got one night here in St. Morids. So, I'm going to have a little wander around the town this evening and then tomorrow morning I'll go for one last hike before I have to get the train in the afternoon to Zurich airport to fly home. Well, first impressions, it seems very posh around here. Don't think I'll be doing much shopping. It seems very posh, very up market, you know, like some places you arrive at, it seems a bit more up market, bit more fancy, and you're like, "Okay, I can up my game and indulge in this for a night or two." But this place, you get here, it's like, Jesus.
Yeah, my plan for this evening was just have like a little picnic by the lake cuz my hotel's right on the lake and I thought instead of sitting in a restaurant by myself, I could just get some stuff from the supermarket, have some beers and some snacks by the water. Be a lovely little evening. And it's forecast for nothing but sun, but it's clouding over and looking like it might rain. All right, so it's not quite raining. It's like hinting at it, but like we'll see what the clouds are going to do. So, I'm going to still try and have a little picnic by the lake. Uh, if it starts properly raining, my hotel's literally
just there, so I can just run up. A few little raindrops, but it looks like it's going to clear. I think we'll see. I mean, I'm definitely getting rained on right now, but I'm telling you, it's going to stop. The sun's coming out. I started the next morning with some breakfast at the hotel. Unfortunately, it was a gorgeous day outside for my last day in Switzerland. I had planned to go up to Pete's Na, which is directly above St. Morates, but the finicular isn't open for the summer season yet. So instead, I'm taking a short bus ride to Muatas Mural where I'll be taking the finicular up, hiking the Panorama Veg, then taking a chairlift down, and I should easily be done before I have to
get the train to the airport this afternoon. All right, I've dumped my bags at the station. Now I'm just going to get a bus to where I can get the finicular. Okay, we're now doing this hike the opposite way around to what I planned cuz the bus just zipped straight past the station from the finicular. Like I thought it was going to turn into it. So, I hadn't pressed the button. I just went straight past. It's okay. It's still the same hike, just different way around. Hopefully, the chair lifts open this early. I got myself a combo ticket for the chairlift and finicular, but I then found out the chair lift didn't
open for another half an hour. So I decided to jump back on the bus to the finicular station and do the hike the original way round that I wanted to. So I got to the finicular station and the ticket was like not working at the gate. So I went to the ticket office and he went, "Oh yeah, this one's not valid." I was like, "What do you mean it's not valid?" He went, "This is a ticket for the chair lift up and the finicular down. It's not valid for the finicular up and the chairlift down." I was like, "But it's the same thing. It's the exact same thing." He went, "Oh, but they're different companies and stuff," you know? I was like, "Well, if they're different companies, then why did both
of you sell a joint ticket at the same price?" And then you eventually saw Reason and just swap the ticket out for me. But bloody hell. Anyway, vent over. This place is freaking beautiful. Like what a spot to come to for my last day in Switzerland. You can see right above St. Morris here. See it down there. My hotel's ju just behind this hill here. And the panorama hike I'm going to do is along around here around the corner to the top of the chalice which I'm now allowed to go down on.
Well, it says 2 and 3/4 hours which would get me there for midday. That's still enough time to get back and get my train at 1, so we're good. This is lovely though. It's a gorgeous day. Amazing views. No one else on the hike. Perfect little end to my trip. I just walked past a marble hole and then a one just came right across the path right here. Well, you can see now why they call it the panorama hike. Incredible panoramic views. This has worked out so well actually. That's a lovely just kind of nothing too strenuous.
Oh, what a gorgeous little spot this is to finish up at. All the white peaks in the background. An amazing view down to the valley. Yeah, there's lots of other extended hikes you could do around here if you had more than just a half day. Cheers. It was nice just being able to take a moment and enjoy one last beer in the mountains before my journey back. The first leg of which was getting the chairlift down the mountain. This is gorgeous though. What a glorious way to end the trip. Just a beautiful chills chairlift ride back down to the valley.
See, this is why I wanted to do it this way round. That's why I made the fuss of going back to the finicular so I could end with this. That was perfect. Could have sat on that all day. It was now time for me to get the train to the airport because my time in Switzerland had come to an end. Normally at the end of my videos, I kind of sum up how I felt about the trip, but I think this one it's bloody obvious, really. Like, news alert, I love Switzerland. The first part of this trip, getting to share a place that I love so much with people that I love so much just meant the world to me. That was so special. And then this second half of the trip, going to all the new places. Basically,
all I've done is add more to the list of places I need to return to on my next visit to Switzerland. Especially those spots where some of the views were kind of obstructed by the haze from the wildfires. Like, I really want to go back there again and see all those views at their best. And by the way, if you are interested in any of the accommodation or activities I did on this trip, I've got links to them in the description and the pin comment. Uh they're affiliate links. They don't cost you anymore to book through them, but they do help me out and help support the channel. I also have an Amazon store and within that is a special hiking packing list, so it has all the things I
would normally take on a hiking trip. And other ways you can support the channel is either by signing up to the Patreon or just buying me a beer through the PayPal link. Now, the next trip that we did after this was another hiking trip because we went to Scotland to do the West Highland Way. That film's been out for a few months now. I've just been editing the trips in a bit of a random order just cuz of timings I had in between other trips. And right now, I'm getting packed up to go away on the next adventure, which is going to Japan for 2 weeks with Jamie. And then after that, she's going to head home and I'm going to head to
Indonesia for 2 weeks with my mate Luke. Those will be coming out on the channel in the next two to three months. So, make sure that you've not only subscribed, but turn on the notifications so you don't miss them when they come out. And I'll see you all again very soon. Cheers.
