Sep 13, 2007

Day 10 - from Meiringen to Grinewald


I woke up at 6 o'clock - fresh and ready after the resting day... but kind of felt pity to wake up Wolf so early, so just tried to sleep bit more - 20 minutes.. :) after that Wolf woke up also..
We had breakfast at this wonderful Brunner hotel. Fresh bread.. pear jam.. and even waitress girl brought separate knife for cheese (she was also vegeterian, so she could understand why i do not want to use knife, which was used for cutting ham.. :p )

The walk was nice and long.. we gained 1 400 meters of altitude.
On the way one girl asked to fill in questionarries about long-distances walking. We gladly helped her out. We had a good laugh about questions and answers, after even compared some answers.. :) It was clear that Wolf was looking for adventures during the hike, and i was not in the mood of any adventures.. - just nice, peaceful hike, please.... :)

Today's destination according to the book was Grinewald, but it meant more than 8 hours of walking and gaining quite a lot of altitude.. So we decided before, that we will stay 1 hour before Grinewald at Wettelhorn hotel, as they were supposed to have a dormitory accomadation also.
Wettelhorn hotel was very big and crowded with tourists. Always, after quite solitary walking, amidst people you feel like a stranger from another planet or something..
Stuff at the hotel was also quite arrogant, so we just decided to keep walking towards Grinewald..

Grinewald is the town were you can find a lot of extremely expensive shops, restraunts and plenty of rich swiss tourists.. So, there is no need to say, that still we felt as strangers.. hungry strangers.. :) our last meal was breakfast at Brunner Hotel... and it was already evening.. Shop were just closed..

We were looking for a place to stay and for some simple food. We could not find any of those two.. :)
Wolf bought some ice-cream from one nice asian girl and i asked, if she knows some nice-priced accomodation opportunities.. She guided us just around one-two corners and there was very nice, very simple hostel - with a lot of buildings around.
We left our backpackes in the room and looked futher for food - those two were very hungry.... :) but in Grinewald you can find a plenty of opprtunies to eat out for just 70-80 franks for two.. that is a little bit too much, you know.. :)

After long searching we found extremely nice place with very kind lady as a host and we had two very nice pastas.. Wolf ate in addition one huuuuge sandwich.. Happily smiling we returned to our place..

So today's keyword was more FOOD, than "scenery".... :)
well world is variegated.. :)



No comments: