Menaggio in Italy to Murren in Switzerland

Up early – we had a bus to catch. The early morning clouds where already building for another hot day.  We walked down to the bus station, missed the shop, a bar/café, where we had to buy tickets, doubled back and found it.  The bus ride was about an hour, quite an adventure, small windy roads, houses right next to the road.  Some places single lane.  The driver thought he was Enzo Ferrari.  Many tunnels, some curves where the cars on the opposite side had to move.

We found that in Lugarno, like other places, the bus does not stop at the station so had the catch another bus to the train.

We went into the railway information booth and got a useful print out of our route with all the times and platforms.  All went well. 

  • Trains for today
    • Lugarno to Luzern, high speed and fairly fancy
    • Luzern to Interlaken – smaller
    • Interlaken to Lauterbrunnen – even smaller
    • Bus sized cable car up the mountain
    • Small train/rail car along the top of the cliffs to Murren

The cable car from Lauterbrunnen was as big as a bus, the luggage was suspended underneath.  It took 5 minutes to reach the top where we caught a rickety old rail car.

Easy walk to the hostel – cliff top and our room had a view of the valley – if lucky, through all the clouds.  Did laundry, had a Chinese dinner and a small wander around town.

Murren is on an elevated plateau above a glacier carved valley.  When we arrived we had clouds above and below us, slight rain, but every now and then a gap would appear and we got fantastic views.

  • The good and the bad of this journey
    • The bus is a bit random- just an ordinary bus, and not foreigner friendly
    • Adventuoursy bus ride – a bit scary in places – but fun
    • Trains – Swiss, thus good
    • Cable car up to Murren was quite something, great scenic ride and great engineering
    • Train along from the cable car to Murren was great fun and rather rough.
    • Overall a fine days exciting travel !

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