Adam and I still have lots of places we want to visit within Switzerland and outside. One thing we desperately wanted to see before we leave Europe is the Matterhorn. We risked it and went down for the weekend. There was a forecast of cloudy Saturday and Sunday so we decided to head down on Friday and hope to catch a glimpse of it.
So the drive down was quite unusual. The GPS took us off of the high way and onto probably one of the scariest drives we've been on over here. We thought the Amalfi coast was going to be stressful. This was a very narrow two lane road that switchbacked up an enormous mountain. There were hardly any towns or rest stops as we were heading up, which was very unfortunate for me because I had to go to the bathroom. Thank you to my post pregnancy bladder! Finally at the very top there was a rest stop. We got out walked around, realized there was a glacier you could hike at, and used the rest room. It was beautiful at the top. The glacier was so cool to see.
We started heading back down and that's where the worse trouble started...Car sickness. I was in the back seat with Henri and it was awful on a switch back road. I pulled it together thankfully, however the beamer car that kept passing us was pulled over multiple times. I believe his lady passenger couldn't handle it either.
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| You can see the road going down...it was rough! |
We get to Tasch, Zermatt doesn't allow cars, park and take the train into Zermatt. We are walking around town looking for our hotel and look up, and there is the Matterhorn in all of its glory. It was huge and very cool to see. We found our apartment and went upstairs to the group room to take more pictures of it. We decide just to walk around town that night and get an early dinner, so we could get to bed early and go hiking the next day. The town was so cute. Lots of little pastry shops, cute stores, and tons of restaurants. It is such a great town to relax in and stroll around.
The next day we took a gondola up to Blauhard. We hiked around to a lake and then over to a restaurant. Henri was all smiles hiking around and hanging out at the restaurant. He really does love nature and water. We were able to sit outside so we just had mountains in and all around us. It was a great setting for a long leisurely lunch. Unfortunately the rest of the hike said 3 hours but in terms of our hiking it would most likely be 5 and we weren't prepared for that with henri. So we hiked back to the gondola and took it down. We again took in an early dinner, nothing special. Then walked around town till it was henri's bed time.
Sunday we enjoyed a little more time in town and left after lunch. We decided to take a different route home so we could stop in Gruyere. Adam was dying to get some cheese I guess =) It is a very cute town up on the hill. We toured the castle and walked around the small town. Afterwards, we got dinner at the cheese shop then hopped in the car to head home. We hit the worst rain storm as we headed home. My sweet baby was asleep in the back of the car and I'm doing everything not to freak out as we hydroplane a few times. I'm talking torrential rain. We made it safe and sound. I had to say quite a few prayers to calm myself down.
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| Gruyere |
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| Looking out of the Castle in Gruyere |
Overall, Zermatt was awesome. I would love to go back again and hangout in the small town.
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