Switzerland day 44: The Climbs of Grindelwald (part 2)

October 2nd: A much less busy day. We mainly wanted to go up First. (On the first day, we didn’t do First. But on the second day, we did First first.)

Base station for the First cable car.

Near the top. First has four rides you can pay to do. This is the upper end of the zip line and glider rides. You can also take a go-kart partway down, and then a scooter the rest of the way. I wasn’t very interested in that sort of thing.

The glider ride.

I did, however, regret not looking into the parasailing. There were some awesome updrafts and it looked like you could stay up all day if you wanted to. Maybe next time.

Carol and I parted ways; she hiked out to the Bachalpsee, while I stayed closer to home and did the cliff walk.

Bachalpsee (courtesey of Carol)

The cliff was seriously under-cut.

The cliff walk ends at the restaurant, with a jutting platform for taking selfies.

I hiked up to the top of the cliff to get this view.

And then went back to get a selfie on the platform.

Carol was still hiking, so I grabbed lunch at the Bergrestaurant.

Salad bar, bread, and a slice of apple pie.

When Carol got close to back, I told her to take the cliff walk, and climbed back up on top of the cliff to catch her on it.

Carol on the suspension bridge section of the cliff walk.

Almost to the restaurant.

There was nothing noteworthy about the descent, since we just took the same cable car. Dinner was at Da Salvi, an Italian restaurant in a hotel.

Carol got lasagna, I went for a rabbit stew with polenta. I was reminded of the rabbit scene in Local Hero (1983).

On the way back up the hill, our bus had to stop for cattle.