{"id":5543,"date":"2012-08-17T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2012-08-20T08:38:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T06:38:21","slug":"kiwis-in-lauterbrunnen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2012\/08\/kiwis-in-lauterbrunnen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwis in Lauterbrunnen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon and Anita stormed into Lauterbrunnen yesterday as part of their 49 day all-you-can-eat Europe tour. I caught up with them briefly in the evening and then again today. We decided to be ueber tourists and paid the highly excessive 146 Swiss Francs (inclusive of group discount) to get the train up to the Jungfraujoch at the &#8220;Top of Europe&#8221; (as they so often liked to remind us &#8211; perhaps so that we didn&#8217;t revolt at the exorbitant price we had paid).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bearsjungfraujochswitzerland_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bears (Jungfraujoch, Switzerland) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bearsjungfraujochswitzerland_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/eaglesjungfraujochswitzerland_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eagles (Jungfraujoch, Switzerland) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/eaglesjungfraujochswitzerland_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: On the plus side they did have eagles and bears in a cave carved from ice. Of course it was teaming with tourists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/simonisamoronswitzerland_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Simon is a moron (Switzerland) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/simonisamoronswitzerland_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/simonisanejitlauterbrunnenswitzerland_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Simon is an ejit (Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/simonisanejitlauterbrunnenswitzerland_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: Clearly Simon hasn&#8217;t changed a bit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/simonisasianjungfraujochswitzerland_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Simon is asian (Jungfraujoch, Switzerland) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/simonisasianjungfraujochswitzerland_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/atthe-topofeurope-switzerland_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"At the -Top of Europe-, Switzerland resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/atthe-topofeurope-switzerland_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: Much snappage at the Jungfraujoch. Simon does his best Asian impression.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/veryswissjungfraujochswitzerland_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Very Swiss (Jungfraujoch, Switzerland) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/veryswissjungfraujochswitzerland_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/simonlearnstoflyjungfraujochswitzerland_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Simon learns to fly (Jungfraujoch, Switzerland) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/simonlearnstoflyjungfraujochswitzerland_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above left: So very Swiss. Above right: Simon keeping the tourist industry running with a quick flying fox at approx. 3600 m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/viewdowntheglacierjungfraujochswitzerland_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"View down the glacier (Jungfraujoch, Switzerland) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/viewdowntheglacierjungfraujochswitzerland_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/viewdownthevalley2wengenswitzerland_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"View down the valley 2 (Wengen, Switzerland) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/viewdownthevalley2wengenswitzerland_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Above left: View down to glacier. Above right: The view down to the Lauterbrunnen valley. Quite picturesque really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon and Anita stormed into Lauterbrunnen yesterday as part of their 49 day all-you-can-eat Europe tour. I caught up with them briefly in the evening and then again today. We decided to be ueber tourists and paid the highly excessive 146 Swiss Francs (inclusive of group discount) to get the train up to the Jungfraujoch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-switzerland","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5544,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions\/5544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}