Getting to Murren

Train travel is so nifty.
-- Just show up at the train station 5-10 minutes before your train leaves, find your platform, and get on your train.
-- Luggage is no problem (size, weight, extra cost, etc), except carrying it up or down steps in many train stations. There are elevators in almost all stations.
-- Seats are wide and comfortable (often lots of empty seats). Convenient tables and plugs. Plenty of room to spread out and wide aisles to walk around in.
-- Schedules are easy to look up on apps, and trains to different cities are frequent, sometimes every 20 minutes.

We took multiple trains today. First, from Lausanne to Montreax, then on the Golden Pass scenic train to Interlaken ("between lakes"). Then, it got complicated.

Today's destination was Murren, a town on a cliff. No main roads go to the town and there are few vehicles (mainly construction or maintenance or a very few 4WDs). To get there - higher in the mountains - we took a mountain train/cog train. Next was a large cable car, and then another cog train to Murren. This whole process, from Interlaken (at the valley floor) to Murren took 30 minutes. Fortunately there are restaurants, hotels and one small grocery store here. Enough for us!

Many different lifts, cable cars, and other contraptions get people to the tops of the nearby mountains. From our hotel, we can see many glaciers. Tomorrow, we'll explore.Läs mer