Gimmelwald, Switzerland

Getting to Gimmelwald is quite the production. You have to take the train out of Interlaken to another small town, and then from there, you catch a bus. After the bus, you take a gondola up several thousand meters into the Alps. You get off 5 minutes later, and viola, you are in Gimmelwald, Switzerland, a town way up in the Alps, with maybe 1000 inhabitants and phenomenal hiking. Other than hiking and looking at vistas that you’ll have to remind yourself are real, there’s not much to do here.

As fate may have it there were very cool people hanging around. One of the people I met was eating a sandwich, when out of the blue, a cat ran up, snatched it, and gobbled it. To thank the kitty my friend gave the kitty a ride down a slide that was near our hostel. To my surprise, the cat really loved it, because when it came out, it was frantically running, looking for the ladder back up.

Next Stop: Naples, Italy