Category: Switzerland

We chose Lauterbrunnen as our base for our family holiday to Switzerland, spending a week exploring the beautiful mountains of the 'Bernese Oberland' region before heading down to Italy the next week for a slightly more relaxing stay near Lake Garda. Here's details of our Switzerland holiday itinerary... There is so much to see and do in Switzerland; it's one…

We picked Lauterbrunnen for the first half of our two-week summer road trip to Switzerland and Italy. It's a small town in the middle of the 'Bernese Oberland' region, close to the famous Swiss ski resorts of Wengen and Grindlewald. Bev had been here camping as a child and remembered its reputation as one of the most beautiful towns in…

The highlight of our week in Switzerland was our trip to the Jungfraujoch. We were here with our four children and had an amazing day. Here's our advice on visiting the Jungfraujoch with children... During our stay in Lauterbrunnen, the one excursion that stood out amongst them all as the big one to do was the trip up to the…

One day of our week in Lauterbrunnen was very rainy so we decided on visiting Trummelbach Falls, which is at the end of the Lauterbrunnen valley. It’s an enormous waterfall of melting glacier ice which cascades down inside the cliff face, through caves and crevices. There is a walkway that takes you up and down right next to the waterfall…

Another beautiful sunny and warm day for exploring the Lauterbrunnen region. This time we headed in to Lauterbrunnen centre, parked the car by the railway station and got on the 'Grutschalp' lift, which takes you up to a train which runs from there to Winteregg and then on to Murren. Murren is a classic Swiss postcard town, dotted with chalets…

We awoke on this day of our holiday to Switzerland to glorious sunshine and blue skies so decided to drive the few miles along the road to the village of Grindlewald - a place so insanely beautiful it just has to be seen to be believed. We seemed to be permanently in a state of amazement as we gazed around in…

Taking a family of six on holiday on a plane is always an expensive business. For us to fly to Switzerland, we were looking at the best part of £2,000. Hiring a car that fits all six of us ramps the cost up even further. We need a seven-seater and they are always a lot more expensive than hiring a…

We took a paddle steamer boat trip on Lake Thun from Interlaken. Here's what we got up to... The weather in and around the Lauterbrunnen valley on the first day of our trip here wasn't great. We woke up to heavy cloud shrouding the surrounding mountains and rain showers, making it less than ideal to head up in to the…

After our previous visit to Grindlewald earlier in the week we headed back here again and tried a different lift, heading up to 'Grindlewald First'. This was a longer lift and a higher altitude where it was noticeably colder at the top compared with the bottom. Here they have a range of activities for kids and adults including a brilliant…

This restaurant in Lauterbrunnen is in the Camping Jungfrau campsite, but is open to guests who aren't staying in the campsite... Most things in Lauterbrunnen are expensive by UK standards - restaurants included - and we were advised that this was the best value of the restaurants in Lauterbrunnen, which I would agree with. It's quite a small restaurant with…

'Francis Flat' is an apartment on the top floor of a large chalet in Lauterbrunnen. It's a private holiday rental operated by the owner Helena, sleeping up to 6 people, located in what has to be the best position in the whole of Lauterbrunnen. *** UPDATE: Unfortunately the owner sold the property a couple of years after this post, so…