As you have by now realized, this country abounds in gorgeous vistas. You can't make a step in any direction without being completely amazed by the beauty of local landscapes, lakes, mountains,valleys, vineyards, etc. The Swiss take full advantage of that and offer tourists and locals, rides on these glass ceiling trains where you can relax all day and take in the beauty of the Swiss countryside.
That's exactly what the Golden Pass does.
We bought tickets to go from Geneva to a Swiss German town of Zweisimmen. Nothing special about our destination, it just seemed like a good stopping and turnaround point.
We got up early, hopped on a regional train to Montreux where the Golden Pass was picking up. That day the train was all sold out - at least that's what we were told - and I could not reserve seats for up ahead of time, so when we showed up we were told to go sit wherever there were openings. So we proceeded to sit in 1st class and actually stayed there the whole time on the way out! It was great.
The weather was gorgeous and Katherine behaved so it was a super fun day from start to finish.
We had lunch in Zweisimmen, walked around town and hopped back on the train back.
You think these people have enough gnomes in their garden?..
One advantage of the Golden Pass line is the fact that you can hop on and hop off in any town along the route and spend some time there. Then you pick up the next train about 2 hours later. We took advantage of that and got off in Chateau D'Oex. If you know anything about french, you'll know that the word "chateau" means "castle". Contrary to the name, there is NO castle in Chateau D'Oex. It is however a very cute little town which has a panoramic funicular taking visitors to the top of an overlooking moutain. The same funicular is used by skiiers in the winter.
We had no idea what we were going to do in Chateau D'Oex ahead of time, it just sounded cool, so the fact that we found the cable car and the cool mountain was a super bonus. Check out the views!!
We went on a crazy little hike scrambling up a mountain with Katherine in the BabyBjorn. It was super steep! I thought I was going to fall off the side of the hill haha....
Overall the trip took the majority of the day and it was well worth the ticket price (which by the way was really reasonable for Switzerland). Fun times!
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