Valentinas Travels

At least one positive thing I can take away from the corona crisis is that it allows me to discover Switzerland intensively. Even if I can't travel far, I can at least work through my list of pending hiking destinations. And every time I am thrilled again how beautiful our country actually is (I guess I write this in every blog, sorry if I bore you with it!) So here is another, quite enthusiastic post about my hiking weekend in the Bernese Oberland last week, which I did with 2 friends.  Lauterbrunnen is a place I did not know before, but I had heard a lot about it. Embarrassingly mostly from foreign friends. I knew that the area is a Mecca for outdoor enthusiasts (especially for base jumpers), starting point for many trips to the Jungfrau region and that it inspired J.R. Tolkien for his "Lord of the Rings" books.  So it was high time to explore the area!  We had 2 days to explore Lauterbrunnen area and started our first hike in Mürren , a beautiful villa

For a long time I had been dreaming of spending the night somewhere where you have a fantastic view from your bed in the morning - without having to put a toe on the floor at all. Last week this little dream came true - we stayed at the Fluhalp mountain hut above Zermatt and the weather could not have been better. The Matterhorn, probably the most famous mountain of Switzerland, showed itself in full beauty! Here is a little photographic report. We reached Zermatt around noon. Because of the somewhat special situation, for which a nasty little word with C... is responsible, it had few foreign tourists, but a lot more Swiss people, all dressed in proper hiking clothes.  Soon we were sitting in the train in direction to Sunnegga station, from there we continued to the station Blauherd (2'571 m). Up there, everything was plunged into dense fog, the Matterhorn or any other mountain was out of sight. We started our hike to the Fluhalp hut and as if the weather god ha