One week ago, I got home from a twice-delayed vacation to Europe, and I'm sorting through the many photos I took. I flew into Frankfurt, and drove through or visited seven countries -- Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, and Austria -- over the course of seventeen days.
In Switzerland, I stayed in the Alpine town of Grindelwald, and on Sunday, April 10, I took a series of trains to the Jungfraujoch, which is a glacial saddle connecting two mountains. The railway station there is the highest in Europe, at 11,332 feet. From the railway station and visitors center, you take an elevator up another 387 feet to the viewing platform on a mountain called the Sphinx.
There is always snow here, and temperatures rise above freezing only on a few days in the middle of the summer. On the day I visited, the temperature was 1 degree Fahrenheit, and there was a 20 mph wind. The thin air was kicking my butt, and I really had to pace myself, but oh what views!
Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe | jungfrau.ch
In Switzerland, I stayed in the Alpine town of Grindelwald, and on Sunday, April 10, I took a series of trains to the Jungfraujoch, which is a glacial saddle connecting two mountains. The railway station there is the highest in Europe, at 11,332 feet. From the railway station and visitors center, you take an elevator up another 387 feet to the viewing platform on a mountain called the Sphinx.
There is always snow here, and temperatures rise above freezing only on a few days in the middle of the summer. On the day I visited, the temperature was 1 degree Fahrenheit, and there was a 20 mph wind. The thin air was kicking my butt, and I really had to pace myself, but oh what views!
Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe | jungfrau.ch
