On the last morning I’d planned to go up towards the Jungfrau to see the snow. In my notes I’d written down that it was the highest peak in the Alps.
I love snow and wanted a photo up there, but the fare put me off :D A return by train and cable car was 7.2 million đồng 😈😈 I’d seen a three-day Jungfrau Travel Pass for 6.5 million that included the trip to Jungfraujoch. I figured I’d have bought it at the start if I’d planned on going up.
I was only going around Interlaken, so I bought tickets for each leg. Two days of trains and buses cost 2 million đồng. Buying the pass without checking would have cost me 4.5 million extra 😗
At 10:00 am I checked out, walked to the nearby church for Sunday service.
There was a sign outside the door saying the church was closed because of an event, I pushed the door in, there was a girl sitting at the back who signaled me not to go in, but I was going to the service, no worries:D
I'm not sure if he's a priest or a teacher, he's in a shirt and trousers, he'll not be in the church anymore. 🙊
After the service, everyone puts money (voluntarily) in two small iron boxes at the end of the church, I also put a few single CHF coins.
Outside the church I just checked my message on Booking, hostel message I have not paid city tax: D this is because they do not charge at check-in, not that I evade tax 😆
Hold this 5-CHF coin and pay back 3.5 CHF in taxes, that's a shame.
Walk to the train station to get back to Interlaken.
I think these three were travelling without tickets. A train employee and a security guard were standing with them, and things looked tense. About twenty minutes passed and they were still there. I saw money change hands, so I guessed they were paying the €60 fine each 😐
I paid for the train ticket from Interlaken Ost to Frankfurt, but because of the railway repairs the train did not go through Basel as originally planned, I could choose any means of transport to get back to Frankfurt, so I proactively chose the train to have time to play a few hours in Bern, a few hours at Zurich.
At Interlaken, I took the EV1 bus to go back to Spiez, I did not buy a ticket because the bus was already included in the original ticket.
From Spiez we took the ferry to Bern, and we had about two hours to play in Bern.
At Bern station, I searched maps to find the nearest restaurant and walked there, this lunchbox was my choice, 14 CHF (430k) still cheaper in Interlaken.
The two kids pulled their scooters and ran after their parents to get on the bus :D
Bern has an old town, a clock tower and the home of Einstein, but I don't have much time so I waited for the train.
I took IC8 to Zurich, I sat next to some guys from the Swiss army, I was going to take a picture of the shirt logo and I went to sleep:D, I was asleep and he went to check the ticket and called me up, I was a little worried but I gave the ticket out, I didn't know what else to do. The guy scanned the wrong ticket, asked if I had another ticket, I sent an email about the train disruption, and then the guy said, "Okay, now it's easy." Haha 😆😇
At Zurich HB
Zurich is rainy and cold, so I made my raincoat waterproof so I could go out in the rain, and the sights are close together.
Go to the supermarket for milk, sausages for dinner.
An hour before the train departs I only noticed the mistake, that there is no terminal to board IC60402, I stood in front of the information board to wait, out of the ticket machine to check, the service center closed.
Luckily I found a railway employee to ask. He told me to wait on platform 18 and said IC 60402 and NJ 402 were the same train. I boarded the first-class car by mistake, thinking first class meant a sleeper :D I got back off and found a seat marked 2 one carriage down.
After you go to check the ticket, I gave QR to scan, I was going to say what to say but she did not ask anything: D, when I went to the bathroom only see the train schedule sticker on the door, there is going through Frankfurt but not 100% accurate, making me wake up all night to see where the train stops 😓 I have searched for all the sources do not see the schedule of the train is updated anywhere. In the case of a direct train to Cologne, there is no wandering around the station, but you will probably have to spend millions to buy a ticket back to Frankfurt.
Although a little bit fake, the train arrived at Frankfurt am main Hbf at 3:13 as stated on the app.
It was three in the morning in Frankfurt, around 8 or 9°C. There were lots of people sleeping rough in the station, and I had nowhere to sleep either :))) I wandered around, sat down for a while, then a guard asked me to get up. Down another level, a woman who seemed unwell looked at me, started crying and spoke incoherently. I could smell urine from several metres away. She hadn’t done anything to me, and there were a few other people around, but it didn’t feel like somewhere to stay. I went into McDonald’s. It was my first time eating there. I’d never bought anything at McDonald’s in Vietnam.
There were four ordering screens by the counter, so I tried one and got a hamburger and ginger tea for 150,000 đồng. That was cheaper than I’d expected. I paid by card, and when the food was ready I took my receipt up to collect it.
After dinner, I forgot to sleep there, I sat there for an hour or two, waited until 7:00 a.m. and walked to the adidas store to buy shoes.
I like this atmosphere :D
It's cold, walking for a while is a little help but still have to sit in the sun to get warm, walking, going to the supermarket to buy things until 10:00 the store here only opens.
There are two big shoe stores in the mall that ask for hiking shoes so you go to the airport.
I should have taken the train to Terminal 1 and then the train to terminal 2, but on Google maps it's only to Gateway Gardens, walk 1.5km to T2, so fool:)))
At check-in the man was surprised when I said I had nothing to check in. I just had my six-kilo backpack.
I checked in on the app seat 32A but when check-in at the counter was seat three or four K, on that trip there are probably dozens of seats, the young man sitting next to me asked to sit with my mother so the seat is more comfortable.
Normally check tickets at the gate but VNA check tickets at lounge door one hour before to make sure, finally still delayed more than 30' 😎
There are some sections I found the lowering of the altitude a little bit, flying 11 hours but because of the mental preparation before so I did not feel constrained or uncomfortable.
Back to Vietnam, at the security scanner asked me again, asked where to go, no checked luggage 😆 I said no.
Lightweight is the way to go 😎
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