Cogwheels and Gondolas

11 November 2022

Chandelier in restaurant

We've had a great couple of days. We got up and went to breakfast - the same room we had dinner in last night. It was a buffet so Lesley brought me a couple of things from there- eggs, bacon, fruit, hash browns and some rolls.

Breakfast

And also some vitamin juice which was a mixture. .

Mike signing the breakfast bill

I also had hot tea

I have seen three different ways to deal with tea leaves. At the hotel in Amsterdam they were in a tea press

Tea press

In the place we ate lunch, there was a little metal triangular thing with tea leaves and you put it on top of your glass and poured hot water through it. Then you took it off the top of your glass and put it in a little holder so it didn't drip all over the table.

Tea

This place doesn't give you loose tea - they give you the tea bag in the glass of hot water

Tea bag

and there is a little dish over top of the glass. You take your teabag out of the glass and put it in the dish.

After breakfast the four of us (minus Mike) got into our fancy Mercedes van and drove over to where there was a little wooden train which I think was a cogwheel train.

Cogwheel train conductor

Cabrio ticket and Me on the way up

Starting up

I saw some cows fom the train. Some people saw goats too.

Cows on the right

The train went about halfway up the mountain and then we switched to a two story gondola. I stayed downstairs with the scooter (by choice)

Cabrio station

Lesley and the ladies and the guide all went upstairs - the upstairs was open - no top roof or side glass.

Lesley on the top of the gondola

Two of Lesley's photos from there

Tunnel

Haystack

Empty Gondola going down

Town and lake below

IN-Love-with-Switzerland

Me on my scooter at the top

It was a lovely clear sunny day. We could see for miles

At the top

Clouds

Right - My reflection

Wheels

Looking up to the top

When we got to the top of Stanserhorn, the ladies and Lesley and the guide walked up a path to the top,

Two of Lesley's photos of their hike

I scootered around the building,

Sign and Hanging menu

including into the little cafeteria and gift shop.

Roof Inside

After a bit, I went and sat in the restaurant area. Frederico asked me if I wanted anything and I thought maybe I would like a hot chocolate. Apparently there you make your own, so he made one for me and also brought a bottle of water.

Placemat, and Water and cocoa

When Lesley got back, she brought me some

Pumpkin soup

which seems to be the Defacto autumn soup even though I am pretty sure that pumpkins are a new world vegetable) and

Cheese and bread and nibbles

We each ate half.

Getting ready to go down

Schedule for going down

We had a reservation to go down at 11:45 through AMA and they said they didn't need to see my ticket because they remembered me.

From one gondola to the another

We went down more or less the same way we went up in reverse.

Gondola going up

Church steeple

Our van met us and took us back to the hotel

Happy shopping sign

Back of a milk truck

Fredrico on my scooter talking to our driver

I went back to my room, and the other four took a walking tour and while they did that,

Wooden bridge over the lake

Wedding on the walking tour

They tried to figure out where I could go to dinner that wouldn't have steps.

I wanted to revisit having fondue.

They said that the Restaurant Fritschi which had painting on the facade like they do in Bavaria was fairly accessible. So we went over there - I took photos of the big wooden bridge and the sunset on the way.

Lake shore in the evening

Sunset

Going to the restaurant

Restaurant Fritschi

Mike had cordon bleu, and Lesley and I share a cheese fondue with bread and potatoes to dip into it.

Fondue

It was delicious

They told me not to have dessert and when we got back to the hotel

Traffic in the evening

Selfie in the elevator

they gave me a fancy gingerbread cookie with the face of Rudolph on it.

Gingerbread cookie

I was going to save it, but I bit off three of the star points, and then before I knew it, the whole rest of the cookie was gone.

I found something in English on the TV, and then I basically went to sleep with both the TV and computer on. I waked up hearing a girl saying "You have to tell me where he is". I thought she was in the hall outside the room, but it was the TV. So I turned it off and took my pills and went to bed again. I didn't sleep well because the bed was saggy and my hip bones bottomed out and were became sore.