wurlycorner wrote:Where/how do you pick your route and what you're heading off to see, before you set off on these epic adventures sailor?
Last year's theme was "stringed musical instruments", so we researched a few places where guitars and violins were made, then joined the dots. We also allowed ourselves to get side-tracked if we saw or heard of something interesting.
This year was a hybrid. The 'alphabet' theme is pure whimsy; joining the dots had to be by interesting roads where possible. Any urban or other human-based stuff, we took as we found it.
We didn't stop in our "W". (The picture's blurred, but not because I was exceeding the speed limit!)
We stayed in Lauterbrunnen, in the valley of the 72 waterfalls. This was the evening view from our hotel balcony:-
And looking to the right, we could see the Jungfrau:-
In the middle of the tourist stuff, a veg garden!
Many of the waterfalls could be seen from the road. We visited two of them.
The Staubbachfall has a single drop of 297m:
The Trummelbachfaelle is a sytem of at least 10 intertwining cascades
inside the mountain, formed from glacier-melt that's worn its way down through the rock:
We turned for home. There were still a couple of days to go. Gruyeres made for a good break.
Our stop for the night was in the old lakeside town of Murten:
Some older features have been retained!
Only guests in a hotel that big... 
does that tell you something? 
