08/15/99

...Bond, James Bond...yeah baby!!! For those of you who know a little something about me....I'm a huge James Bond film...I dare you to name one Bond film that I have seen less than 3 times....won't happen. Well in one of my earlier trips I had gone to Zugspitz in Austria and thought I had seen the top of that in a Bond movie...I wasn't sure then but I am positive that Jungfraujoch was. A little recap on Her Majesty's Secret Service...that's the one where they controlled the minds of the young girls...Bond had to save them and the world...figures what else is new with 007.




So this is the Jungfrau peak, it's 13,642 feet high and at Jungfraujoch where I'm standing it's a little over 11,000 feet. The Jungfraubahnen is Europe's highest rail station...and boy do you pay for it...just a little advance notice for those that want to go up all the way (you get a discount if you are using a Swiss rail pass). Nevertheless I had to get to the top...it was definately worth it.




Once you get outside this is the view of the glacier that you get to see...pretty sweet and you can walk around and that's where this cloudy view picture is of...I'm looking down onto where I started the day at...uh yeah...I wittle ways down. Jungfraujoch is pretty touristy as one can imagine..a bunch of restaurants, snow disks, you can rent a snowboard or skis and go down a tiny bunny run, explore ice caves and for those with the heaftier wallet...you can hire a guide to help you walk across a glacier or for no really good reason stay overnight in an igloo hotel..what??? don't ask me that's what the brochure says.



and this final picture...I know, I know you are thinking "Who is that cheesy tourist?" I call this the proof picture...I've always got to have one of these...since somebody, usually my mom, will ask why aren't you in any of your pictures? The toughest part here is trying to figure out what language to ask "Excuse me will you take my picture?"...tourist sign language seems to work best, the world wide recognized language of non-bilingual speakers.



Ah jeez what a trip...what you mean I have to go down? drive back? go to work....I don't want to...I'll pay someone to impersonate me....Well if I gotta. And besides maybe I can come back to the Alps next weekend, guess we'll have to wait and see. Auf Wiedershen.




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I don't want to go back either, take me to Day One or Day Two