Summer '16 Trip: Day 14

Kayla got me up at about 8:45 on Day 14 so that we could get ready, have breakfast, and check out of our hostel. We weren’t leaving Interlaken right away, but as is normal with hostels, check out time was at 10 am. Breakfast was free at this hostel, so that was nice! Especially since it was the usual toast, yogurt, and bland cereal spread.

We put our bags in a day locker after we checked out and then set off into the main part of town to do some shopping. Kayla got some gifts and things, and I got myself a cute little Swiss Army Knife! I even got it engraved with my initials (no extra charge!)

After an hour or so of that, we went back to the hostel to retrieve our things and then made our way to the train station. We caught a train to Bern at noon, and then switched to one that would take us back to Zurich. I couldn’t stop looking out the window; you wouldn’t believe how pretty and turquoise and perfect the mountain lakes were. I’ll never forget that train ride from Interlaken to Bern. It was like taking a train through heaven!

At the Zurich Hauptbahnhof, we decided to go reserve seats for our trains back to Berlin. Once again, we had to wait kind of a long time (what is it with Switzerland and long lines?!), but it all worked out fine.

Starving (it was after 3 pm at this point), we took the tram back to the AirBNB and made grilled cheese sandwiches. They probably weren’t even that good, but it tasted like the best sandwich I’d ever had in that moment.

We changed into swimsuits and headed back into the city center to find a place to tan. I would’ve loved to have gone swimming, but we didn’t have much time, and the water must’ve been freezing cold anyway.

Before we tanned, we got the ice cream we’d been craving for a whole day at a fancy little place we saw on Wednesday when we were exploring. It was delicious! And worth the wait.

The only place where people were tanning you had to pay to get into, but we were fine with that. Most of the tanning decks at the place were really crowded, so we went to the farthest left one to set up camp. However, before we could even take off our shoes, a man came and told us that we were in the men’s only section. We couldn’t even be embarrassed because it was so funny. Who’s ever even heard of a men’s only section, anyway??

So we found a small space to put down our towels in one of the normal tanning areas, and stayed there for a while. It felt so nice. 

We laid out for a while, and then took the tram back to the apartment to shower. We had dinner, did a little more laundry, and cleaned up the apartment some. The host had asked us to do a couple things, and even left us a little money for our trouble. After getting as packed as we possibly could, we went to bed for the last time in Switzerland. Sad, but I’m getting excited to go home soon!