What a day! Early start today for our tour scheduled to leave at 8.30am, but we've got these trams and buses sorted, so no problem. Our coach was unusual with only an upstairs area, no downstairs at all. There were 50 people on today's outing, from all different countries. We set out from Zurich, stopping at Lucerne to collect more passengers before continuing to Interlaken for a coffee break. Then it was straight on to Lauterbrunnen to catch the cog wheel train up to Jungfraujoch (the 3rd highest mountain in the Bernese Alps) to the highest train station in the world. Our tour guide was very good at pointing out the best camera vantage points on the coach trip, and even ran off with my iPad to take a shot of Mt Eiger from the other side of the train for me, unasked! He was quite a character, but then keeping 50 adults from all different cultures organised and in the right place - bit like being a teacher! The trip up by train took an hour or so, changing trains part way up, and being snowed on in the process! We stopped twice for our bodies to adjust to the altitude changes. I didn't know there was a possibility of getting altitude sickness, and this made me quite uncomfortable (I have a thing about my health these days, and not doing things that are not worth the trouble). So the arrival at Jungfraujoch is by tunnel, and you get around with tunnels, lifts and stairs. We went first to what they call the sphinx, the building on top of the mountain. We could see nothing outside, it was all covered up with snow. I elected not to go outside (feeling a little light headed) but Tom went out and took some pics. He said it was blowing a blizzard outside. So no breathtaking views of France, Germany and Italy today. The next stop was the ice palace, a long tunnel in the ice, even with ice floors, and little galleries of ice sculptures. We were then supposed to go out on the plateau to play in the snow (!) but it was closed because of the blizzard. So then it was a matter of lunch from the cafeteria (at about 2pm by this stage). Then into the trains for the 35 minute trip back down to the beautiful village of Grindelwald and the long coach trip back to Zurich. We arrived back to our hostel sometime after 8pm. So 'twas a long day, a little disappointing, but you can't control the weather, but there were lovely views along the way and it's all part of the adventure! I meant to tell you yesterday that because the Swiss have four official languages, it means that all of their election paperwork, all official stuff, has to be printed in the four languages!