View from our balcony
After a two and a half hour train ride we arrived at Zermatt and the Matterhorn. The town is a car free area and everyone gets around by walking or in electric golf cart like vehicles. Since we were not sure of where our hotel was and we were aware it was about 10 minutes from the train station we voted to take a taxi. Small as these vehicles are and how narrow the streets are, the drivers can still scare the daylights out of you. Maybe when we leave we will walk back down. As we travelled up to our hotel we were getting closer and closer to the famous mountain. The Hotel Bijou and our room’s balcony has an unobstructed view of the Matterhorn. All the books wrote about the mystical draw and it certainly is true. One of the things you have to do while in Zermatt is travel to the top. There are no cable cars on the Matterhorn which is at 14,690 feet but you can get up on the Klien Matterhorn which is at a height of 12,530 feet. So off we went, to get to the top you have to take four cable cars, but the top certainly doesn’t disappoint. The top was like being at the top of the world, beautiful clear blue skies with the peaks covered in white snow. Unforgettable!!!!
Later in the day we wandered the streets of Zermatt down to the train station to travel down to the next town Tasch in hunt of some goats which I saw on the trip up. You might be asking what is so special about a goat, well anyone who knows me, knows that I have an affinity for any animals, and these guys are black and white. So we arrive in Tasch at approx 26 degree temp to go goat hunting, if it hadn’t been for their bells we might not have found them. They were lying in the shade of the trees and only one was walking around. We walked through a field to get a closer look, and to our surprise they were as curious of us as we were of them. Soon they were all running toward the fence, babies in tow. Yeah another excellent day, and the day just kept getting better. Since we won the lottery with the view off our deck we decided to pick up a picnic lunch and have supper on our deck. What a great way to end a perfect day.
