Meiringen

Meiringen is a bustling little town about 2 hours away from Zürich by train. It is nestled in the Alps and surrounded by mountain peaks. It is the town where the character of Sherlock Holmes died in a waterfall (Reichenbach Falls) and then was brought back to life 3 years later by his author due to popular demand. This fact alone lures a lot of tourists to Meiringen, where you can see the falls and tour a Sherlock Holmes museum. There is even a statue of him in the center of town.

Meiringen is surrounded by hiking trails and ski trails and it is where we stayed in order to hike to the Trift Glacier, which I'll write about in my next post. You can also tour gorges formed in the limestone by the Rosenlaui and Aare rivers. They are apparently quite impressive. Martin and I have to get back to Meiringen to see Reichenbach Falls and the limestone gorges, and of course to do some more hiking or possibly some skiing over the winter.

And it's a cute little town too:



I only took these two pictures but you get the idea. I wanted to take more but did not have my camera when we wandered around town, of course.



In the evenings this huge bank of fog rolls in through a break in the mountains on one side of Meiringen. You can literally look up there while walking down the street and see this river of fog flowing into the valley. It was really neat and it flows pretty quickly. But sorry, I didn't get a picture of it so you'll have to go see it for yourself. The train ride in/out of Meiringen goes through this river of fog and that's actually where our train got stuck on our way out of town. It was pretty spooky. I can't imagine living someplace that gets socked in by fog every evening in the fall and winter.