Switzerland 2025 - Day 2 / First and Lauterbrunnen

Steps today: 24 772 / 16.34 km

For Day 2, we started with a hike up at First in Grindelwald. 

I had forgotten the cable car ride up was almost a half an hour!

Like our last visit 11 years ago, we picked the hike to the Lake (Bachalpsee) - which is just under 2 hours there and back but took us closer to 2.5 since I kept stopping for pictures.

The trail was quite crowded but I managed to get some clear shots, and it was more strenuous than I remembered... but it was a decade ago!

We were really lucky with the weather because the fog rolled in on the way back and the views disappeared.

Predictably after this it was time for lunch. Chässchnitte - a typically Swiss Dish which I love!

We decided to go over to Lauterbrunnen for the rest of the afternoon; we didn't walk the entire valley because we had plans to do that on another day, but just enough of a walk to feel like we burned off lunch!

And you guessed it - an Aperol Spritz stop too!

By about 5PM we decided to pack it in, headed back to Wilderswil and had supper at the Italian Restaurant across the street from the hotel.

Here you can see the restaurant on the right, and our hotel on the left. 

It was perfect! Couldn't be closer for us to roll into bed with full bellies around 8ish.