To the Top of Europe
We had one goal for the day: get to the top of Europe, aka Jungfraujoch. It is home to the highest railroad station in Europe, taking visitors far up into the Alps. Our journey for the day would involve several trains and a gondola--and making all of them required spot-on timing. Luckily, the Celtics won their game seven, so Penn--who had been up from 2:30 am to about 5 am--was tired but happy to go. We were off. The train climbed higher and higher, eventually dropping us at a transfer station to catch the Eiger Express. This gondola--as the name suggests--zips visitors up the mountain and alongside the Eiger, which rises over 13,000 feet in the Bernese Alps. The views--as we had come to expect in the Berner Oberland region--were beautiful as far as the eye could see, made even moreso by the absence of any obstructions as we floated along. You can see the shadow of our gondola in one of the photos below. And here we are inside: We sailed up among the very tops of the...