GRINDELWALD VILLAGE WALK / THE PRETTIEST VILLAGE IN SWITZERLAND?
hello everybody and get my nando and welcome to grindelwald actually i'm standing here on the in the train station of grindelwald and yeah this is where you most probably you will be arriving here when you're coming to grindelwald this is the train from from interlaken and this is uh the the train will take down to go in order to go to the klein shy deck you know most probably you'll be arriving here and then you know the center train the wagon a walk towards the old town or the old village of grindelwald you're passing the old derby hotel and a little train station all right here's a little kiosk you can buy some chocolates some cigarettes or whatever you like it will be the same place when you leave that's where you get your train tickets and then you get the hell out of here anyway so welcome to the village of grindelwald some say it's the prettiest village in switzerland but i wouldn't agree i mean it's nice here but it's not like the prettiest anyway here's the post office and here the hotel kites on post which is also a long lasting has been here before i have ever first been here anyway so yeah this is the entrance there's a snack bar there's the swiss chocolate chalet which is still closed or they're about to open which is a strange thing i mean it's almost almost midday and it's high season but most people are not here at the village you see it's not so many people here the bus station and by the way of course here is the iger the famous mountain where the north wall is on the other side there where lots of people died and also lots of people climbed it the hotel volta also long lasting and yeah there have been some changes in this village you know this you can see right away which is the new stock they built a new supermarket here and a new parking house and it used to be a lot different but you know what you're gonna do that's that's what time does to us across the street here show you a little bit over here yeah this is all new this platform here there's another platform up there it used to be a lot prettier i tell you i've been coming here for a long time i'm whenever i'm in switzerland we visit the old grindelwald as i might have mentioned in another video and that's the old ski dude which i don't even know if it's old you know because since the whole platform thingy is quite new i mean a few years old i'm not even sure how old he can ride his scooter his skateboards around this is yeah it's one of the good things around of you know of the new the new platform right if you're into that here also here you can take the post buses to go uh to you know different different directions different places to go on hikes or go to go to rides you know so you'll be you'll be passing by here quite a few times so we're lucky with the weather today it was raining yesterday and yeah so we have a few clouds but the sun is back the blue sky is back so here we've got the mettenberg and over there the veteran and it's all beautiful here is the sports center there's also there's a nice skating ring there is a public swimming pool in there and also that's where you can you know organize all kinds of tours there's a tourist information center it's all right here all right all right it's nice i must say i mean it is nice it is particularly now there are not many people i tell you in the afternoon a lot more people of course people come here on a holiday either winter or summer it's about like the 11 12 o'clock it's the best time to take a take a walk because most people are still on a tour because they leave in the morning either they go hiking or they go skiing depending on if it's winter or summer but yeah so then it's not so full but yesterday in the afternoon it was a very very full it's a new playground actually which also is actually quite nice anyway i'll say let's go on the other platform real quick just to show you see i mean it's not so bad yeah there are hundreds of people here last night or in the afternoon late afternoon and they all come back from hikes and then before they go their dinner uh it is nice yeah can't deny it it's a nice platform as well it's another dude plenty harmonica and here there's like an elk is it an elk we don't have alex in switzerland dewey this is a deer i don't know what this is actually i don't know and here is bambi see hello bambi eating i'm sure you didn't know that bambi's is swiss but she is here they remind you to keep social distancing you know because of the old coronavirus anyway yeah yeah and down here there's a yeah there's one of the biggest supermarkets that's the co-op which is one of the big chains in switzerland are never a big a big one down here which is surprising you know in the village you still have the tr you still have the choice of two two of the big supermarkets which is good you know so you don't have to go to the expensive shops only all right of course we wouldn't be in a swiss village if there wasn't a swatch so uh watch shop uh swatch watch shop and the victorinox of course you can buy watches here swiss army knives of course see in all variations a swiss wouldn't buy it here of course you can buy the old cowbells yeah and all kinds of things that switzerland is famous for here's another shop for just knickknacks souvenirs for tourists of course selling all kinds of stuff that us swiss would not wear you know like oh would not we would never buy these little bears no i don't know anyway ski school the grand bazaar some clothing shop yeah also selling lots of lots of souvenirs basically and here you can you can uh rent uh holiday apartments which is probably not a bad bit but whatever you're gonna do and where we're gonna stay here if it's a hotel if it's from these guys from airbnb it's not gonna be cheap that is for sure especially you come you know come during the high season we'll see lots of knickknacks everywhere switzerland switzerland switzerland and you can buy some souvenir to kiosk some cold beer some champagne see that's one of the buses that goes up to the upper glacier and the lower glacier and to all kinds of places really this is a butcher shop um might be still still closed yeah because it's noon see there's a bakery here now of course yeah yeah definitely if you're in switzerland bakeries that's a good good place to go um whenever i'm traveling and wherever i'm traveling it's the swiss bread i miss most because it's the best bread in the world that's for sure all right see here all right it's nice here i must say it's not a restaurant and there's a pharmacy a swiss pharmacy across here see some army dude to the back there and the swiss cow and of course we've got the the french fries the schnitzel the hamburger spaghetti you know all kinds of tourist fare which most of the restaurants are selling you know i don't know international foods here as well it's not it's not only about specialities here it's about what people like to eat see nice old house here of course this so this this is still like the centers like the old grindelwald some of the houses are old some of them are new but yeah it's nice here i like it and this is that one bar that is open at night so when you go out here you might end up coming to that place here the espresso bar but they don't only sell espresso believe me here also here it is you can have your lock lit you can have your fondue flame cooking which will flame cool it's actually not a swiss specialty it's actually a speciality from across across the border to france and from alsace but people still believe it's a swiss speciality right is a hotel and in the restaurant and downstairs there's a club like a disco club this is the other supermarket the negro which is a bit more pricey because this is like a negro partner yeah never mind they're both about the same there's a miniature golf place in case you you get the craving you know for the old tiger woods thingy this is all empty now you will not believe these streets are totally empty not totally see these are school kids they're not tourists there are a couple of tours playing miniature golf this is awesome this is a quite a popular popular restaurant and today is tuesday it says ruehetag which means it's a day off that i've noticed that here lots of these restaurants although it being high season have one or two days off you know that means they can afford it you know now there's another bar here they serve beer colder than your ex-girlfriend and another shop for nate knox and the cow has to be everywhere yeah i can't believe how empty these streets are yeah in a couple hours it will look very different so i'm glad i i came now i thought it'd be a bit late i thought first of all let's go do the walk at 10 o'clock but no all good it would have been totally empty see oswald you can buy your swiss army knives all kinds of things is another restaurant bar i mean these restaurants you know i i never we never go that's a bit expensive and it's not really what we want you know what we would eat it's tourist fair i must say i mean you can get some some authentic food of course but for us i mean i'm not speaking for every swiss but for me it'd be very weird to go to a restaurant and eat a fondue that's something you eat at home with your friends see another post bus we call it a post auto but it's a bus clearly not an order not a car another one of these long-term long time standing hotels you can buy some meats and cheeses and then the hotel park sure neck is also that's an old one in action it's the hotel at the post this is a good place to eat actually i've eaten there before that was really good so i could recommend that definitely anyways we're almost at the end of our little walking tour through the main area of grindelwald and up there that's the first first ride the cable car up to first the top made a video check it out that's a cool cool place yeah basically it's all restaurants and hotels right what would you expect you know if you if you take a walk around you know away from the center and you see like local people maybe i should do a little walking tour in the outskirts not sure but i could do that gustaf steinbach they refurbished it see there's a steinbach this whatever that is i don't even know steinbeck in english let's say steinbeck doesn't matter the grindelwald shop on here that's uh oh the jab truck the vaccination truck is here today oh yeah oh yeah i said i read that yesterday said this is the parking spot will be will be closed and you can get your free free shot here against the good old covid 19. i can't because i don't live here i'm not i'm not health insurance in switzerland yeah the imf truck that means the the vaccination trunk all right that's cool didn't i i wasn't expecting a big truck like this okay yeah you cannot this is i think yeah she was distracted so i think this this is mostly for for the second jab people who get a shot today is a second job so they don't give out first ones interesting huh yeah i'm not gonna i'm not i'm not about to get a shot yet i tried to wait with that shot but you know you i'm not saying it's bad to get a vaccine that get vaccinated at you but that's just i i will wait for a little bit longer salsa restaurant here i can't believe how many how many restaurants and hotels we've passed you know i when i walk that walk around here i don't notice things really see there's some bears here some wooden bears i mentioned in the other video that carving is a big thing in the area see this is pretty cool eh some more bears all right let's go back here i see over there that's the the lower glacier the upper glacier is over there between these two it's just decreasing you can still see there's a some glacier left but it used to come down to the valley and that's over because all the glaciers are decreasing due to climate change of course it is nice sometimes you have to stop for a while and look around you beautiful that's a it's a real privilege you know us being able to use that cabin whenever we're in switzerland so basically whenever switzerland we we arrive and we can go to the stereotypical places you know all right guys there's another ride i think it's called pink stick and there's a toboggan uh area up there and i might actually go up there and make another video but i'm not sure maybe i'll walk it hike it i used to hike up there that's a pretty that's like a three four hour hike not too too much but fair enough still a hike you know anyway so we've basically covered it that was grindelwald of course that was just the main the main artery of the village there's a lot more to see around grindelwald but yeah i wanted to show you like the main very part of the world yeah all right so here's the church far farsi this is i don't know what this is fashion part of the church anyway but of course well this is old this is kind of newish or refurbished it's nice here so that's the church of grindelwald i've shown this in another video the video for the upper glacier yeah that's the bus stop in the church in both directions the museum at museum all right the glacier garden also hotels here i mean tourism is back now although it's still the corona pandemic right but still now it doesn't look so so full of people but in a couple hours it will nice nicer like that you know with the flowers and these are real flowers you know it's real pretty huh old hotel there's an old bakery as well i've been buying bread there for years i've been coming here for the first time i think 15 years ago it's a while ago pretty with the flowers huh anyway guys let's i could go on and on but but the village basically is over here the prettiest village of switzerland yeah i don't know if i can agree oh it's pretty i like it definitely ah this is newsie but they should they should just just build houses in the making of the old styles it's a bit different i think my humble opinion opinion so you can go up four hikes as well here you know basically if you're here and grindelwald the good thing is you can just walk off off these roads you know and then you'll have a you have a have a nice a nice day you know you can do tours of course you can do the old uh cable cars gondolas whatever and you'll have a great time to go high up but even if you just want to go for walks you know just just leave the trails just leave leave the main roads now that's the bakery oh you cannot smell this oh fresh fresh tarts and breads yeah actually i maybe i'm like good breakfast video or something huh what do you say anyway yeah go go buy some stuff for the bakery and make you watch me eat it i don't like that anyway so i'm gonna go down to our house and then call it a day call the video all right guys gonna do that all right all right guys thanks for watching and you know subscribe like comment i'll be all cool all right take good care bye bye from grindelwald
2021-09-07 21:25
