Honeymoon 2016

Just ended our honeymoon in Switzerland days back. Wanted to write down what we had been through and what happened in the trip.

Day 1 (3/6/2016) Bern/Geneva
We reached Zurich in the morning, and transferred to Bern for sight-seeing and then to Geneva, which is a french-speaking region of Switzerland. Upon arrival, we picked up our tour guide from the train station and immediately started a quick city tour.

Our local tour guide showed us around the city, a number of famous international organisation in Geneva such as United Nation, Red Cross etc.

We were truly amazed with how many international organisation were based in Geneva.

Day 2 (4/6/2016) Zermatt/Matterhorn
We woke up pretty early in Geneva today, pretty much is because of the jet lag and I guess we were rather excited with our activities today. Immediately after breakfast, we followed our bus to Tasch, where we had our lunch and catch train to Zermatt.

We took a cable-car ride to the Matterhorn Glacier Paradise with a guide with us. There is a viewing platform on the top of the Matterhorn Glacier Paradise where we can see snow-capped mountains near the region. We were very lucky that the weather that day was very good.

We then head back to Zermatt via Cable-car, where we stayed for a night. We strolled around in the city and bought some souvenirs, mainly chocolate and biscuits, from the COOP in the village.

Day 3 (5/6/2016) Interlaken
As usual, we were transferred by train and bus from Zermatt to Interlaken, a resort town surrounded by two lakes. After our lunch near Interlaken west station, we were given a half day free-and-easy.

Jenny and I both decided to take a funicular ride near Interlaken OST towards Harder Klum, a viewing platform on the top of Interlaken. We can see the whole city and also the two pond from Harder Klum. The view from above is spectacular.

After our excursion, we had our dinner in Spyder where our travel group mate Mr Tiah and Cyrstal, from Jasmine travel organised a honeymoon surprise for us. We were invited to the stage to do Swiss traditional dance and traditional music instrument. We had a blast that evening.

Day 4 (6/6/2016) Montreux/Cailler Chocolate factory
We took a bus ride from Interlaken to Cailler around 10am in the morning.

Upon arrival of the chocolate factory, we did a tour about history of Cailler and how they produced chocolate. We headed for lunch in Montreux after our tour in Cailler

We then continued our journey to a nearby vineyard in Lavaux where we watched a movie about the process of wine making in Switzerland and tasted some of their local wine.

After that, we headed back to Interlaken for our dinner.

Day 5 (7/6/2016) Lucerne
We woke up rather early today again, took a breakfast in Interlaken hotel where we can see that the weather wasn't good that morning. It was cloudy and started drizzling.

We hopped on our bus on Interlaken and headed towards Lucerne.

We reached Lucerne around 11am, picked up our local tour guide and she brought us to the Lion Monument, walked across the chapel bridge and around the old town of Lucerne. This history of Lucerne is fascinating.

After our lunch, we had free-and-easy. We did some souvenirs shopping in the lovely town.

We had cheese fondue and also meat fondue that evening.

Day 6 (8/6/2016) Zurich
We had half day free and easy in Lucerne before we headed Zurich.

Jenny and I decided to have a Swiss style coffee break in Heini Restaurant after we checked out. We headed Zurich after our Chinese lunch in Lucerne.

As we arrived Zurich, we picked up our local tour guide did a city tour. She brought us to Zurich University, FIFA office, and old town of Zurich.

We also went to COOP to pick up some souvenirs before all of our tour group members flying back Singapore tomorrow.

After our Chinese dinner in the city, we checked in Dorint Hotel near Zurich Airport.

Day 7(9/6/2016) Neuschwanstein Castle/Munich
Woke up rather early today, repacked all our luggage and followed our tour bus to the airport, we bidden farewell to our tour mates, picked up our rented car from Zurich airport and drove to Fussen in Germany where we visited two castles in the region named Neuschwanstein Castle and Hohenschwangau Castle.

It was raining heavily that day so we were all drenched while visiting the castle.

After our visit, we drove to Munich where we checked into Augusten hotel. We then walked from our hotel to Karl Platz and to Marienplatz.

We settled our dinner in Hofbrauhaus where we can see everyone drinking a litre of beer and eating German traditional food. The atmosphere is good and I would recommend our friends to visit Hofbrauhaus when they are in Munich.

Day 8 10/6/2016 AStuttgart /Mercedes Museum
We bought breakfast from Lidl near Olympiad park where the BMW Museum is before we head towards Stuttgart.

I was driving like a German when I am on the autobahn. I was driving about 160-180km/hr throughout the journey, which I truly enjoyed it.

We arrived Stuttgart in less time than expected and Jenny slept through the journey.

After our early lunch in Stuttgart, we head towards the Mercedes Museum.

We visited their sales gallery and proceeded to their Museum. The entry was about Euro 8 per person. We spent half a day there and truly impressed with what we had learned and experienced in the Museum.

After our museum, we walked around Schlossplatz, and had dinner nearby where I had another pork knuckle again.

We stayed in Airbnb to experience for a night.

Day 9 11/6/2016 Triberg/Zurich
As usual, we dropped by Lidl for a quick breakfast and head towards Triberg in Blackforest, where we meet Maren.

Upon arrival, she hugged Jenny and I in the car park. It was nice seeing her again after her trip to KK for our wedding in March.

Without wasting time, we proceeded our hike together to the top of Triberg waterfall.

We also visited a large cuckoo clock near the area and have our typical German lunch together in Hofgut Sternen.

After our meal, we visited Titisee for black forest cake.

We bidden farewell to Maren after our dessert and headed back to Zurich where we stayed overnight there.

After we checked in, we returned our car to the airport and travelled back to the hotel to rest.

Day 10 12/6/2016 Flight home
We took the bus shuttle from hotel towards Zurich airport, had a late breakfast in the airport and boarded the our slightly delayed flight around 12 noon from Zurich to Singapore.

That is all for our Honeymoon in 2016. Looking forward to more trips to com.