Monday 23 rd September 2024
Day 10
Today we drove an interesting journey, we know that some Swiss cheese have holes in them but did you know their mountains do too. Well they are called “tunnels” and boy did we go through a lot today with the longest being 9km long, in Old Homer the headlights were about as good as two candles, thankfully this Homer has good headlights but to be fair most tunnels have good lighting, in one tunnel today the road split and we went off down a different tunnel on our right.
Our destination was just outside the town of Schwyz which had the terminal for a funicular up to a town called Stoos.
The funicular railway from Schwyz is the steepest in the world and provides access to the car free mountain village of Stoos. You are carried up in what resembles large washing machine drums that self level as you travel up.
Stoos is a village located above Schwyz at 1,300m and has about 100 permanent residents but there is plenty of accommodation for visitors. It is used mainly as a small ski resort with a cable car connection to Fronalpstock at 1,922m, we didn’t pay to go up there as the cloud level was as low as Stoos.
One of the first things to catch your eye when you emerge from the terminal is a small church on a hillock.
I’m not sure if it was the time of the year or because it was a Monday but there wasn’t anything open other than the bar in The Wellness Hotel where we had a drink before the descent.
We enjoyed the wander around but I could imagine it having a wonderful feel covered in snow and busy with winter sport enthusiasts.
We drove a short distance from Schwyz to an aire where we are staying tonight, after tea we all went for a walk down to the edge of Lake Lucerne and as we we were looking at the marina it was evident a storm was rapidly approaching us so we beat a hasty retreat and as we got back it began to rain heavily.
taraabit 