So I was looking online at stuff to do from Interlaken last night. This is the place we’ll be staying for a couple of days in Switzerland. From here you can catch a train all the way up to the top of Jungfraujoch. See the picture. It’s the “top of europe”. 11,000 feet or something. They have an ice palace up there. and an observatory.
Awesome. I know.
But it costs like $150 for a round trip ticket. But you can get off and stop along the way down and catch the next train.
I was thinking we should do it.. it’ll be an awesome sight. If there are no clouds and no storms. We’ll probably want to go up the right side of the mountain and come down the left side through Gridelwald. Of course we probably wont want to stay up there on top all day since all I think I’ll have is a wind breaker. But we can come down further and do stuff at the other towns on the way down.
Oh and you can see the whole big image here
Dear Vatican,
Thank you for responding to my inquiry. I was worried that you were either too busy for one of those Mormons from Utah, or there were no tours available during the full three days that I gave you. It is grand that you responded. I can’t wait for Thursday, September 18th. Seeing the Excavations beneath St. Peters Basilica will be quite the memory. I only wish that I could use my camera (sans flash), do you think you could ask the “big guy” and see if it’s ok? I promise I’ll be good.
Please accept my CC Payment of 20,00 Euro so the two of us may confirm our reservation.
Again thank you for responding. I know it is probably time consuming to do this all by hand, when you get over a hundred requests a day.
Sincerely yours,
CBL
PS. You should really get a web app that lets people reserve, confirm and pay online. I know a couple of good interaction designers and coders that could do that relatively cheap. Oh and the Scavi website needs updates.
So it turns out that there are some ruins underneath St. Peters Basilica. It’s called Scavi or The Excavations.
According to the above link, you have to make a reservation well in advance to be guaranteed a spot. Only 200 people a day can go down into the excavations. So last Tuesday I emailed the Scavi office at the Vatican. Have not heard a peep back. I gave them the possibility of three days for a tour, since we’ll be in Rome for all of those three days.
Doing some more digging there was another email address they had listed, so I emailed it too on Friday. That one gave me an auto-response email. But still nothing, as of today. It seems that this is the “hottest ticket” in Rome. Everybody that goes down there loves it.
So make sure ya’ll pray that the three blokes that run the Scavi office will reply to one of my emails with a time we can go. I’m dying waiting for a response.
So I’m planning a trip to Europe this September. I have accumulated enough miles for a round trip ticket to Europe and back from Las Vegas.. and not just riding coach, but riding up in the “Business Elite” section (BOTH WAYS!). Yeah, I know. It is the only way to fly transatlantic. No really.. it is.
My little sister Sammi is also coming along. We’ll be departing Vegas on the 10th of September and heading to Amsterdam. Arriving there the morning of the 11th. We’ll have plenty of time to play, because we don’t head back until the 25th of September..from London.
So if anybody has any recommendations on where we should go during our two week trip to Europe please speak up. Obviously we’ll hit Amsterdam and London, but anything else? Paris? Switzerland?
