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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
01/8/2015 at 3:33pm
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Hi Bofs
I think the high cost of living in Switzerland and the need for 2, expensive,annual motorway vignettes, ie, car AND caravan have made it too expensive for many people.
We went as a family caravanning to the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland over 10 years ago. We loved the area it but found it very expensive. It is however a stupendously beautiful country which is very clean and efficiently run.
After looking at larger sites near Interlaken, we stayed at Camping Seegartli, a lovely little site right on the shores of the Brienzersee - at the opposite end of the Brienzersee to Interlaken. The site appears to be still going as it's in my 2014 copy of the CC "Caravan Europe" Guide. It's a small site behind the owner's home but our 'van was right on the lakeside, literally only a couple of feet away, and with "views-to-die-for along the lake to the high mountains. We had not booked but just turned up and got a superbly placed pitch, even though it was early August.
I've left a review of it here:
http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/reviews.asp?revid=10436
(The date of the review is wrong - it was more like 2000 when we went.)
There is a larger site. Camping Aareg, with a lot more more facilities on the same road but we opted for the smaller one. Our boys used paddle the short distance in our inflatable to buy sweets from the shop at Camping Aareg. There are 2 reviews of this site on UKC
We brought transport passes which enabled us to travel on all of the boats, buses, trains and cable cars and we made VERY full use of those. The passes were very expensive but I think the children might have been free. We made very full use of the passes including travelling to the station at Jungfraujoch. It is possible to travel into the mountains by one route and then walk to another cable car for the descent. The Swiss transport system is VERY comprehensive and EXTREMELY punctual. We caught the boat or train from Brienze to Interlaken and then linked up with the train and cable car network to get up into the mountains.
As has already been said the Trummelbachfalle are, also, very worth a visit.
We did take our bikes and cycled along the flat valley floor to Meringen where there is a museum to Sherlock Holmes. We, also, visited the Reichenbach falls where Sherlock Holmes "fell to his death."
We had a superb holiday and just writing about it bring happy memories flooding back. I would recommend doing plenty of research on the rail passes, etc, before you go so that you can maximise your time when you're actually there.
Cary and I have visited subsequently visited Vevey, on Lake Geneva, and driven through Switzerland with the caravan en route to Italy, but the Bernese Oberland stands out for us.
I hope this helps.
Regards
Tim
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Tim and Cary
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