So, on Tuesday I decide I am going to take a trip to see the Eiger.
Well, for those of you as old as me you remember there was a Clint Eastwood movie called the “Eiger Sanction.”
It was made in the early 70’s with Clint as an Art professor (Huh??? yeah) who was a retired assassin (more like it!)…. and a mountaineer on top of that! (Book written by Trevanian).
Anyway it was filmed on location at the Eiger (a mountain by the way) and Zurich as well.
Heck I want to see the Eiger.
So, I get out my trusty train schedule and plot a trip from the Thun Bahnhof to the Eiger. Looks pretty straight forward.
But, as many of you have learned nothing that has to do with travel is ever really that easy with Donny the C!
Somehow, I get the journey screwed up. Everything looks fine until the train makes a final stop … yes they announced a “Final Stop” and everyone off.
Well, “hells bells” – this isn’t the Eiger!
Nope the village of Lauterbrunner.
But, wait a minute – it is an absolutely beautiful 
backdrop between cliffs.
Plus there are mountains up ahead. What the heck … it ain’t the Eiger. But, it is Switzerland! And everything in Switzerland is from a post card.
So off I go hiking around and checking the place out – it is pretty damn pretty here!
Then I find out they filmed part of the James Bond 
movie “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” here in Lauterbrunner (I am just a font of knowledge! Hah!)
So I trade in Clint Eastwood for “Bond…James Bond!” Not too bad!
