A Room With A View Please

OK, so we made it to Gimmelwald and asked the lady at the gondola station how to get to Hotel Mittaghorn. Mind you, both Jill and I have on full backpacks and we both have our 25" rolling suitcases full and roughly 50lbs each and we have our cameras and other junk strapped to the front of these suitcases. So, the lady tell us go up the path and take a right and it's about a 5 - 7 minute walk. Awesome. So we head down the path, take a right and then we come to a dead end. No Mittaghorn. No way, she couldn't possibly . . . . there's no way we are . . . .

Apparently, we are. A short (wet from rain) gravel road, then these steps were our route to the Hotel. Don't think it looks that bad? Well, that is a shot to the 1st turn. Here is the view from the other end:

Can you say miserable? Well, if that wasn't bad enough: I was tired already, Jill was tired, we were wearily dragging our suitcases up the steps and I noticed one of my wheels starting to bend out. So, not wanting to damage our suitcases and also not wanting to have to carry them the rest of the trip without wheels, I was forced to lift both suitcases and walk these steps. 50lbs on each arm may not seem a lot to you, but to me that was a lot. Add to th e fact that it was a bulky 50 lbs and both bags were slamming into me the entire way up. It was, to say the least, not fun. So to make matters worse, when we get up the ridiculous stairs the manager is sitting outside the place and he informs us that we could have stayed on the paved road and walked about 20 minutes around the village and made it there just the same. Thanks gondola lady. Like she didn't notice the ridiculous baggage that we were carrying. I'm not bitter though, at least we made it.

As tired and frustrated as I may have been, even more so after I carried our stinking suitcases up three flights of stairs (no elevator here) to our room, the view was worth it all! open the window to and door to our little balcony and directly across from you are Jungfrau, Monch and the Eiger Mountains. You don't believe me, have a look for yourselves: