Lucerne

Our schedule through Switzerland is packed full of adventure so even with dad’s back not doing well we were off again the next morning. We made a stop to get some hiking sticks, who knew this would be our most expensive souvenir of the trip.

Our main goal of the day was to ride a mountain coaster or summer toboggans. There are many of these throughout the area but we chose Frakigaudi Summer Toboggan as it was on our way to Lucern and recommended by a friend. We rode the Gondola up to the coasters and found they also had a ropes course, hiking, and a cafe. Plus amazing views.

The coasters are popular and we had to wait over an hour to get on but we passed the time talking to our neighbors and enjoying the fact that we were in Switzerland. Once we made our way to the front of the line we were able to speed down the track through tunnels and around curves. It was really cool. When we got to the bottom we were hooked up to a rope and pulled back up to the top of the ride. That part was great as you could not enjoy the views when racing down but you got lots of time of the ride back up.

Everyone walked away super happy if the line was not so long we definitely would have done it again.

After our coaster ride we headed to our rooms in Lucern. We stayed above Bistro Krienbrüggli. The kids were thrilled to finally have separate beds for a couple of nights and although the bar did not close until after midnight once we closed our windows and had the fans going we could not hear a thing.

Being in the old town area was super convenient to walk out to the Chapel Bridge and Spreuerbrücke bridge. We were able to see the summer commuters on their way home. In Lucern it is common in the summer to get home by swimming down Reuss River. what a refreshing way to commute.

On our second day in the Lucern area we choose to do a hike between the Klingenstock and Fronalpstock ski lifts. We read it was about a two our ridge hike with rides up to it and back down. It sounded amazing and it really was. The only issue was it definitely took longer for us than 2 hours. The hike was approximately 4.4miles and 90 flights of stairs!! By the end we were exhausted and hungry. Good thing there were plenty of restaurants and we were able to sit down to enjoy some traditional Swiss/German food at Restaurant Sternegg in Stoos.