The spring weather is not being so kind, we had hoped to get
out into the mountains for some hiking but there is rain and low cloud. Due to the weather we decided to take a car
trip to the Rhine Falls, which is Europe’s largest plain waterfall.
The falls are stunning at 150m wide and 23m high. In the winter months, the average
water flow is 250 m³/s, while in the summer; the average water flow is 700
m³/s. The highest flow ever measured was 1,250 m³/s in 1965; and the lowest, 95
m³/s in 1921.
The next
day we still hoped to get into the Swiss Alps, but the weather just wasn’t
cooperative. The mountains remained
cloudy and windy. We decided to try the Sattel-Hochstuckli
Skywalk, a 374m suspension bridge even though the weather wasn’t promising. We found the gondola to the bridge which was
closed, then we found a winding one lane mountain road which took us to the top
to find that the skywalk bridge was also closed. Not the most successful day, but better than
sitting around the house.
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