The summer before my gap year we spent the summer in Switzerland, and most weekends (two weekends? Three?), when my mother wasn't working at EPFL, we would rent a car and drive off into the countryside to go hiking.
We went to Lauterbrunen one weekend. Tolkein used to visit Lauterbrunen - actually based Rivendell off of it - and it is the most Middle-Earth place I'd ever been.
I didn't like living in Switzerland, but I loved hiking in Lauterbrunen. Foggy mountain mornings with waterfalls off the cliff, real alpine meadows with edelweiss and bees, the crashing waterfall I won't ever be able to forget, hiking down through twiggy forests and white bark.
Hopefully these photos make your Monday seem a bit more peaceful...
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