Entries about Aeschi and Aeschiried
Aeschiried to Greberegg
The hill above Aeschiried has been calling to me ever since we moved to Faulensee. It’s immediately obvious, when looking up the hill, that the views across the lake must be great. There are a few houses dotted across the hillside, and the sharp-eyed will notice a small ski lift leading up into the trees. […]
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Brunnialp, Switzerland
The Brunnihütte sits beneath the heights of the Morgenberghorn, overlooking the forests above Aeschi and Suldtal. We decided to hike there on a hot late summer day, but due to leaving home late, this viewpoint is as far as we got before having to turn back. Next time, we’ll leave earlier and make it all […]
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Bawald, Switzerland
The hike from Aeschiried to Brunni, high above Lake Thun, affords spectacular, panoramic views down to the lake, to Interlaken, and as far as Brienz.
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Schlächtenwald
There are plenty of little, almost unnoticeable roads around here, which lead up valleys and through forests to remote farm buildings and dead-ends. I like to pore over the Kümmerly + Frey maps – the Swiss equivalent of the British Ordnance Survey – to see whether there are any worth driving up.
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Lower Simmen Valley, Switzerland
Photographed from the mountainside above Aeschiried, with a view down to Faulensee, Spiez and across the Thunersee to Thun.
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A Sea of Cloud and the Full Moon Light
A beautiful combination; here at Aeschiried in Switzerland.
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The Secret Restaurant
Well, it’s not much of a secret restaurant for locals, as the car park is often busy and it’s right next to one of the local, small ski areas on the rolling hill slopes above Spiez in winter.
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Restaurant Chemihütte, Aeschiried
permanenttourist.ch/blog/2011/08/the-secret-restaurant/
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Lake Thun from Aeschiried
From when Mum and Dad visited us in May. This is the view from the Chemihütte restaurant, which is one of our secret tips in the area we call home.
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Low cloud at Aeschi
So many photos, so little time. A photo from October, when I went for a morning trip up to Aeschiried to escape the murky weather at home in Spiez.
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Down our road
A wideangle view of our road, with a panoramic view to Aeschi and the Alps, photographed in January this year.
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This is where I live
The view from the Allmistübli restaurant, high above the lower Simmen valley, Lake Thun and the town I call home: Spiez, in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland.
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Lower Simmental and Thunersee from Aeschiried
The winter version of the view from Aeschiried down to Lake Thun, which I last photographed when we Jo and I were there with my Dad in October 2008. View this shot larger at Permanent Tourist.
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Lower Simmental and Thunersee from Aeschiried
The view featured on the webcam at the Allmistübli hotel and restaurant.
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Bug
Holding still for me on the window of our rental car. Fab result using my 55mm Micro Nikkor lens and a flash bounced off a white reflector off-camera right.
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Untitled
Thank you Nick, for suggesting that I revert to my fixed lenses. (I’d become increasingly disappointed by the lack of detail in photographs with the standard Nikon zoom lens.) This was shot from the Niederhorn on Tuesday evening, using a manual focus 135mm telephoto Nikkor, and it’s massively sharper than previous results.
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