Interlaken: Unspunnen, or the end of a complete weekend

I haven´t written anything about this sunday, and I think it is worth to mention (and watch), so let´s go.
When I woke up in Rene´s house Sunday morning, Simone was reading the newspapers and told me that specifically that day a very especial event was going on in Interlaken. The "Unspunnen", a traditional swiss festival, with traditional swiss wrestling, traditional swiss music, traditional stone throwing, traditional dressing, traditional food...and traditional tourists around. All the surroundings are very nice, but the town itself is really turistic. This was confirmed after I saw Josh laughing and taking pics of a "Hooters" restaurant, which apparently are very famous in the US. I guess the difefrence is that in the Interlaken Hooters, together with the young and undressed waitress, you find families of farmers with their kids, grandparents in traditional dresses, women from the region drinking huge beers....and of course, tourists.
The "Unspunnen" event takes its name from the stone that is thrown in a contest there, and that apparently has been stolen twice by a group of radical guys from the Jura region. What an unconfortable thing to steal, don't you think? Especially because if you are discovered in the attempt, I can tell you, because I saw them, that the men that will go after you can easily shift a cow and throw it to you, and that will hurt, promise.
It could be a bad idea to go there also, considering the amount of people we would probably find, and the consequent more than probable traffic jam afterwards. Anyway, both me and Josh were pretty sure we wanted to go there. Besides, there was a bit of a confusion, and we thought that the event was going on every 12 years. 12 years!! of course we have to go there!!! That would probably make it the most important event in the world. I think that reality is closer to the 12 months period in between, but we were convinced (only for some minutes) that we were driving to a very very unique and unfrequent event. The road to Interlaken is great and I did some really nice pics that I can´t post because blogger.com image loading said "enough". The road that goes there is one of those places where you would stop the car every two seconds to take a picture. Doesn't matter you won't see the "mountain and lakes pics" that I took, we have the core of the post uploaded already.

Interlaken:What you see below made the whole trip absolutely worthy. Raclette against hangover. Forget about ibuprofen or other pharmaceutical stuff. Just eat one or two of those and you will feel good, very good. (more than two will make you feel a bit "heavy" but still really good).

Fashion in Interlaken:


These are the future stone throwers:
This group of women waiting for the train, discovered us while taking pictures behind a bush. We were following them for a while...you will se why. The one in the middle is just pointing at me.
And here, we just do a pause to say that this weekend I found the reason I accepted an internship in Switzerland this summer. Now everything makes sense...it is fate! The reason I came here in July (and will stay a bit more while missing the wellcome parties & events that are already going in barcelona due to the start of the MBA again) is.....THIS: Direct from the mountains, the sound of angels. A W E S O ME.

And we also had some traditional dancing around. everything surrounded by a huge group of tourists, that had already decreased by the time we arrived in the afternoon. However, I think it was better to be there at that time, because the protocols of the party were a bit broken and the men and women from the mountains were really enjoying themselves after a few drinks. Some afternoon dancing.

Commenting the day in "Pony Bar"
And around 6pm, time to go home guys.

GOOD BYE!

Music for the day: No discussion today, just clic on the first link above and you will see what is the hit of the summer.