Vipassana and coffee. Technicolour and toilets.

Coming over a few passes, and through the open air museum at Ballenberg, I go through Interlaken. A hole of a city: Way way to touristified. Looks like everything is covered in pastell plastics, people included. But the mountain view is nice enough.

Beatenberg, on the other hand, is much nicer. A nice buddhistic retreat center 600 meters over Interlaken, with a few residential bodhisattvas. Being a youth hostel from the 70's, the dorms had some really vivid colors indeed. As I spent a weekend there in a retreat, I was last to write up on the chores list, and I ended up washing toilets. But very mindfully, of course.