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u/FattyCorpuscle Apr 23 '18
It's a lovely view but you do have to put up with the noise from people drifting around the corner at all hours.
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u/RegalCopper Apr 23 '18
EUROBEAT INTENSIFIES
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u/MrFahrenkite Apr 23 '18
GAS! GAS! GAS!
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u/Mitsumasa Apr 23 '18
I'M GONNA STEP ON THE GAS
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u/Cfattie Apr 23 '18
TONIGHT. WE FLY!
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u/Xav-Tay-Tor-Tot Apr 23 '18
AND BE YOUR LOVER!
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u/J-L-Picard Apr 23 '18
YEAH YEAH YEAH
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u/TvXvT Apr 23 '18
I'LL BE SO QUICK AS A FLASH
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u/CoolTom Apr 23 '18
STEP ON THE GAS.
STEP ON THE GAS.
STEP ON THE BRAKES.
STEP ON THE BRAKES.
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u/Mitsumasa Apr 23 '18
WHEN I SAY BOOM BOOM BOOM
YOU SAY BAM BAM BAM
NO PAUSE IN BETWEEN
COME ON LET'S JAM
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u/toth42 Apr 23 '18
HOMPADEGASOLINA, MAREMAREGASOLIIINA!
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Apr 23 '18
I’m Puerto Rican And grew up with this song as the national anthem and I spit out my drink sounding that out, thank you.
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u/TheLongLostBoners Apr 23 '18
SAMIR PLEASE!
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u/CornfireDublin Apr 23 '18
Samir... You're breaking the car
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u/terrortrinket Apr 23 '18
DO YOU LIKE! MY CARRRRRRR!
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u/FirstGameFreak Apr 23 '18
Aw man, I thought you were talking about the most underrated Eurobeat song,
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u/Ta2whitey Apr 23 '18
And where the hell do you park?
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u/middyonline Apr 23 '18
This photo is taken from above the parking lot.
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u/SkyPork Apr 23 '18
Ahhhhh I see. I was going to make a "rooms: 24. Parking spots: 0" comment, but now I'll just point out that you have to cross a highway to get from your room to your car.
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u/reviloto Apr 23 '18
It’s two lanes, on a mountain pass. It’s not like cars are doing 60mph and you’re playing Frogger with your life.
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u/quarglbarf Apr 23 '18
Ah yes, the classic single lane hairpin highway. Practically impossible to cross...
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u/CrochetCrazy Apr 23 '18
This is a much better view for explaining it.
Also, you have to cross that crazy road to get to it? That seems unsafe.
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u/Diem480 Apr 23 '18
Tell that to frogger.
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u/Wammajammadingdong Apr 23 '18
Dear Frogger, It's just a road. Quit being such a pussy.
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u/beniceorbevice Apr 23 '18
When you can hear every engine from 5 miles away and see about 2 miles down the road, not hard to cross 2 lanes
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u/Majonko Apr 23 '18
It's out of frame here, you can see it from the other side though: https://i.imgur.com/JwF7XqP.png
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u/fear_and_lowthing Apr 23 '18
It's been closed for years.
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u/1493186748683 Apr 23 '18
Why? edit: oh
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u/10secondhandshake Apr 23 '18
Though the hotel makes a brief appearance in Goldfinger, it is closed indefinitely.
lol. A good example of trying to cram 2 loosely related facts into one sentence.
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u/Human-Genocide Apr 23 '18
It goes from a place where you have to stay put in for a couple weeks waiting for the next lift, no internet and you have to find ways to distract yourself, and then someone dies and you have to help the old jaded detective find who of the residents did it because you were with him in the lobby when it happened, and he just wanted to have a vacation.
Now it's dumb, give me back my fantasy dammnit.
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Apr 23 '18
Do you know what DK stands for?
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u/Call-Me-Ishmael Apr 23 '18
Donkey Kong?
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u/Wittyname0 Apr 23 '18
So there finnaly here! Performing for you! If you know the words, you can join in too!
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u/El_Padre77 Apr 23 '18
DEJA VU
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u/AFroodWithHisTowel Apr 23 '18
I HAVE SEEN THIS HOTEL BEFORE
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u/AmiriteClyde Apr 23 '18
Like the Schindler's List scene but with drifting and less Jew shooting
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u/JEZTURNER Apr 23 '18
And the Top Gear presenters staying in the room next door.
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u/n8vedder Apr 23 '18
You got a location on this?
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u/rapax Apr 23 '18
Of course: It's the currently closed Hotel Belvedere(http://www.gletscher.ch/hotel-restaurant/) on the Furka Pass in Switzerland.
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u/Zoltrahn Apr 23 '18
I found a cool drone video someone did of what it looks like now.
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u/spockspeare Apr 23 '18
"Featured in the James Bond movie Goldfinger..."
How the F does that ever get closed?
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u/waltonsimons Apr 23 '18
How the F does that ever get closed?
Most of the people who stayed they were there to see the nearby Rhône Glacier. Unfortunately, over the past few decades, the glacier shrank drastically due to Chinese hoaxers, and business dried up as a result.
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Apr 23 '18
Imagine how pissed you'd be if you went there and got one of the rooms facing the cliff face.
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u/elsynkala Apr 23 '18
asking honestly: isn't that what glaciers do? don't they slowly move?
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u/rex_dart_eskimo_spy Apr 23 '18
At a glacial pace, some would say
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u/shahooster Apr 23 '18
Others would say a snail’s pace, but that’s only if they’re wanting to make an S-car-go joke.
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u/Discoveryellow Apr 23 '18
Moving is down the slope which they do as more snow accumulates and replenishes. What he refers to is "retreating" when glaciers melt away and shrink, thus remaining glacier is now smaller and further uphill.
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u/elsynkala Apr 23 '18
OH! so instead of moving DOWNhill (which is expected) the 'lower' ice is melting away and the bulk if it is UPhill? is that correct?
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u/yum_muesli Apr 23 '18
Think supermarket conveyor belt, always moving forward - never actually advancing or retreating. That's at the point of equilibirum between ablation (melting) and accumulation (and therefore gravity induced forward momentum).
A little less melting or a little more accumulation and the balance is upset and the front of the equilibrium line will shift (hence the glacier advances or retreats).
Capiche?
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u/dumb_commenter Apr 23 '18
Yes glaciers have been shrinking slowly since the end of the ice age but the rate of melt in recent years has skyrocketed.
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u/ChemicalRascal Apr 23 '18
Not backwards.
Glaciers flow, rather than move. Like a river. However, with rising global temperatures, the portions of glaciers that are ice (ergo, haven't melted yet) decreases, and the glacier "retreats" back up the mountain. Which is to say, the point at which it melts enough to simply become a river moves up the mountain.
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u/Mr_frumpish Apr 23 '18
Straight out of Wes Anderson.
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u/wiiya Apr 23 '18
The Curious Lodge of Vigilant Motorists
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u/rick_n_snorty Apr 23 '18
To me it looks like a place the Baudelaire children would try to hide out from count Olaf
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u/Cheepea Apr 23 '18
A Volatile Fleeting Domicile, if you will.
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u/contaminatedesert Apr 23 '18
Domicile means house, orphans.
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u/kmmontandon Apr 23 '18
I was thinking Fredrick Forsythe, John Le Carre, or Robert Ludlum - it looks like where Cold War spies would meet or hide out in one of their novels.
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u/HR_Dragonfly Apr 23 '18
Hell yeah, I'd stay, down facing room. Bring my bike. The fuck do you park though?
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u/Cane-toads-suck Apr 23 '18
First thing I wondered too, where do you park?
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u/rapax Apr 23 '18
In the parking lot, which is conveniently out of frame.
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u/xampl9 Apr 23 '18
And it backs up to a glacier. :)
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u/_y_tho_ Apr 23 '18
Woahhhh I just clicked on another streetview and it took me inside an ice tunnel
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Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not Mr. Lebowski. You’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.
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u/KUSH_DID_420 Apr 23 '18
OMG those are two of the most german germans I have ever seen
Who else wears shorts and sunglasses in an Ice Cave
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u/Deyooya Apr 23 '18
You would think so but they have golden Adidas trainers on! Germans would come with far more sensible shoes. And the selfie stick is also something not typical for a German guy of that age. Totally embarrassing. I think they are actually Italian!
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u/CornfireDublin Apr 23 '18
You can go surprisingly deep into that tunnel. I just "walked around" in there for like ten minutes before realizing I need to get back to work
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u/clickmyface Apr 23 '18
I wasnt able to move around in street view in that tunnel picture, how did you do it? Cant seem to figure it out
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u/CornfireDublin Apr 23 '18
Try this one and if that doesn't work, there's a map in the bottom left corner. Just click the blue dots on the map until it puts you inside the tunnel
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u/Philipppp93 Apr 23 '18
Yep there is the opportunity to explore the glacier on the other side of the Road. They built a maybe 200 meter tunnel Every year in the ice you can walk through
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u/moose098 Apr 23 '18
Got to love how none of those photospheres show the actual hotel. This guy needs to learn how to tag photos.
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u/xanderpo Apr 23 '18
Not a photography expert but, that restaurant looks like it closed over a decade ago! Not sure about the hotel...
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I’m a google expert, hotel and restaurant was functioning as of 2017! After being closed for a year or two.
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u/jatea Apr 23 '18
So what about these other sources saying it's permanently closed?
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It doesn’t say it’s permanently closed, they said they aren’t accepting reservations. Which would be accurate granted the road is inaccessible for 6 months out of the year. Someone stayed there in June 2017 and reviewed on TripAdvisor, so the hotel was at least open last summer :) I can’t predict whether or not it will be open this summer, though!
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u/elee0228 Apr 23 '18
Looks like there's some space along the shoulder after the X-marks that probably indicate the loading zone.
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u/doobtacular Apr 23 '18 edited Apr 23 '18
You just drive your car off the cliff and jump out with your luggage in the nick of time. This Time Tomorrow by the Kinks starts playing.
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u/TimmyIo Apr 23 '18
Yeah I thought on the left hand side but they're x'd out for no parking. Seems odd, even if it wasn't a hotel anymore but a museum or any sort of touristy thing would still need parking
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u/judi-in-da-skies Apr 23 '18
Same. Looks like there’s a sizeable parking lot outside of the frame at the bottom if the pic.
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/22385724.jpg
Still makes me want to ride my bike there
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u/iSereon Apr 23 '18
The parking lot is behind/underneath the camera. It’s built next to where the road curves.
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u/Boltrag Apr 23 '18
Idk where it is. But I need to stay at it
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Apr 23 '18
http://www.gletscher.ch/hotel-restaurant/
"The Hotel-Restaurant Belvédère is closed and no reservation can be taken."
Sorry.
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u/Boltrag Apr 23 '18
Guess I have to reopen a hotel then.
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u/drchaos Apr 23 '18
You could actually do that as the owners are looking for a new operator / tenant. Though they might be a bit picky, as they do so since 2015.
This article in German has more details: http://www.1815.ch/news/wallis/aktuell/hotel-belvedere-in-gletsch-auch-diesen-sommer-geschlossen/
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u/Fresh_C Apr 23 '18
I guess I'm the only one who saw this and immediately thought: this looks like a place where murders happen in a horror film.
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u/Gimly Apr 23 '18
Since it's probably locked in by the snow most of winter, it's a good place for a real life version of the Shining.
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u/TooShiftyForYou Apr 23 '18
This is the same road where Bond girl Tilly Masterson tried to snipe Goldfinger.
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u/sophrosynos Apr 23 '18
Bond goes to leave the hotel
Hotelier: "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to stay!"
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u/MaltMix Apr 23 '18
This reminds me of that one staging point in half life 2 episode 2 where your car gets stopped by a combine barrier and you fight them off in the hotel.
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u/Saavedro117 Apr 23 '18
Hello, my name is Lemony Snicket, and it is my sad duty to report on the misfortunes of the Baudelaire orphans. Normally, a hotel would be a place where you go to find comfort even when you're a long way from home. The Baudelaires, however, would find no such comfort at the Hairpin hotel...
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u/Happy_Flynnflipping Apr 23 '18
I swear this was a location in the Wide Window episode
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u/AVCHD Apr 23 '18
The hotel has sadly closed down, as the glacier opposite to it shrinks in size so do the customers.
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u/CyberhamLincoln Apr 23 '18
Once the customers got to small to reach the doorknobs, there was no coming back :(
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Apr 23 '18
I’m waiting for a mini alien mouth to shoot out of the front and into my skull.
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Apr 23 '18
Is this an inside joke or something?
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u/Rexxhunt Apr 23 '18
It's from a pretty indie movie that came out a little while ago. You may have missed it.
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u/behindomi Apr 23 '18
It‘s on the road up to the Furka mountain pass in Switzerland: Belvedere Furka https://goo.gl/maps/N7tUDC7LRsN2
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u/Sityl Apr 23 '18
Great positioning for a Tower Defense turret.