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Make your boyhood dreams come true as an apprentice fireman on the legendary Brienz–Rothorn mountain railway! Besides learning all about the line and the vintage 1892 locomotives, you can take a look inside the steam engine, be present when the brakes are tested and help stoke the furnace on the way up to the top. Plus you return home with a personalized fireman’s certificate.

As a guest on the footplate of the steam train from Brienz up the Rothorn, you get to experience both the marvels of steam and the wonders of nature at first hand. Passing through romantic meadows and chugging alongside precipitous cliff faces, the cog railway climbs 1,678 m to the craggy ridge at the top, with gradients of up to 25 percent in places. The Brienz–Rothorn mountain railway is Switzerland’s only steam railway to provide a daily service.

There is a poetic beauty to Jobin’s fantastic collection of ancient musical boxes and jukeboxes. Yet no box can touch us like one we’ve made ourselves. Which is the big attraction here, where visitors can temporarily slip into the role of craftsman and make their own musical box. In addition to your favourite tune in a box, the package also includes an after-work drink and personalized certificate.