Alpina Lucerne
Frankenstrasse 6 Lucerne, Lucerne, CH-6003 , Switzerland
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Made it. What a journey. Marinette to Green Bay to Detroit to Dusseldorf, then train to Cologne, then fly to Zurich then train to Lucerne. 24 hours. Yuk. But Im here nad managed to get 8 hours of sleep, so a bit in Lucerne and then drive to munich today. will update with pics when I have more time.
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There is nothing better than chocolate!
Today during our orientation tour around the medieval city highlighted the Lion Monument, it was built in memory of Louis XVI's brave, and courageous guards, who tried to defend the Palace of the Tuileries in Paris, this was during the french revoloution.
We also saw the Jesuit Church, and the chapel bridge that goes accross the river named Reuss. Later we had a choice of climbing to the top of one ...
Switzerland at its finest
... rolling ball clock or something like that. The problem is, the clock is in a giant mall area and it was sandwiched between three floors of escalators so you couldn't even see the whole thing at once. Apparently it's supposed to be super accurate and the balls drop at certain time intervals but you couldn't really tell. Since we were in a giant luxury mall we decided to explore and found out that we were in an area where they ...
Mount Pilatus
... of the more adventurous in our group decided to hike around the rock off the trails like a bunch of crazy people. One of my good guy friends on the trip, Sam, lost his camera this way. It fell right out of his pocket and off a cliff. Since there wasn't much more to see up top we took a gondola ride down a few hundred feet below the clouds and rode down some of the mountainside on ...
B'ruchim Haba'im-Welcome to Israel
... to our tour leader as well as take a shot of their traditional wine. We all got back on the bus and headed to my first ever Kibbutz. As my understanding goes a Kibbutz is similar to a hostel but differs in that people can work there in exchange for food and housing. Yes its was quite a long day of over 20 hours of traveling but we set up shop and got a good nights rest.
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