Astoria Swiss Q Hotel Bern

... chalets. Some chalets were so close together in narrow streets that I'm sure you would be able to hear the neighbour’s conversations.

We went back to Interlaken and went to a chocolate shop to buy some Pave which I had heard about and to do some grocery shopping and then get in to cook dinner before the kitchen got crowded.

... and I'm just not all that hungry... it's something you just get acclimated to doing this type of travel. And you start rationalizing things like, would I rather see this _______ (park, church, museum, exhibition, statuary, etc etc etc) that I don't know anything about and then take pictures of wow, things I don't know about either or instead, get a bottle of wine with my new friends, you chose the wine. I don't know if that's the best ...

... the city itself. We've visited several European capitals and Bern seems to have the least visitor appeal. It's odd considering how beautiful the country is. Once again, Rick is right... why spend time in Swiss cities when you can enjoy the mountains?

Our last stop was the famous Bern bear enclosure (aka a big concrete pit), but it too proved disappointing. The bears were either hiding or not in their pen as we could find neither hide nor hair ...

... to make the most out of my day. Where the hell is everyone and everything i thought... mental note they build down in europe... I just forgot to go down. So finally i found a locker and started walking. Straight out the station and into a market place... all of a sudden someone in a very very bad accient says gday mate-no problems mate- how u going? I couldnt help but smile it was one of the swiss market guys loving the idea of talking to me in my own lingo... it ...

... After breakfast, we made our way to the gift shop, a short Piz Gloria video, then outside for more pictures. Then it was back down the mountain, and back to Bern to catch our overnight train for Prague. Before I leave you, I have to tell you about the little town of Murren, which is just below the Piz Gloria. You have never seen such a pretty little village, Randy and I want to go back just to stay there. It was so quiet and peaceful.

... over 1 hour on the train. It was 13degrees in Zurich by day & 8degrees at night. I took a cruise up the canal & then went window shopping on Zurich's world famous shopping street Bahnhofswtrasse. I also saw grossmunster chapel & st peters church which was built in 1534 & holds the record for the largest clockface in Europe. I then went to the old town where there are lots of tiny streets full of shops,pubs,bars,strip clubs & kebab ...

... after much whining and cursing due to having 2 hours sleep all weekend due to the Bundy party in the Muatatol mountains and being forced to take part in this competition. although i must confess there were only 6 girls in the comp so we didn't have tons of competition. But i was still stoked anyway and got some nice prizes!), and just won a guess how many in the jar comp at a farmers shed party here last week and got a wicked big victoria nox Swiss army knife (which is a ...

... were broken.. but the next day hope was restored and God said yes.. it was a beautiful day and I had warm weather and blue skyes. I left to go up the mountain at 9am and I arrived and was snowboarding by 10:30am It was absolutely amazing! Breath-taking! Inspiring! Life-changing! It was just the most awesome experience! The scenery was breath-taking and pictures just do not justify anything! So I'm really unsatisfied with them.. but they are ...

... attempts to undermine the pact continued to flourish; one legend from the time tells of a boy who overheard conspirators meeting in the marketplace at Unter der Egg, on the riverside. The plotters caught the boy and forced him to swear under oath that he would tell no living soul what he had heard them discuss, so the boy ran straight to a nearby guildhall and interrupted a confederate meeting to tell his whole story to the tiled stove in the corner of the room ...

... hey, just found the '. Anyways, after that we climbed all 284 steps to the top of the Arc de Triomphe, but only after running into a group of about 100 people dancing and singing about how Jesus loves us. Pretty cool, but all in french. The top of the Arc was spectacular, I enjoyed that view more than the view from the Sacre Couer (Paris is all about going to the top of things and looking at Paris). We hiked it ...