Cascada Swiss Q Hotel Lucerne

... here in Croatia is like a weird social experiment--locking up 40 college students in a hotel in Croatia... yesterday we finally left the resort complex and went into the town of Pula. It's a 40 minute walk or a 15 minute bus ride. I walked there and bussed back. It was a cool town, but kind of annoying to get to. It reminds me of Algeria. There's quite a few roman ruins around, which is really neat. And the main part of the ...

... Jackson movie)...yep I said reserve our seats, kinda wierd but it worked. The movie wasn't playing at this cinema it was playing at the one near the train station. So we wandered over to the train station area a little early. We had a pizza for dinner while we waited and then we went and had an ice cream. By that time it was almost time to go to the movie, so we walked back over to the cinema and saw the really cool movie!!
The ...

... was play in the snow...the only other people that were playing in the snow were the 3 year olds...but I couldn't pass up the chance of making a snowball and chucking it at Leanne!! So I did!! Too much fun! I made a few more just for fun...I'm pretty sure everyone thought I had never seen snow before...little do they know where I come from! haha. Once my hands had lost their feeling...I moved on for a bit. We walked through some caves in the ...

... it was ok, we met a couple from England who seemed very nice!
Before we left for Lucern, Switzerland, I made sure to stock up on Chocolate for the train ride!!

I'll continue my adventure there...

Cheers
LW

PS. .. if you are plannin a trip, remember, Switzerland shuts down in November for repairs and to get ready for winter... no gondolas, no bungy jumpin, etc... But PEACE and Quiet, Its beautiful and relaxin!!

... caught the train to Interlaken, a 2 hour ride. The Swiss trains are delightful—always punctual, to the minute, clean, efficient, and the schedules are pretty easy to figure out, with minimal confusion. Buying a pass for the number of days needed is really the way to go—after initially getting the passes validated, all we have to do thereafter is show the pass to the conductor. And the pass gets us good discounts on ...

... to catch whatever he had just because I didn’t get enough sleep. Not to mention that he was still on the mend and needed a good night sleep as well.

We planned on hiring bikes today and seeing the city so we agreed to stop by the Radisson on the way past and check on price and availability. But first – baked beans for breakfast!

Toast – ready. Cheese – on toast and melted. Beans – heated. Ready to eat……..and rubbish. Note – ...

... we finally came across a Swiss lady that was so nice that she actually walked with us all the way back.. we had only been a few streets off but just kept making wrong turns! I never claimed to be good with directions and this proves it :) In the meantime while we were lost, my roommate had gotten back from being out but i had the only key so she was thrilled about having to wait in someone else's room til I got back... NOT... LOL

... item of the day.... the cutlery set I bought at WMF (Filiale 854, 6020 Emmenbruecke) which has the best knives in the world... along with cutlery. They had a sale!! Also, they were a kids set but they were way too adorable to pass up. I'll be using it for my lunches because as a kids set, they were smaller and they have engravings of elves on them. :) If you're going to have lunch, at least enjoy what you're eating!! It'll taste that much better... maybe I'll even try to ...

... to the sound of bells, because every cow has a huge bell attached to her neck. Imagine these cows stop grazing and look up at you, as you're manouvering your way up these steep hills. Cows are friggen huge, and although they're dairy and female, they all have horns. Now, being alone and not having seen another human in awhile, these cows are intimidating. I'm sure if they wanted to chase me they could they would win, since they are on these mountains their whole lives ...

... and they ended up switching us and we were upgraded yet again! so great. the hostel building is both a hostel and a hotel and we'd booked to be in the hostel part, but when they screwed up, they moved us to the hotel part to apologize for the mixup. we ended up having a HUGE room with a small and ugly decorated bathroom and a balcony! we also had a tv and a view of the park and mountains. wonderful. we capped the night off by ...