Courtyard By Marriott Zurich Zürich

Here I am, sitting in my tiny little room, in a beautiful wooden chalet looking out onto a snowy landscape. Today is the second day of snow and it's only October. I have been predicting an early winter for weeks now and am rather happy that my predictions have come true.

To glad to be home I recall my recent trip to Ardeche, South of France. As customary for this time of year it was windy and cold. Non the ...

Jaja...am 17. Juni wars dann soweit, die Heimreise nach dem 8,5 Monatigen trip stand bevor.
Am Hongkonger Flughafen as ich noch meinen letzten Big Mac....traditionell :).....und dann gings auch schon los Richtung Heimat...obwohl noch nich ganz, zuerst Flogen wir nach London....

.....3 Filme 2 Essen und 2 kotzende Kinder später wars dann soweit...ich betrat ...

... chair where we could stop and admire the view. Catching the cable car back down to Lauterbrunnen, we saw the waterfall which plunges from the mountain to the valley in the middle of town. We walked up to the town and found a cafe which had pies soup and good coffee. It also had an English book exchange which thrilled Katelyn as it had one of the Twilight books. English books have been few & far between in Europe.
Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland kiama_on_tour

Time to get the car and drive to Buonas! We decide to drive to Lucerne before arriving in Buonas. There's this wooded bridge Andy wanted to see. What a good decision that was. Lucerne was amazingly beautiful and totally worth the extra 30 minutes in the car. We had lunch by the river, and took pics of the bridge before arriving in Buonas.

We got off to a good start this morning and made our first stop in Winterthur. We walked around looking for the Old Town, and once we found it we walked around some more. We stopped for some street meat for the boys and checked out the cathedral. There are elaborate pipes ...

... was "counting beans and kicking ass"--a clever way to say "financial accounting, QC, and auditing." At any rate, he was a good host and conversationalist and staying at his place was a fine time for all. He and his girlfriend Miriam taught me (and the other guy CSing there named Matt) the traditional Swiss card game of Jasen (pronounced Yah-sin, and I'm quite sure I misspelled it) after we cooked/ate a delicious Thai red curry chicken with rice. A good ...

... Zoo which was cancelled because of me).

Actually, after my childhood, this is the first time i went to Zoo. When i was child, i liked zoo so much. But now , i figured out that it no longer thrills me. It was just a peacefully day which i might have got by biking or hiking. I love animals but like them to see in the cage. One day, i will go to a real forest (may be in Zaire or South-Africa) for a real safari trip. This is one of the top most things i like to do in ...

... rich. At least it was relatively pretty to walk around and soak in the atmosphere. We walked all around the Zürichsee, with pretty views all around, and also walked extensively around the quaint Altstadt, where our hostel was. Last night I met up with half a dozen other backpackers in our hostel and had a good time with them (and a cast iron flying pig) so that lightened my mood about Zürich ...

... off in a beautiful little cafe on the edge of lake Zurich drinking a heise schokolade (hot chocolate) which I paid 5francs for, but considering it was basically melted down Swiss chocolate (Lindt is their Cadbury here!) with chocolate flakes on the top and the cafe was so chic and playing Vivaldi, it was totally worth it! Then got a ride home from Zurich with Erich who was coming home from work on the back of his motorbike which was interesting- I'm still slightly scared of ...

... richsee. Now it is done! Nearly all of it was done by K, but the rest of us helped with a few pieces. We signed and dated the back, then bagged it up for some future puzzling moments. Two days ago the four of us got haircuts. A&B nearly got a buzz cut, although there is still a little length up top so they can use hair gel. Having short hair is a really big change for them. K got a trim, meaning about 2 cm taken off. And E ...