Hotel Continental Park Lucerne

... UNESCO (which I would love to work for someday), the International Bureau of Education, a professor of the Graduate Institute, and a collaborator from a journal. Overall pretty successful.

On Wednesday my friend Ace and I took a trip up to Zurich to use up our free train day pass. When we got up to Zurich we met up with two boys, one that Ace knew through a friend, and they showed us around Zurich. We walked down the ...

... and threw it at me. I think the only other people that were playing in the snow were the 3 year olds! But it was all good. We walked around the summit looked in the gift shop and restaurant and then we took a cogwheel train down the other side of the mountain. This cogwheel train is said to be the steepest in Europe. We had also taken the cogwheel train up a mountain in Norway and yeah...this is definitely steeper and a hell of a lot ...

Well we finally made it to Lucern after a few hours on the train...and we arrived with some daylight left!! YAY!! So we started walking with my lovely directions that I got from a previous hosteller that wrote them on the website...Leanne was out of her comfort zone cause she wasn't in charge and didn't know where we were going...it was great! Luckily for her I am good with directions and had everything under control! So we got to the hostel ...

... the mornin just like Carcassonne... It was still dark, we waited in the train station for about 1 hour to let it get a little light out... we then started walkin to the hostel... it was actually quite easy to find... the directions they gave were good this time, good job Hostel World! We were able to put our bags in storage and then we went adventurin... we took the train up a mountain to a small village... it was just a small ski village (I ...

... up the mountain, switch cable cars, and the rest of the way up. Had a sandwich and bier dinner in the revolving restaurant at the top, then down 3 sets of cable cars to Stechelberg, where we caught the bus (free because of our Swiss Rail pass) back to Lauterbrunnen. Picked up a little bit more food and drink, back to the hotel to eat, then up to the room, where I feel like racking out, but instead I'm going to try and get this posted.

... ourselves at a junction we set out in what we thought was the direction of the Lion Monument. Guess what? Wrong way. We got to the top of the hill and knew we were well outside of the tourist area, so back down the hill we went!

By now we were both getting a bit hungry and after several days in Switzerland we were yet to try any Swiss cuisine, so we went looking for a traditional Swiss restaurant.

The first street we went down we found a sign advertising fondue and rosti ...

... Museum, which is filled with photographs of the artist and some of his later works. It was cool to see because in Barcelona I saw alot of his early works but none of is later weird stuff. It was nice to see the evolution of his style. Although most of it still looks like craziness, Im starting to understand what might possibly be going through his head.

I spent much of the rest of the day hanging out by the ...

... about 8:30 so decided we needed to top up on some groceries. Off we went to the Coop and the Stop & Shop Frischmarkt to pick up some items. I wanted to try some wine so we found 2 bottles... they have them in all sort of sizes... I found ones that were the size of beer bottles. :) I'm pretty sure I can get drunk on that!!! I'm such a cheap drunk!! A rose and a red... Then it's 189 steps up before I could put the rose in the fridge... perhaps I'll have it tomorrow. :)

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3) The Swiss people are active and happy. People well into their seventies hike and bike and I saw many of these elderly people at the top of the Shilthorn. And let me assure you, they did not take the gondola up. Also, young couples carry their babies on their backs. They don't leave them with a sitter, they take them everywhere, including on hardcore bike trips and hikes.

4) I lovd it there. Except I couldnÄt afford real food. It's a very expensive country.

... even more crazy than before. We did also see a billy goat and are rapidly falling in love with Switzerland. Tonight we walked back into the main town area and we both bought amazing shirts with the Swiss Cross on it. we are even cooler than before now. Thomas also bought a very classy red fedora (feather included in the set) and we stared longingly into the window of one shop that had a Swiss Army Knife with a USB jump drive in ...