Hotel Drei Konige Lucerne

... shopping streets, over to the lake, and then into the cute old neighborhood. It was a pretty cool city. Then we met up with another girl that Ace is really close with and the 5 of us went to dinner at a fondue restaurant. After that we headed home.

On Friday I had to pack up my life from my home in Vich and I went out to dinner with my host family. We tried to go to a Creperie, but it was closed, so my last Swiss ...

... but the views were outstanding! When we reached the bottom we jumped on a train and it took us right back to where we started. After our day's adventure we went to the grocery store got some food for dinner and cooked a good ol' hot dog and french fry Canadian dinner at the hostel. We made it an early night and we departed earlier in the afternoon for Prague! I will continue the story in the historic city later!!

Cheers!

LW

... in, put our bags in our room and then headed out to do some shopping...well looking really. There was a cool pedestrian only area with tons of shops everywhere...and tons of people! But I guess that`s what happens on a Saturday in Lucerne. Then after our experience in Interlaken we wanted to check to make sure we could still go up to Mount Pilatus on the Gondola's. So we went to talk to the guy who sells tickets, and he said it was still ...

... the name). We were told it was really pretty up there and the shoppin was good... well they had one thing right... it was really pretty, but the shoppin was non existent... be that it was november and in between busy seasons everything was closed... but it was still fun to walk around and take some pictures!
We got back in the afternoon, we went and got some groceries and made a wicked stir-fry for dinner and had an early night ...

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.

... the most popular Swiss dishes) at a little Swiss restaurant, but we couldn’t find it! We asked a guy at the front of a souvenir shop and he directed us to the back of his shop.

There we found the cutest little setting with only three big wooden tables set up and all with big wooden bench seats. There was a group of about 8 people around one of the tables enjoying a meat fondue feast, where you are served raw meat and you cook it yourself at the table by dipping it in the fondue ...

... lake.

That evening I ate dinner and went out to a few bars with my roommates and to sisters from Israel. It was fun talking with them after being in Israel. It was nice to hear a young Israeli perspective to go with what I heard in Israel.

Lucerne seems like it would be a nice place to retire. It was very pretty but fairly expensive and not a whole lot going on. I headed to Munich the next day.

... and I have to say, it was the best one I've had here in Switzerland yet! The hot chocolate was really creamy but tasted really good. Had a slice of Espresso/Chocolate cake and a Lemon cake to share. It appears that there's not really a public washroom. You have to buy something in order to gain access to the bathroom. The place is very small and appeared to be just a bar with an outside patio. It belonged to the hotel which was attached and wow ...

off to lucerne today. 1 1/2 hours on the bus. arrived to find out we couldnt check in until 4pm so had to amuse ourselves for quiet a while. we found breaky and went exploring. The water in switzerland is so clear and clean. Rachel has spread her cold/flu to everyone except for me so they are all in bed, im laying here bored!!!! we are all running out of swiss francs but dont want to get anymore out as we are only here for one more day and night.

Well night all

hal xxx

... we apologize to the store owner if we got any drool on the window. Sunday July 10th, 2005 - WE NOW DECLARE OURSELVES, SWISSCANADIAN Every day we spend in this place, we grow to love it more. what's not to love??? amazing chocolate, the best cheese and the people are so nice. today we got up and spent the day wandering around the town. it was wonderful. Interlaken is apparently the "extreme sport capital" of Europe and it was ...