Hotel-Restaurant Atlantis Biel

... Swiss Cheese, is NOT a hangover food!! It was also freezing up there (in fact, it was actually snowing, so much for summer!), and I nearly didn’t even take a jaket with me, due to a non-functioning brain and me thinking, “oh its pretty warm today” . What I didn’t realise was it was 30° or more colder up there than down at the bottom. I also just wore peep toe flat shoes, which were not ideal for -13° and snowing conditions.
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Duggingen, Bern, Switzerland clarareed

... l'ai pas prévu de prendre le jour entier, mais j'ai dépensé toute la journée au Château de Neuchâtel et alors faisant les courses tout près. La visite et la tournée étaient libres, donc j'ai obtenu pour voir le château alors entier. Il a été incorporé le 15e siècle ! Après plusieurs heures d'exploration de château, j'étais prêt pour une coupure, donc j'ai fait des achats. Je ne planifiais pas sur l'achat n'importe quoi, mais j'ai cassé enfin quand j'ai trouvé Wodey-Suchard ...

... and some of the initial work on the theory of general relativity (the e=mc2 equation that we all know). After correcting a few of his mistakes, I decided I had had enough of Bern for the day. I went to the tourist office and told them that I wanted to see Jungfraujoch. They said I would have just enough time to get there....so I hopped on the train for Interlaken. Once I got to Interlaken, I ...

... new and liberating. Walking home we stumbled upon a celebration filling the town square, and watched the people singing, yelling, dancing and celebrating for a while. Things had quieted down by the time we headed out to our next challenge of finding all the skeletons in a series of paintings in the rafters of a long wooden bridge over the river that ran through town. We capped off the evening planning the details of the last of our trip.

... the afternoon wandering the cobbled lanes of the Old Town, taking the usual copious amounts of pictures and, for once, enjoying the sun. We spent a few hours looking around a little apartment that was inhabited by none other than Albert Einstein in early 1900. He was a little known clerk in a Bern patent office at the time and, as every tourist information office around the town will be quick to point out, it was here in Bern that he came up with his ...

So after I left Cinque Terre, Italy...I have been traveling completely on the suggestions of others. If someone recommends a place once then I take note of it...if twice, then I head there. This is how I ended up in Interlocken and Luzern. In Interlocken I stayed at the infamous Balmers hostel, which is like a backpackers utopia...they even have a hammock room. Ive spent time hiking, chilling with the crew that was there, and biking. But its a ...

... flag throwing, horn blowing, saw playing, wine bottle playing, dancing and much more- including this super crazy COW that comes to lick everyone. Then we all got up and made a huge Contiki congo line! After dinner we were surprised with showers and so I ran back to our hotel to knock out for a good 8 hours ( we didn't have anything early planned for the next morning) YES!

... is yet to be figured out. Saw the geneva marathon. Uh. We saw this big fountain too. It was REALLY high. Gosh, I'm so ****** about the picture issue. Rhine river trip is this weekend. signing off...I just wanted to do this entry so I could see the little map go all the way over to Geneva

... ridges, and worked our way through feasts of swiss german delicacies, our hosts and casual interlocutors had other, weightier issues on their minds than where to get the best wiener schnitzel (not at the campsite on Lake Morat). Our journey was made the more interesting thanks to the invention of Schlaf in Stroh (sleep in the straw). Over a hundred farming families take part in this cheap version of bed and breakfast where guests are lodged in a hay barn and, on ...

... canals and little apartments are amazing. There are 5 main types of shops! Venetian glass, Ventian masks, Pizza, Gelato and Chocolate! We saw a Venetian glass blowing demonstration and wandered the streets getting lost and found again. Wandered to the Rialto bridge markets and had a huge slice of pizza for dinner for 1.50 euros ($3 Australian) the Italians are amazing, most can speak a little english but we have been getting into the spirit, speaking to them in Italian.