La Pergola Swiss Q Hotel Bern

... on some prior ski trips to similar altitutdes. Perhaps it's due to the gradual acclimation via the trains, etc. However, back to the view... it was spectacular. If you enjoy mountains, it doesn't likely get much better than this. Our day was a fairly clear one as well. <br><br>When we arrived at Interlaken we then had to take an extended series of trains, lifts, buses, etc. to get to our eventual destination which was Schilthorn ...

... techniques. On Tuesday morning my friend and I returned to the Graduate Institute to try and find a professor we could interview for our impending papers, but to no avail. We were looking for three professors who supposedly had office hours, but maybe office hours are not quite what we are used to. On Tuesday we also had to meet individually with our professors to discuss our topics for our Independent Study Project. The "ISP" takes place in the last month of ...

... until 7 am thanks to the ****** maps the bus stations have and the other three didn't make it back until after us. All were upset with each other and sadly it interfered with all of us being able to hang out for the rest of the trip because of tension amongst the british group. Too bad, me and ross really liked them but **** happens i suppose. luckily they werent really mad at us but at each other.<br><br>I thought I would share this story it is all I have time for right now more to come.

What better way to welcome in another year on this planet than with a trip to Switzerland? Let it be said: I had a phenomenal experience this past weekend. Among other things, my legs are still recovering... Left at a decent time on Thursday morning and rolled into Bern mid-afternoon. (A brief aside, I've been stewing on a good way to express my feelings about the trip and am sorry to say that I haven't been able to ...

... cool, but the sun was still shining. We wandered for a while and then stopped in a Brasserie for some lunch, though i got a crepe rather than restaurant food... actually i had 2 - one was ham and cheese, and the second was the trusty nutella! We wandered for a bit more exploring the massively overpriced shops (Montreux is where the rich and famous hang in Switzerland) - fancy a &euro;500 silver tissue box? Not realy in my budget. After Montreux we drove 5 minutes down the road ...

Hello we're here in Zurich! Dudes the rivers here are crystal clean. Zurichs equivalent of the yarra is spotless, you can easily see the bottom and fish everywhere. The mountains are huge (no snow its summer) and the lakes are beautiful. Carla's beautiful!

... and bars) is closed. in the bright and beating sun today, i walked around the entire town and was tempted to go for a dip in their funky neon deep green river, the aare. but i don't think i'm a good enough swimmer. i wanted to eat fondue or raquelette tonight but apparently it's not served in the summer b/c it's too hot. drats. foiled again ...

... decide to be stay in Swiss. And as that, I start my life here... use to drive together with the motor on every weekend around Swiss, it was great to drive between the hill and the green forest. Zurich is the city where i live and its really a multy-culture city, a great city. You can drive along the lake-side, like Zurich lake, Vierwald-statter lake,Thun lake or south to Tessin where the sun always shine or up to mountain like road to ...

... was next to the tractor. The farmer and his wife were of protestant French extraction, their ancestors having fled Catholic persecution a couple of centuries previously. Now it's not religion, but language that's causing tension. What language should children be taught at school in addition to their mother tongue? Should it be English for commerce and travel or German/French so that people can chat informally with their neighbours?At the train station people had ...

... steep hill or a superb furnicular rail. I took the latter and alighted by the side of the river Aare, next to the strand known as the Marzili which is where Berner and Bernerin alike go to chill. And so do I for a few minutes. Das Parliamentsgebäude (the parliament building) backs onto the same hill I just described. I went round the Swiss federal parliament (not sitting), which is like a very large school room, and then also the room in Bern where Albert ...