Lindenhof Brienz

(Steve)

After trying to find somewhere to stay in Zurich and finding nothing reasonably priced, we opted to stay in Lucerne about an hour away and just do a day trip into Zurich. Lucerne was really nice, we enjoyed our last few days in Europe and managed to do just a bit more walking.Being another smaller town, we were able to walk around most of it in a day - the old town was built on a river along with an old covered ...

So We are in Lucerne today. I slept fabulously for some reason and we have spent the day wandering the city and taking it all in. The place is beautiful and I could eat enough chocolate to warrant the buying of an extra plane ticket to seat my rolls! Everything is VERY expensive though and the Franc is confusing to convert for my budget that is written in Euros :) We visited a way cool wooden bridge today which actually got fairly well destroyed in a ...

Nusileidę islendame netoli Brienz miestelio ir prie jo esančio Brienz ezero (Brienzer See). Vaziuojam skaidraus kalnų ezero pakrante ir kyla noras jame issimaudyti. Sustojus pirmoje pasitaikiusioje aikstelėje paaiskėja, kad vanduo ezere tikrai saltas, todėl maudymosi plano atsisakom. Vaziuojam toliau ir privaziuojam Interlaken miestel ...

... lam working for Grandfather ownes a Crepperie their so we often visit and spend the afternoons eating sucre (sugar and lemon) crepes and then walking around the lake side watching the anchored boats and swans. In Ouchy l visited the Olympic Musuem- which was interesting- though l was more taken with its spectuacular location and outdoor art exhibits! Ouchy reminds me somewhat of St Kilda- with people rollar blading around its water ...

... just made cheese, although didn't like it that much. But the cream of the day was the awesome swiss lunch here of fish gujons & bangers on mash. I must have tasted the best bangers in the world. Visitors also had the option to cook their own food at barbeque areas at several places. BBQ isn't on our modern BBQ stand, but so traditional... like our Indian Choolha. There was this shallow well walled in stones, with ...

... to watch the clouds pass over the mountains as the storm approached. We stayed one more night so we could go to Interlaken despite being told that it wasnt so great. We paid 25 francs to get there and to put it briefly, it blew. If we had lots of money we could have done some various adventure sport stuff (canyoning, Base jumping, skydiving, etc) or taken another train to some more high villages. But not this trip. We went ...

... chocolate and had a bit more time to get to know each other and become great mates. so the terrible twosome adventure began! found the IFYE people who were lovely girls (one of which was like a female version of Gus - gorgeous, funny, smart but wearing all her cloths!) and took off to our accommodation but got lost on the way and saw some very famous bridges, trees and cars (or so they told us, i was not convinced. you have to get up pretty early to put one past this girl ...

We took the fast train to Zurich. Only one hr by train. I really enjoy taking the train. They are very clean... fast... and you get to enjoy the country side. Much better than a plane.. Jessica and I spent a few hrs in the Zurich train station.. my friend could not pick us up till the evening.. so we did alot of people watching.. its soo interesting to watch people. One guy was brushing his teeth in the trash can.. another guy was walking with ...

... We then left our house right away (without any dinner), and off we went to the meeting. We managed to get ourselves quite lost on the way to the meeting, we walked around the entire town of Wettingen. When we finally arrived, 45 minutes late (Curtis even beat us), we rang the doorbell, and no one heard so we waited outside until the meeting was finished. Then we went inside and met with the German instructor, who was really nice! She forgave us for being late and so it was a bit of a ...

... sure whether I was walking towards the lake or not. As big as it was, I saw no signs of it up ahead. I watched some paragliders fly through the air and sway down to ground level. I noticed another mountain on the opposite side of the valley that looked promising. So, I decided to cross over and target that. On the way, trudging through mud and by a golf course, I found the lake right there in front of me. It had been there the whole time. I followed the path for a while in the ...