Metropole Swiss Q Hotel Bern

We let the girls sleep in and then broke the news that we were going to have a quiet day in the hostel because it was raining and that they had to do a few hours of homework. Looking at the screen in the hostel, you could see that it was snowing heavily on the mountains.

By afternoon, the rain had turned to drizzle, so we ...

... We were interviewing him for our international security papers, and spent an hour and a half talking about Afghanistan, climate change, international law, soft power, negotiating in conflict, state sovereignty, education, precedents set by powerful countries, the role of the United States, and failed states. After this interview, my classmates and I were on such a high, and kept remarking "This is why we are in Switzerland." Dr. Murphy was also the first self ...

... br>Switzerland is expensive! Other people Kiplyn and I have met here agree. In fact, while we were eating fish and chips at an English pub in Bath, England, we met a couple that chatted with us for a while. They warned us about the high prices, and told us that Switzerland is expensive for everyone. A typical meal in a modest cafe would cost at least 20 US dollars. Our only salvation was the grocery stores!
Yesterday, Kiplyn and I ...

... it now falling on the long street of old buildings and a church peak to some church in the background. it is falling in large clumps now like it is determined to get to rest on the ground and slip someone up. i am so grateful to God for the perfect weather and this is perfect timing as we can go alot of shopping undercover here and hang in little cafes and watch the snow from the warmth. It is beautiful. anyhoo nothing to do in bern but some statues and i ...

... Then you leave and you miss them. Its a pretty drive through the farm country to Bern. We stopped at a rest stop (panoramic view) because it had a Harley shop (for Barb's son in law). But it was closed, permanently, so no luck for a T-shirt. Dee had shopped the web for a Hotel in Bern and come up with one about 5 km out of the city central. Hotel Sternen, another beauty. Typical area small town ...

... open on the way down so i missed the lovely views, but as soon as we got back down the bottom i was all powernaped up and ready to go. We had a drink in a pub in the town, the wandered the car free streets. It was very busy, tourists everywhere. By the time we walked up to the end of the main street we were over it and decided to head back to Bern. Not to say that the town wasnt cool, cause it was! One of the hotels even had a horse and cart to take their clients from the ...

Oliver (the middle brother) and I have had a great week. + We spent a day in Bern with one of our cousins, Manuela, and had a great day walking around and catching up on what has been going on. + Climbed one of our favorite mountains above my late grandma's village and then afterwards we visited grandma, we had great ...

... and asks us in english if we're on holiday, we say yeah, he waves us in and says welcome then Christian shows the guy his passport, which is from Kosovo, and the guy says in German that he's very sorry but he can't let him in Swiss passports only. Christian says he's lived in Switzerland for six years, works here, and he had just been in the very same club the week before! The bouncer says I'm very sorry, but Swiss passports only. So the American and ...

... Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten haben die Welt zumindest in uns**** Vorstellung schrumpfen lassen und **möglichen es uns, mit Leuten aus jedem Erdteil in Echtzeit zu kommunizi**en od** gar inn**halb v**hältnismässig kurz** Zeit selbst dahin zu reisen. In Wahrheit ist uns** Globus jedoch so riesig und weitläufig geblieben wie eh und je. Glücklich**weise, denn so ist es uns auch heute noch möglich, seine wahren Ausmasse zu **messen und nicht bloss eine abstrakte ...

... air. Very picturesque but easily forgettable. If you're making your way to see Geneva just for this stream of water, don't. We were intrigued for a few minutes and then we kept going on. The rest of our time in Geneva involved us watching swans on the lake and that was about it. When I was assaulted by a sprinkler, we decided to head back to the station and book it on out of there. I think we spent a total of around 2 hours in Geneva and that was ...