Roter Turm Solothurn

... for a beer. My other housemate is away in Germany.
Sunday: Today, is the first time I haven’t been busy in what feels like forever!!
My new apartment is very close to the old city, which is actually still the main area of the city. It takes me a couple of minutes with the tram (which conveniently stops out the front of our apartment) or maybe 15 minutes to walk there. It also means that it’s only going to take me 25 minutes to walk to work instead of just ...

... main-fait. Si délicieux ! Le chocolat a fondu pratiquement dans ma bouche. Je me suis assis pour le dîner à un café qui a négligé le lac avant prendre l'unité de retour à l'hôtel. J'aime toujours mon hôtel, même si le c'est un peu d'une unité de la ville.

Jour 3:

Je me suis réveillé tôt ce matin et gauche avant le lever du soleil. J'ai voulu regarder le lever du soleil sur le Lac Des Taillères. Après le lever du soleil, j'ai loué un vélo et ai pris la piste ...

... and passenger and our arrival into Switzerland across a tiny bridge were the max width was inches bigger then randon, was well worth the white knuckle ride. Having not learned from our French mistake of looking for a park up whist its still light, we arrived in Switzerland after dark and not only was it dark, I was stressed out from the drive and Ned was stressed out just cos I was stressed out, we proceeded to find a park up cos we ain't doing camp sites.... and I must say ...

... the station and slept until the trains started running again. Looking like some freezing homeless guy I am sure - haven't shaved in days I was no different in comparison to a homeless guy on another bench just down the other side of the station. Now that my dignity was well behind me, I took the next train to Geneva and back to Bern, then to Geneva again and back to Bern - just for a warm place to catch up on my sleep before the city opens again. Finally I make it to the hostel which ...

... trains anyway) for the night. We were discussing this on the train when we noticed the man next to us snickering. It turned out he spoke English and was listening to our whole conversation. He suggested we stay in Basel. After further pondering we decided to go for it and just continue straight to Zurich. We didnt want to ...

... each language, like please, thank you, hi, bye, you're welcome, excuse me, do you speak English?, stuff like that. Even though we could get by, I still wished I spoke the language. Going to other countries, only makes me want to learn their language more so I could communicate easily with everyone. The French were the most stuck up about not speaking English. You would ask people if they spoke English in French, and they'd say only a little. Then they would speak perfect ...

... too with a lovely invite from Simon (the mad ex Ozzie exchangee) to go on a boat on the river between Thun and Bern. How nice i thought and went along looking forward to a lovely cruise on the river. But by boats they meant rafts and by ride they meant saturating paddling through some mini rapids! so while everyone else was appropriately attired in bathers and bordies, i had my jeans, boots and ski jacket on...and stayed dry for about 10 minutes! luckily Ursi had told me to ...

... besides the wonderful hospitality of Daria) is our trip to the movies to see 'Capote'... You may think at this point that I want to make some comment about the film and its contents, but I am more inclined to comment on the GIANT SLIDE that leads one down to the level where the movie cinemas are!!! Snaking down playfully next to the four ...

... the country, was ruled by patrician families up until the late eighteenth-century revolutions. The early nineteenth-century quarrels in politics and religion led to civil war, with Luzern at the heart of the Catholic rebel Sonderbund - an association which, after Confederate forces had reasserted their control in 1847, led to Luzern being passed over for the choice of federal capital. By this time, though, tourism to Switzerland had already begun, and with the ...

... fun, we met some people from other tours and continued to bond. The next day we got to sleep in, and then Doug and I rented some bikes. The plan was to bike to Interlaken (good thing we didn't as we had no clue how uphill the return would have been), but the Kiwi bike shop guy convinced us to see the mountainy sites instead. We bike to the Tremmelbach falls, where we saw 10 different chutes from a glacial waterfall ...