Thursday, 15 August 2013

Switzerland

   I arrived by train from Venice at 9:30pm. I hadn't had any supper so once I found my hostel and checked in and dropped my bags, I went next door to the Thai Restaurant and got some good ol' pad thai. There was enough for me to take home and have for the next night. I went right to bed so that I could get up early and start my adventures. 
   I woke up at 8 and had some breakfast and then started off. I ducked into a store and asked the girl working there if she had any ideas of where I could go walking distance in Interlaken that had nice scenery. She explained a couple places right in town where there were nice bridges and rivers. After that, she told me to head to the lake. She told me it was a 45 minute walk, but I thought that was doable. I started off, walking in sync to my music but nobody ever knew! It was such a pretty walk. Tractors were cutting and bailing hay, para-gliders were high up in the air and I even got to see one landing and got a great photo. Once I got to the lake I just sat and enjoyed the view. Once I got bored I went to the information desk and asked them for their opinion of what I should do that didn't involve the mountains because I knew I was going there the next day. they told me to take the train and so I stopped at the capital Bern, and then to Thun and then finally to Spiez. They were all very different and cute spots. Bern was more busy as it is the capital city and Spiez was a cute town on the water. I got back and heated up my left overs and headed up to bed as I was exhausted from walking all day. 
   When I got up to bed I had 2 new roommates, Jamie and Amber from Arizona. We got along right from the get go and boy was I excited to talk to someone haha. We chatted for awhile and made plans to meet up the following day after our day adventures. I got up around 8, had breakfast and then headed to the bus station. I had to take a free bus to a station and then had to pay $63 to take a train up to the highest points in Europe which is Jungfrau. Unfortunately it only took me to the stop before Jungfrau and it was another $150 or more to get up to that point. I decided that it was just as good from the spot I was at. I took my packed lunch, climbed up a hill and took in all of the scenery. It was possibly the most beautiful scenery. I then took the train back down to a place before I got on the bus and went for a hike to see some more waterfalls. These ones were less impressive. It was however pretty cool that I was walking through a mountain and that the waterfalls were inside of the mountain, but other than that I was not very impressed and wouldn't likely go again but the walk there was amazing so I got something good out of it :) I spent some time in that town and then went back down. I got back to the hostel around 6pm and met up with Amber and Jamie who went canyoning. I met 2 couples that they had met on their day and we all became great friends over beers and stories. They just loved hearing my travelling stories and told me that I should do a comedy show that outlines my travels or write a book but they preferred seeing me tell the stories haha. We went to another part of the hostel where more people were having drinks and got back around midnight. The next morning was cool and a bit rainy so we all hung out until I had to leave around 1pm. We said our sad goodbyes, I felt like I was leaving my best friends for years. They really were amazing people and I really hope to see them all again someday soon!! Jamie and Amber I will actually, I am staying with them while I am in Paris so we are all super pumped especially me to know I am going to have friends for 3 days in a row in such an amazing place!! 
    I spent the afternoon in Zurich which is the second most expensive city in Switzerland. It was a really nice city but I was tired so didn't do too much walking around. That evening at 9pm I boarded a train to travel all night to Amsterdam. 

Until then folks!! My travels are coming to an end :( 

1 comment:

  1. Keep up the posts. You have to be one of the funniest story tellers there is. Your friends are right. I can picture everything in my mind as you draw the picture. Love you and have fun

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