Sunday, December 23, 2007
.In Geneva Hotel Moderne.
In a blink of eye, 1 week has almost passed and I am done with my Switzerland Trip. In Geneva now and will be doing my last bit of Swiss travelling later before heading to Charmonix to meet the guys up to spend Christmas together. Ching and Hilda promised to cook a feast, so I am anticipating the sumptuous christmas meal which we are going to have. yumyum.
Spent 17th and 18th in Zurich, staying in a very comfortable and clean Youth hostel, visiting the Solarium for the 1st time, walking around the town, taking a stroll along the river, ice-skating at Lake Zurich and visited the University of Zurich which was really modern and conducive for studying. What shocked us most was the froken lake which we saw along the way.
We spent 18th, 19th and 20th in Lucern and our hotel was awesome too. Ate some Pizza for dinner and headed back for a early night. Visited Mount Titlus, 3020m from Swiss, on the 2nd day where we had some cheap thrill at the children's wonderland. As it was the first time seeing snow, I was really excited and looking at the Swiss Alps was just so surreal. It feels like I was in another world, above the clouds. Played with snow and J, on a few occasions, actually threw hard-rock ice on me! On the 20th, we visited Mount Pilatus and it wasn't that fantastic. Nice view, and long cable-car ride with nice scenery along the way.... but climbing up to the peak using the frozen steps was no joke. A few occasions when J, C and I nearly slipped, just for the sake of taking some picturique shots. haha. Wanted to do some sledging but decided not to because we didn't wanna get dirty. Headed back to town and took pictures with the famous Chapel Bridge. Sat on a ferry which we regretted deeply. The weather was so foggy that we couldn't really see what was outside. We ended up sleeping throughout the 3 hour boat ride. sigh.
Went Bern at night for a really good dinner. We finally had our cheese fondue and Rosti. The rostis were damn delicious but the cheese fondue wasn't exactly great - too much wine! Bern is just a very vibrant capital with many shops and very quaint buildings. J was commenting how nice Bern would look in the day.
Reached Interlaken late at night and following the directions of the hostel, we actually got lost and went all the way to another town, and what made it worse was that there wasn't any bus services anymore! We were stranded in a damn quiet street but I prayed and thank god the hostel staff actually gave us a lift all the way to the hostel. Fantastic. Another very nice accomodation and the hostel actually had many facilities for a very affordable price. The breakfast provided was really good and we felt so at home!
We stayed in Interlaken from the 20th to the 22nd. The next morning, which is the 21st, we visited the renowned JungFrau mountain, which they claim is the top of Europe one can ever get to. We took a really long ride up to 3500m and we were really amazed by the alps! goodness. It was so beautiful and you can't just believe your eyes sometimes. We went to the plateau to get some pictures and it was so windy that the snow kept getting into our eyes. Managed to do some jumping shots before we head down Jungfrau for lunch. Had a cheap deal as the sausage counter was closing and gave us all the leftover sausages and rosti. We stuffed ourselves with all the food that we decided to skip dinner. Had our welcome drink back in our hostel( Champagne with Orange and Syrup ) which tasted really refreshing. Couldn't help ordering another although it costed 5.50 SFr! :P
And today, we headed up to Wengen for our first skiing class. It was expensive bu
t we managed to get used to the ski at the end of the day. J was so enthusiastic that he kept trying all the slopes even nearing closing time. C was progressing quite well too! My knee hurts now and you can see from the photos how shagged I was after the skiing session!
These days, I am getting a little homesick. Miss Singapore food so much and my loved ones back in Singapore. Can't wait to embrace them when I get back. 24 more days.
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