My last full day in Switzerland, I spent an unexpected, and great, night in Zuerich, about 4 hours north of Ftan. On Sunday morning, I took the train with some fellow camp counselors who were also going to Zuerich (3 of them who were going to stay the night, and one who flew out that night.) My intent was to go with them on the train to Zuerich, and once there, buy an overnight train ticket to Berlin, leaving that night at around 8. When I tried to buy the ticket, I was told that all trains to Berlin that coming [View Full Entry]

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The Trip Begins.... Liebe Leute von Nah und Fern, das isch min persönliche Reiseblog, well mi scho paari denoh gfroget händ obs au föteli git vo mir ond em Steph, wenn mir unterwägs sind in Canada. Zerscht zu üs bedne, för die wo üs ned esoooo guet kännet. Ich bin de Simi ond han irgendwie grad es Reisefieber ufgläse ond en riiiise Drang noch Kanada zgoh ond das Land go zbereise... Naja wiiters zu mir müessteder mich persönlich froge... Min Reisepartner isch de Steph, i känne ihn vo de Jungschi gnauer gseit vom Buebe-Früla (www.früla.ch). Mi [View Full Entry]

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We were all up by 9:30 today so we could eat a big breakfast and leave to go to Zurich for the day. The train ride was only an hour and we played cards the whole way... the only problem was I thought we had purchasd three train tickets, but we only had two... so when they came to check we were in trouble, but we lucked out when the girl sitting next to us gave us a ticket that is good all day on any train, so we were able to escape the huge fine!! Zurich was really cool, there [View Full Entry]

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im in zurich. when i saw how much it cost to buy a train ticket from rome to zurich, i had to switch some things around so that i could use my eurrail pass to get myself up there for free (free as in 20 euro in booking fees--at least its better than 100). two lost hostel reservation deposits later, i arrived in zurich where i would spend 4 nights with a supercool couple that my parents met while vacationing in tahiti. i arrived by train last night, and did little more than take the scenic route (tram rather than train) [View Full Entry]

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I want to recommend if anyone travels in Switzerland to get the Swiss pass to take the train around. It gave us so many discounts on other things and made it possible for us to take free city transportation too. Such a nice feature to not have to figure out tickets to trains, trams, and buses! This will be a quick one because we made a short stop in Zurich for the day before our night train. We planned to make it an easier day and roamed through the city seeing some of the churches, but I was really interested in [View Full Entry]

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We woke up around 9:30 today and we made our breakfast (and unfortunatly couldn't get the coffee maker to work so we were without with our daily caffiene fix...) Lauren and I relaxed while Dave and Jesse went for a run and then we got ready to go on a 'walk'. And when Dave says it's a walk, he really means that we are going on a hike... but it was still worth the work because we enjoyed a nice meal when we finished. The restaurant raises their own cattle and so we had some of the local sausages with a [View Full Entry]

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We all slept in really late today because we were pretty exhausted from yesterday. After having some breakfast, Lauren and I worked on hanging all of our clothes outside since they were still really wet. The two of us walked into the town to look around at some shops, we saw a lot of cool stuff, but nothing worth spending our money on. Before we walked back to the house, we went to the grocery store to pick up food supplies for our lunches and dinners. After we got back, we made a frozen pizza because we were both so hungry. [View Full Entry]

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We woke up around 9 this morning to the police at the door, we were all upstairs except for Lauren, who had to try and tell them that Dave's parents weren't home but struggled because they didn't understand English... They had Lauren in handcuffs when we arrived at the door (naww just kidding) but luckily Dave arrived just then and was able to sort things out, it turns out they found something that belonged to Dave's dad, so it wasn't really a big deal at all... Dave brought us breakfast which consisted of different kinds of bread, honey and some milk... [View Full Entry]

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liebe zusammen ja, heute ist ein sehr guter tag - mein smilen hat sich gerade nochmals um zwei zentimeter verbreitert...! langsam wirkt's verkrampfend... :-))) denn: seit heute morgen bin ich stolzer besitzer eines schweizer passes! - aber nein, nicht eines x-beliebigen, sondern meines lieben alten reisepasses, den ich schon zu vermissen began. ja, und das verrückte an der ganzen sache ist, dass auf der seite zwölf ein nigelnagelneues wunderschönes chinesisches visum für 30 tage klebt! wenn der pöstler eine frau gewesen wäre, hätte ich ihn geküsst... aber der, der heute da war, hätte das [View Full Entry]

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We woke up around 7:30 this morning so we could finish packing and have our breakfast before checking out of the hostel and heading to the train station. Our train left Rome at 9:30 am and was about 4 hours long... Jesse, Lauren and I played cards for part of the way and then tried to take a nap to catch up on some sleep. We only had about 20 minutes to change trains in Milan and our next train was about 3 hours to Zurich. Jesse, Lauren and I were in a compartment, which is nicer because it is quieter [View Full Entry]

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