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Published: November 16th 2007
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He is in a Switz mag!
Aaron Kwok.....how lucky... wellwell, since Internet was so expensive around...never got to write and now..
lets see...
Bern!
The capital but its small! but also met Kristine and her flatmates! very great people!
Bern has a nice old town, the parliament was closed for construction ><"
along the streets they have these colourful columns of differetn characters and a nice clock tower! coooool! really enjoyed strolling around the town..too bad I went around the evening so it was getting dark.....
Made a great JiaoZi meal with Kristine and her friends all loved it! so gooooood!=)
They all came from Basel so I decided to take a daytrip there!
Bern is so far my fav. old town in Switz!
Basel!
another nice little city.....there was an autumn fair going on, so I went to the tourist info office to ask for the map and where it was...the lady kept saying its for little kids and the rides are too small for me! haaaa and finally circled out all the places with rollercoasters on the map for me!!! haaaaa it was hilarious...and I was just going for the foood......haaa!
Anyways, walked around town, have a nice cathedral that was half under construction, but could
actually go into the yard and from the back with a nice view! The centre and the squares were alright, but I liked the feel of this city...warmer than Zurich (well it was a Sunday there so I guess cant really compare...), a little bigger than Bern, so for the mordern part, I like Basel! wahhhaaaaaa!
Thun!
Thun is a very small town between Bern and Interlaken....its so beautiful!!!!! right by the river and the lake (like the other ones) but I really like how simple everything is! great impression of this town. They have a little Castle and Cathedral on the hilltop....was freezing so didnt wanna walk up....walked all the way to the other side of the town and decided to go up anyways! haaaaaa.....great view=)
Interlaken!
spent 3 nights here, and one of them was going to Jungfraujoch.
Went to my hostel, it was a nice one=) Some Koreans girls came in the first night, didnt chat much. Met a guy from Beijing the 2nd night, good chats. and a Thai family the 3rd night that was very sweet and nice! Invited me to their place when I visit Bangkok! haaaa!
Interlaken didnt have much to
Coool fountain!
saw it in a booklet in the tourist office and went searching for it afterwards!! godo it was easy to find...haaaa! see, a nice big park overlooking the snowcapped mountains, freezing weather and a nice peaceful town full of Korean tourists....haaaaa!
On the 3rd day the sky was beautiful! so I went paragliding! first needa ride up the mountains...and there I got a little carsick already, not too bad tho, so got there and flew off! WHOOOOAAAAAH! Amazing feeling, tho not as exciting as I thought..haaaaa! the view was fabulous though!!!!!!!! loved it!!! except at the end the guy started doing some tricks and I got really sick from it...haaaaaaaa...but still...great!
I still wanna do skydiving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jungfraujoch!
The big touristy thing here, the highest train station in Europe! Not good on bad weather, I went on a gloomy day and at the top, there was a storm! so basically, went up, no views and cannot go out to the glacier!!!!ARGH!!!!!! ><" The most expensive part of the ride was through a tunnel.....very disappointing.....oh well, did pass through some very beautiful villages, must come skiing in the summer next time! haaaa! (yes, the skiing area up the top is open in the summer......)
Interlaken!
So ya, this was the base and a nice city.....but not too much to see....very beautiful
dangerous!!!
they had a few around town! funny...
and the Switz claim they have the highest suicide rate...so is it Sweden or Switz? lakes and rivers though. My last day here was Beautiful!!! I didnt wanna go up the mountains again, so decided to go Paragliding!!!!! WOAH!!!!!! it was a lot of fun!!!!! Love to be up high and flying is amazing!!! However......before that, first got a little carsick going up the mountains... not bad tho, then flying was alright till the guy started doing a rollercoaster roll down for landing......;loved it!!! but got really sick afterwards....=(
So that was fun and the rest of my day spent in bed recovering.......haaaaaa!
Montreux and Vevy!
The next day, took the Golden Pass Panorama train to the wine regions in Switz! Snowing all the way, then rained all the way!!! shitey weather!!!!!!! Windy and Freezing cold, so guess what? I didnt see any vineyards. Ok, that was alright, nothing I can do ma....but what pissed me off most,.....;Montreux had a great time visiting the Chateau de Chiffion? sth like that. the location of it was Superb!!!!!! right by the lake...oooooo....facing the Alps.....oooooo....
Then I took the train to Vevey, and MY CAMERA DIED AGAIN!!!!! THE 3rd Freakin TIME!!!!!!! This is unforgivable, I am gonna go and have a blast at the Ricoh Customer Service
in HK first thing when I get back!!!!!!!!grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!! ><"
So Vevey was not fun, went to see the nice church and walked around a bit then left for Lausanne lu.
Lausanne!
My last stop in Switz! met my CS host and the first night she brought me out to this Short Film Screening...a bunch of very artistic, creative people!!!!! so cooooool!!! the films...the ones done by her theatre group were very good!!! and others in the 2nd half was good..but the first half was kinda...boring....
The next day I toured around Lausanne, they have a very nice old town and Cathedral, a nice Saturday Market and all...but it was raining still so it wasnt too fun to walk for toooo long. and approaching evening was so cold I just had to return!!!! Then they cooked dinner and one of her housemate's fa,ily grows grapes and make wine!!! so he talked a bit abotu wine and stuff....interesting!
That was the night, next morning had Brunch with another friend of hers, very fun gal as well!!!!!!!!! then they sent me off to the train station and off I go, on a 8 hour trip to France.....
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