Blogs from Lucerne, North-West, Switzerland, Europe - page 15

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Cold as in, blowing my nose like every 3 minutes. I think the people on the train were starting to get annoyed, besides the old Swiss/German/French (you never can tell) lady that kept smiling and talking to us even though we did nothing to respond other than nod our heads and smile... she was so cute. Actually all old people here are cute! I'm a few days behind on the blog as we are leaving Salzberg today but no worries I will not miss a thing! When we arrived in Lucerne, I was not in the best state but walking out of the train station and seeing different colored buildings along the clear blue river with bridge after bridge with flowers decorating the sides, I forgot about my cold for a second! When we got to ... read more

Rajesh woke me up at 7 am banging on my door and startling the other girls in my room, who asked me if he was my boyfriend. He was showered and ready and gave me a half hour to meet him for breakfast in the dining room. I was so hungry that I ate everything they had for breakfast and even drank 2 cappuccinos. Thank god it was free, else it would have been another rip-off! RV was picking us up in front of his office at Stockerstrasse at 10:00 am, so we took the tram #7 and decided to hit Bahnofstrasse and burn more Swiss francs. The shops open at 8 am and shut at 4 pm. They are closed on Sundays. If that was the case in the States, no one would go shopping! ... read more

We will be holidaying in switzerland and Paris from 26th July 2008 to 5th august 2008 This is a tavelog of our trip Our first trip to europe. Of course I have travelled to france in april and I have uploaded a few of the pictures as a test case to see if it works... read more

I repeat: Lucerne is nowhere near as “quaint” as the guidebooks would have you believe. Once you get past that, which took us a while, it’s a fine city. We set out to see the “old city” of Lucerne, which is supposedly the finest instance of modern mixing with new. In reality, it’s far more new than old, but you can still find traces of the old with the city walls and random narrow alley/street. Getting to the old city brings you through the famous covered bridges, which are splendid, being lined with flowers and having illustrative paintings every few steps on the inside that tell the city’s history. It’s also overflowing with tourists so we hurried on to see the old city. We tried the same random walk here that’s worked so well during the ... read more