Blogs from South-West, Switzerland, Europe - page 117

It has been several days since I've been in Geneva but my settling down has been time consuming and tumultuous, and hence it is not until now that I have the opportunity to scribble some of my experiences down. So, I guess I should go through it in a pragmatic chronological sequence. June 8th - I arrived in London 4 hours behind because of mechanical difficulties with the Air Canada plane. I was sweating bullets on touchdown as I feared missing my EasyJet connection at Gatwick airport. Thankfully, buses run regularly between Heathrow and Gatwick, and I was able to get there with a full 40 minutes to spare. On the bus between the airports, I met a medical physicist from Ottawa who was quite the world traveller. I perhaps made the mistake of adding fuel ... read more

I got to Interlaken a few days ago and its been intense. Yesterday I went Canyoning which is basically a combo of high jumps into waterfalls and rock climbing, and body surfing down the river. We did a few jumps, one from about 10ft and the higest one from about 40ft it was crazy. We also layed down and let the water just carry you down the rapids, seemed pretty dangerous but only 2 people got minor cuts. I only got 2 mins of the internet left but in about an hour ill be jumping off a cliff and hangliding, kinda crazy. Ill try to buy a token later and let you all know how it goes.... read more

Date: 31.12.2004 Destination: Zurich, Switzerland Day: 5 We reached Zurich early in the morning. We had a few hours to look around before heading to Interlaken so after exiting from the train station, we walked straight to the old town. There are a lot of boutiques and posh shops around, but nothing original to Switzerland. We were hungry so we find some cheap food in the old town but to no avail, the cheapest food, a kebap costed around RM30! No choice but to eat it. Zurich is very peaceful and clean, feels like an isolated mountain town from the world, with the snowy mountains around. As we walked further to Grossmuenster Cathedral, we saw just a normal small church. Maybe the 4 tiring days of touring Italy had taken its toll, so we were now ... read more

Another solo trip, this time to Geneva and Nuechatel.... read more

Right after finishing up my semester in Lithuania, I flew down to Geneva via Copenhagen in order to join my travel study (Geneva 2 Rome, TWU). Due to flight schedules, I ended up flying in the night before the group arrived. Since I had never been in the city and couldn’t stomach prices for transportation or lodging, I stayed in the Airport over night. A must do experience for everybody (once is enough though). Geneva was a fun airport to do this in, because it is a minor enough transport hub to actually shut down at night. The police came by to make sure that those of us who were staying would be staying all night, and then proceeded to lock the doors. I assumed that there was some form of fire escape available to us, ... read more