Archive for the ‘2008: Europe’ Category
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Zurich – Day 3
My last day in Zurich was gray and I didn’t have too much I wanted to do, so I took it easy and relaxed down at Paradeplatz and had some coffee while watching the passers-by. I’m sorry, but 6.50CHF (like …
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Zurich – Day 2
After returning from Lake Geneva, I had 2 full days remaining in Zurich before flying home on Sunday morning. I didn’t really have much of a gameplan – honestly, I wasn’t overly eager to explore Zurich and probably never would …
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Lausanne & Geneva
So I stayed in an amazingly nice and clean hostel in Lausanne. It was awesome. Lausanne itself is a nice town, very hilly though! I spent the second day wandering around the old town, through narrow cobblestone alleys. I saw …
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Lake Geneva
So I’ve decided that Switzerland is awesome simply because it has several national languages. It’s mindblowing to me that I can start out somewhere where everyone around me is babbling in Swiss-German (Zurich), then suddenly find myself able to understand …
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Zurich – Day 1
The day after we returned from the camping trip was my first real day spent in Zurich. Emi had said he’d meet me at the UBS office in the city. Actually, the office I was visiting was 15mins outside the …
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Lucerne
Our last day, and we had planned on hanging out at the camp beach… except the weather was overcast and gross so instead we took the train to Lucerne and spent the late afternoon there. Honestly we didn’t see too …
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Ticino Camping Trip – Day 2
This was the day we actually did stuff. We woke up with some mediocre coffee and bready things for breakfast, then went into town and took the funicular up to Madonna del Sasso, a church/sanctuary up in the hills.
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Ticino Camping Trip – Day 1
We woke up at 6am to leave for the train station, even though our train to Locarno was at 8:00. Uf.. tired… coffee. And by we, I mean me, Emi, Emi’s flatmate Pascal, and their Danish friend Jasmin.
And the …
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London to Zurich
I had lofty goals for my last day in London: I wanted to return to the Tate Modern, maybe check out a church or wander around Westminster Abbey. But what did I do? I frolicked around the city, got some …