okaysss yuan gui zhen zhuan. so we were stranded at milan. managed to squeeze a booking on the cisalpino (hope i didnt get e name wrong) train which was really quite squeezy! but the scenery from the windows were grreeeeat. went past lugano and regretted not making a stop there... the lakes there were soooo beautiful! lake como is there.. and the bellagio is rather famous for its scenery. oh wells.
arrived at zurich about 9pm, and hurried to find a hostel for the night. were snubbed by the haughty receptionist at our first choice, but were v warmly welcomed by this aussie dude at our 2nd. we were reaaaally lucky coz he was gonna close in half an hour's time.
i think our hostel was situated rather near the red-light district of zurich. either that or zurich pple have a v strong appetite for strip shows coz at every corner, there were shows! haha. i rem i caught a glimpse of what was inside when the door was pushed open by a patron. hmmm but it was too dark. haha, anw the limmat river, which runs through the city, is really romantic by night! haha too bad there was 3 really bright people ard that day la hor, mr and jt. :P
our next day, we split up coz of hmm.. differing agendas. haha. so jinteng and mingrui stayed near home base and explored zurich, while ivina, gerald and i took a 44SFr train ride to luzern, abt an hour away.
luzern's pretty pretty pretty! a lake greeted us once we stepped outta the station.. and everything looked out of a postcard! got a route from the tourist info centre and set off on a slow languorous walk for the day.
the swiss do not need to work, it seems.. everyone is just out, sitting in al fresco sections of cafes, enjoying their breakfast, brunch or lunch under the sun. no one working on a friday afternoon (other than waitresses in cafes and salespeople)! we walked and walked, climbed up some towers to get really great views of the city. did as the swiss did and slacked for quite sm time in a cafe with some tea n coffee and cakes n continued our walk in the evening to the Dying Lion carved into a stone wall above a pond.
just a slow friday afternoon in luzern :)
more of switzerland awaited us in zurich, which 3 of us had yet to explore. but honestly it got a bit sian after some time coz zurich is really a place mostly to sit and relax and drink coffee and read a book by the river. and well, we didnt have books haha. so we didnt manage to gain much, just walked around, window-shopped, admired the many watches on sale and the zurichsee, played some charades on the rooftop of our hostel.. and tried unsuccessfully to try some of the cheese fondue. oh the smell of e fondue! haha. impossible to ignore. wafting up to our hostel from the restaurant nearby, downstairs. it's strong to the extent of being pungent at times.. but we still wanted to try! were snubbed again by irritating waiters, pui!
so we waited it out at our rooftop, playing charades, hurling verbal abuse at irritating snobbish waiters, until the time came for us to take our FIRST overnight train to paris. exciting, non?
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