Swiss Alps
28 September 2008
“Munich to Swiss Alps. We stop for lunch in Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein. Enjoy time to shop and sightsee in Lucerne before reaching our idyllic stop in the Swiss Alps.” Contiki Itinerary.
Waking up in Germany while may have been nice I honestly couldn’t say I appreciated it as I woke up with four other people in my tent and still freezing. I took this trip because it was supposed to be summer! Summer was not on the menu and today going to the Swiss Alps I was pretty sure that it was going to get worse.
Packing up our camp in a rather quick fashion we realised that we actually hadn’t lost anyone, no one was passed out laying on the ground somewhere in Oktoberfest. That was rather suprising I mean we were kind of really good at leaving people behing and not being on time, but suprise suprise we were all there and ready to go.
So back on the bus we drove through another lot of scenery which while nice has just strengthened my will to just take planes everywhere, yes I’m up in the air with the possibility of crashing but down here it takes three times as long and there are still crazy drivers down here.
They actually took us through a rather scenic spots but the highlight of this drive was going through Liechtenstein. Kevin pratically stopped the bus on a bridge as Bridget told us that she was in Switzerland, us in the middle were in Liechtenstein and Liam down the back was in Germany. Call me a sucker but I love stuff like that.
Next stop was Lucerne. Now for the first time ever we had to switch currencies we were going to be spending Swiss Francs, I was excited mostly becasue Swiss money is so colourful - reds, greens, blues, yellows this money had it all and in a bit of a twist the 50cent coin in Swiss money is the smallest coin there is and a little bit smaller than our 5 cent coin. We could lose that very easily.
Lucerne was a nice little town nestled in the middle of some huge mountains, so tall that there were clouds floating around the middle, which was something I had never seen before.
Also before we made it back to camp we, at least I think it was now, went to a shop where we could buy Swiss watches and Swiss Army Knifes and look out at that famous Swiss bridge which names escapes me.
I opted not to get anything, for one they were way expensive and I didn’t have anyone to give them to, plus I wasn’t a hundred percent sure that they would make it back from customs alive.
It was a nice little way to spend the afternoon and we were soon headed back to our new camp for the next couple of days.
Switzerland is beautiful, they took the scenic route again and I have to say that I have never seen a more stunning view and our campsite was even better. We had a waterful and we were completey surrounded by mountains, most of them with snow on the top, little houses were the only town in site that looked as though it was still in the 1700’s.
This would be a nice place to stay.
Tags: Munich, Swiss Alps
