So one day, when I was here in Germany, my host family, the Zurns, decided we should go to Switzerland for the weekend I sad okay, sounds good. So offwe go in their Mercedez Benz black stationwagon, zipping down the Autobahn at rediculously fun speeds to Switzerland. We cross the border no problem, and we arrive in Switzerland. The rural areas of Switzerland can be summed up in one or two pictures, so here we go:
Cows in Switzerland: They’re everywhere.
The town we were was a beautiful little place, lots of rolling hills, green grass, not too hot, not too cold. And the last picture is what I got to wake up to for Sunday morning, it was fantastic.
While we were there, we did a few things, we took a cable car from the base to the top of Mount Santis to get these views.
I too lazy to rotate them right now.
This is where we ate lunch.
Here is the huge building at the top of the mountain for tourists.
It was a long ways down.
And I climbed inside a glacier to take this picture.
Oh, and if you’ve been wondering where I’ve been staying, this is my room.
It’s awesome.
Yes, the door slides shut. Also, the blinds are automatic, so I press a button and they close. The door on the window wall has three settings, shut, open, and a third, where if you rotate the handle 180 degrees, so its pointing up, you can open the door like a window, and the top part of it will come away from the wall while the bottom is still, so the entire door leans into the room to make a sweet window type thing. They have a lot of doors and windows like this in Germany.
Anyway, so back to Switzerland. After Mount Santis, me and Moritz went to a little Open Air festival, where we saw a few bands play, it was fun. The little show was centered on a lake, and the stage was on the shore facing the rest of it. The actual lake was a mountain lake that they used as a public swimming pool, kinda cool.
And that last picture was of “Schein: wir sind die Funk” which translates to “Shine: We Are the Funk”. They were fantastic.
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