14.8.05

Day 53 Lausanne

As you can see, neither of us has posted an entry for a while, and its basically because internet cafes are quite expensive in switzerland...and we're lazy.

Anyway, we stayed 2 nights in the youth hostel in Zurich. Standard concrete facilities built in the 60's/70's, and internet which cost 12SFr/hr (12AUD or 5GBP). Not much to say about Zurich other than its very very clean (apparently the joke goes that you can eat off the streets...i'll be sticking to a plate thanks very much swiss-joke-guy), and you can use the public transport for free. (when i say free, i mean we jumped on the trams and didn't pay...haha, suckers...) If we'd got caught, doubtless it would have turned into some sort of international bloodbath involving the large blade on the swiss army knife.

After Zurich, we left unscathed for Interlaken, a backpackers hotspot. I previously visited this little town in '92 and had a great time. A lot has changed in 13 years. Its now jammed with Koreans, so many in fact, that they have a hostel just for them (Koreahof). Apart from the hordes of tourists, its still nice. Yesterday i went canyoning again, i can tell you its a lot different from Turkey. For 1, the swiss actually have this little thing called health and safety, which means you get a helmet and wetsuit and stuff. Second, the water in turkey was about 20 degrees warmer. I got to rappel down a cliff, go down a couple of ziplines and jump off heaps of rocks into water.

If you have been following from previous entries, you'll know that one of my goals is to jump from a large cliff into water in every country we visit. So far so good. Another goal of mine is re-enact a scene from a Bruce Lee/Jackie Chan/Jet Li movie, with a local inhabitant as my opponent...but thats another story.

We're off to Sion tonight, and then off to Zermatt the following day for some badass wicked mountain biking...If you don't hear from me again it means i'm checking the swiss hospital factilities.

Auf Weiderseien

3 Comments:

At 17/8/05 3:17 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi,

excellent you did remind me of something - I did leave a velcro strap off my pack in the emergency ward at the Geneva Hospital. Would you able to buy another pack and put that crucial velcro strap into that new pack and return it back with you. Many thanks - and remember to only jump off the rocks that are not shaped or feel or smell like lion seals.
Excellent - looking forward to the return of all these essentials.

 
At 19/8/05 1:59 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

There's no lion seals in the canyons of Interlaken... unless of course 'lion seal' is a euphemism for 'corpse of drowned aussie backpacker'. there'd be the odd one of those.
and yeh, they'd smell a bit. (even more than a living aussie backpacker)

 
At 20/8/05 5:29 am, Blogger Nick said...

If i knew what you were on about i would give a witty reply

 

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