Day 8 Running round in Switzerland
Early in the morning, we packed and left our awesome hotel room and headed off for our walking tour around Switzerland.First off, we headed of the Lion monument which a famous landmark in Lucerne. The monument we visited is a replica of the original which is really really small. The monument is carved out by the side of a huge rocky cliff. It commemorates the Swiss guards massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution.
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| With my kind MOOOOOOOO |
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| Lion Monument |
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| The sad little lion |
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| One of the random buildings near the monument |
Next, we went to the Chapel Bridge which is another famous landmark in Lucerne
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| Chapel Bridge (from the bus) |
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| The Bridge |
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| The cute little tree |
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| Scenic view |
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| People photography (Along the streets) |
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| Cute little doggy |
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| Check my boot out |
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| Walk next to me? |
After a long long time at the watch shop, we headed off towards Berne. We drove for quite a distance before arriving at our first stop, the bear pit in Berne. There was suppose to be 6 bears there but after a long search we only managed to find one lonely bear eating grass on the side of the area.
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| Cause there is no real bear to take pictures with |
After looking at that cute little bear, we went off for lunch. Shared half a chicken with my mum (bought it at the super market where we bought our chocolates) It tasted quite good for "cheap" food in Europe
Our tour group literally swiped all the chocolate off the shelves. I bought a little, the rest really bought A LOT!! Giotto is like one of the best chocolates there that we could find. It's something like ferro rochette but just without the nut inside and it's like filled with the same thing as kinder bueno. Tastes awesome
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| CHOCOLATE |
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| GIOTTO |
After the shopping break, we continued on our journey to Dijon, France. It took us 4 hours to reach and by the time we were there, it was already dark.
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| Along the road |
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| Road trip |
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| Clouds |
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| Random road trip selfie |
Along the way, Karlina showed us a movie (at the request of my dad LOL) it is Taken. (I believe it was to scare us) It's a story about 2 teenage girls going to Paris to follow their idols and they ended up being kidnapped and sold off as prostitutes. It's really scary especially if you're like going to Paris the next day. FREAKY MUCH!!!
After being on the road for so damn long, we finally arrived in Dijon! It was already dark since the sun sets early during Winter and we had our dinner at the hotel. The hotel that we were staying in is like a small inn. There is a play area with and Xbox360 and many other stuff for kids to play with and most importantly , there was wifi. The hotel is only 2 stories tall and our room is right at the end of the block on the ground floor. Having the corner unit is not always a good thing, our room is right at the end and beyond that is forested area, there are no lights, nor wee there any bright lamps nearby (it's kinda creepy and dangerous actually) After dinner, we had our own free time and my family went out to play with the laser that we brought along from Singapore. We could see the laser beam and that shows how dark the area was (and how creepy it is)
Off to Day 9 in PARIS
Labels: Berne, Curry?, Dijon, Europe, Foodie, France, fun, holiday, Lucerne, Swiss, Switzerland
Day 7 ❅ Snowy Germany ❅
After a good night's sleep at the hotel (Did I mention that our hotel was awesome, cause it is a corner room it's like HUGE and really cool), we headed out to Titisee, Germany. [This is actually an optional tour that is not included and we paid for it, it's not mentioned in our list of tours as well so...]
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| My sofa pull out bed |
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| The "Queen" sized joint bed |
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| Really cool bathroom |
We drove from Switzerland all the way through towards Germany. It wasn't a short journey for sure. When we arrived at the custom to go to Germany we realised that it was SNOWING!!!! Everyone got off the bus to go to the wash room and ended up taking pictures as well (When will you find snow in a warm Europe during winter. It wasn't even like winter when we were there)
Colmar had really nice architectural and all but... the toilets *Shakes head*
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| Public toilets ?! |
There were many people walking their dogs on the streets as we strolled along. We went to a Christmas market and had some chocolate waffles. Compared to Singapore's waffles (those from bakeries that I've eaten at), the waffles there was just AWESOME! The owner was very kind and gave us a lot of chocolate and it tasted really nice.
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| "没有眼看" |
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| "Oh boy!" |
After spending a short while walking around the Christmas market, we had to gather to head back to Switzerland for our own dinner.
We went back to out hotel room, had a little rest and went down for dinner. My dad decided on a MacDonald's dinner since we were all too tired and lazy to go out for better food. I have say that food in Europe is really expensive, we had 3 meals (one each with one upsize) and it costs us 35 Francs (about S$50) They even charged up 20 cents for ketchup sauce (WTF?!)
Day 7 was really a fun day because there was snow in Germany. I managed to make the sequel to my "chicken炖冬菇" series which started in Korea way back in 2009. Though our main purpose to visit Germany was to look at the lake but it seemed like the main purpose of our tour there shifted to shopping. We were given WAY WAY WAY tooooooo much time to shop in that ONE shop and the rest of the time was just squeezed out and answered with an excuse of "no time". I guess at least there was snow and it really didn't really feel that bad. If there weren't snow I guess everyone would make noise since the selling point was the lake and NOT the shopping.
Labels: Black forest, Colmar, Europe, France, fun, Germany, holiday, Snow, Titisee
