I like cows…not the cold

Arrived in Switzerland…and man its cold. We did our hike to find a place to stay and on the way we passed a public park with sculptures of cows…..Peter corrected me and told me they were real. So the whole park was filled with cows. You can hear them walking around dinging their cow bells. Apparently it’s too cold for them in the winter, so they bring them down from the mountains and they chill in the park…quite odd, but the locals don’t think anything of it….I want to pet the cows.



We checked in…the hostel is nice and clean and then we went to dinner…had some local Swiss food…..hash browns, with Swiss cheese and a fried egg….yummy.

Day one…naked men and snow

Its cold….did I mention that? All the mountains are closed. The weather has taken a turn for the worse and it’s snowing. This is good for the locals, they plan on opening the lifts in a week….hmmm everything is foggy and it’s cold, we don’t have warm enough clothes…I put on many layers.

Since we can’t see any mountains we decided to take a day trip to Thun….it’s a nice village with a castle. On the way to the train station I had to buy a hat and scarf.
Thun was nice, the castle was closed and it was too cold to walk around, we tried though. We saw a snowboarding competition…that was cool.



Back to Interlaken….hmm…we decided to go to a local spa (it was included with the hostel)….apparently the Swiss take this seriously. There’s a whole process that includes taking a breath of fresh air, drinking a beer etc…I’m not kidding…it was on the brochure. We just went into the hot tub. It smelled like eucalyptus leaves and there was a neat waterfall massager. We also did the foot tub spa. There were some other spa things, but there were so many naked men I didn’t know where to look. I’ve never seen so many naked men in one room besides in porn.

We stopped by the casino on the way back and they were filming something, so we got free bratwurst and just walked around getting lost. Apparently in the off season they use most of the casino to host events. One room had a group of people from Asia with a guest singer, another room had a Swiss band playing and some other room had a magician. Weird stuff.

Oh BTW at dinner I had a few chilies and then combined with the spa it cleared my sinuses…I think I found a cure….hahaah.

On the way back to the hostel Peter and I pet a cow….she didn’t like it too much. I like cows.

Day 2…snow, rain and Swiss cheese

Hmm the weather is the same so we decided to head to Zürich. The weather was worse there…..rain and wind….eeeekkk…..we could barely walk anywhere.
Someone told us about a big wine event at the harbor…that sounded good. On the way we saw someone roaming the streets dressed like the Easter bunny…I was jealous…he looked warm.

The wine event was awesome…..4,000 different types of wine from everywhere and you hop from boat to boat to sample the varieties. This is the biggest wine event in Switzerland and has been going on for 53 years….needless to say we had too many samples to remember and got a little toasty. My favorite wine all night was a South African white wine.

We made it to the train and headed back to Interlaken….we were pretty drenched when we returned (it’s a bit of walk from the train station). Went to dinner to warm up and I finally had my Swiss cheese fondue…yummy….

I’m still cold and I’m trying to warm up my feet.
I think Switzerland is probably beautiful in the right weather…..we’re just unlucky….we‘ll be back some day.

Tomorrow we head to Paris.



Here are some of Peter’s WTF photos from Switzerland…