It was a last minute decision to go with yeanching and ruili to Germany last weekend, but we had no regrets! Albeit a tiring trip, it was a really great one. The weather was good, and the scenery was really nice too. In 2 days, we took a total of 13 trains....We visited the oldest-ruined castle at Hiedelberg which was really nice, walked on the bridge, walked down the longest pedestrain street for 4 times, and stayed in a hostel for our very 1st time.
It's the 1st time we crossed the border of switzerland, and it's interesting to see how the cultures differ between switzerland and germany. Funnily, dear mentioned that switzerland has everything germany has, but germany doesn't. Germany is more laid-back in general, and the people are slightly less cultured, but very much more friendlier. Germany is huge though, and it seemed flatter than switzerland, probably coz i only visited 2 places. Anyhow, the hostel we stayed in wasn't too bad. We paid 20 euros per person for a night, and 4 of us stayed in a room with no attached toilet. Just outside our room, there are 6 more bunks which we had to cross everytime we wanna leave the room to go to the toilet. We met those 6 people, and they came from all over the place...some from germany, some from russia etc. And it was an eye-opener for me, cos they were drinking tequilla shots, and the girls were dancing quite sexually with the guys. They invited and kept encouraging us to drink with them, but dear and i can't hold liquour and we don't want to get drunk...so we just refused. But yeanching and ruili had 1/2 shots, they said it was good though hehe.
That night, we went out to the streets, and had an ice-cream (huge one) for only 1 euro! cheap and good stuff! We chatted that night in our room, about what we think of each other in terms of personality, and it was interesting.... a time of discovering ourselves haha. On sunday, we left for Titisee to visit Germany's black forest. It was really beautiful. For the 1st time in our lives, we saw the iconic glacier lake...a lake totally frozen, which we kept throwing stones on it to see if it cracks. It's a cute sight seeing ducks and birds standing on the froken ice. We went up the mountain and had a top-down view of the blackforest, and there was a ski areana there too, where there was an igloo. It is so cool seeing people skiing and snowboarding so skillfully...it always seemed so easy when we see them do it.
Travelling is not worry-free. We were on the top of the mountain, and because we wanted to take pictures, we walked down, planning to head for another bus-stop to get back. But, as we continued walking, we realised the bus doesn't go to that bus-stop, and we were getting worried, cos we had to catch a train in 1 hour's time or we'll have to get back to switzerland pretty late. Thankfully, we flagged another bus, where the driver kindly took us to the right bus-stop. haha. On the way back, we had to rush for 2 trains, where we had to run to another platform within 3 minutes. We ran for our lives, and it was so funny, all of us kept laughing as we ran. It was dead tiring, and we panted like never before. Thank God, we caught all the trains and got back safely. Wow, i've seriously never changed trains so many times within such a short time span before.
This saturday, dear and i will be going for the renowed glacier express train in switzerland from Chur to Zermatt. The train ride will last for about 5-6 hours, passing through the swiss alps. Hopefully, the weather will be nice, and we'll enjoy ourselves! :)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment