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No Comments The first weekend ~ Le premier weekend
The first day in Switzerland, we got settled in and just chilled the whole day after an exhausting week. Our new housemate is really nice and later in the afternoon we all went down to the waterfront (Ouchy-Lausanne) to soak up some rays and enjoy the atmosphere. Finally some summer after England. It’s about 25-30c. Perfect.
On Sunday we went to Gstaad, in the German canton of Switzerland, but only about an hour’s drive away. It’s a hotspot for the rich – I think almost every other car we went past was a Ferrari or Lamborghini. The shops in town are all designer – Cartier, Louis Vuitton, Ralph Lauren etc. And the restaurants looked pricey too. But we made the most of the weather & nature, and brought a picnic with us, so we had a great day without spending much at all : )
We saw some incredible views on the way. I can’t get over how beautiful it is here. I’ve been a few times before but it still hits me every time. The mountains, valleys, vineyards, lakes, wildflowers, old buildings, cute chalets. I love it. We saw some gorgeous waterfalls too and had to get out and explore.
I thought I better at least try and use some of my German (rather rubbish school-days German last learnt at age 13), and went into a cafe to buy an apple tart. But I ended up making an idiot out of myself by slipping into a weird Dutch-German mix and asking for ‘een appel tart bitte’, ‘dank u wel’. Got a very weird look, unsurprisingly :p Guess I better try and brush up on my German for our future trips!
We wanted to get a cable car up a mountain to get some even better views, and stopped at a very cool-looking one called glacier 3000 (as in it takes you to the top of a 3000 metre snow-capped mountain). But at £50 each, the price was a steep as the mountain…
So we gave it a miss and found another, much cheaper cable car in Gstaad itself. Not as cool, but still very nice:
