Thursday, April 12, 2007

2nd Weekend - Switzerland

Today came back early to hotel and decided to do some write up on my 2nd weekend trip to Switzerland. Since it was a long weekend (good friday + easther holiday), we decided to drive to Switzerland... We heard that this is a wonderful place to visit and once we reached, we really do believe it.

First we went to the Rheinfall (near to the border between Germany and Switzerland) to see a waterfall. I only saw this kind of nice waterfalls in the postcards... but now, I see it with my own eyes.

Next, we headed to Lake Lucerne. This is a small town around a lake which has very very nice sceneries. You will feel extremely comfortable being at this place. We hang around the city area... and was quite unlucky cause we reached city around 3+pm and the shops closes at 4+... Could not really shop... Anyhow, things were quite expensive over here.. and food as well.

The next day, we drove to Interlaken... a smaller town in Switz. Staying there, you will feel so healthy and relaxing. wow, how I wished my retired life is at this place... day dreaming ;)

Next, head to Zurich... a big city. Well, just hang around here 'window shopping' as all the shops were closed, we just look from the windows. However, restaurants were open at night. Lots of people were out for dinner.

The next destination was Stein and Rhein. Here, the buildings were painted with images. I don't know if the images represent some historic info or not :P But I would say this is a nice place, beautiful. And by the way, lost of cafe/restaurant here... The european likes to sit under the sun and have a cup of espresso. My colleague told me that the colmar tropicale in malaysia tries to imitate this place.

That's all for Switz trip. Overall, nice sceneries and very relaxing trip. However, the cost of livin in this country is quite high. So, food etc were kinda expensive for us... Check out the photos...


Switzerland



2 comments:

~ mrs lam ~ said...

aiyah... i so jealous of u ck.... can go travel switzerland... makes me really wanna plan a trip there after seeing the beautiful pics... i am sure mr ha & u can really plan next time to retire there....

ckchiam said...

mrs lam - surely you will have a change to be there and it is really a peaceful place to stay for the retirement life.