Switzerland

Our fist stop in Switzerland was Zurich, which by the way is now up there with one of our favourite cities in the world. What was not to like, super trendy cafes and clothes shops lined the coble stone streets, amazing old architecture, a river that you can swim in and all under some mountains.....oh you could smell the dirty money.

One of the main reasons we went to Switzerland was to see Lee's mate Dom (www.mouldyheads.com) before he packed up and left to work with a big time photographer, Horst Diekgerdes in Paris. We happened to arrive smack bang on Doms big 3-0. So off we went to have an indian feast with Dom's friends and then onto to the pub for some more celebrating (thanks again for a great night everyone).

After a tough start the next day, we dragged our sore heads and sorry asses out to explore Zurich. We walked along the river, umbrella in toe, went on the dodgems at the carnival and saw all those sneaky Swiss banks. Later that night Dom took us for a a traditional Swiss meal in the original Swiss artillery room where we ate a yummy mushroom chicken thing, underneath William Tell's actual bow and arrow on the wall....COOL! A big thanks to Dom for having time to have a beer or 2 in Zurich!!!

Next stop....The Swiss Alps. We jumped on a train from Zurich and even the train ride left us staring to the sky and saying 'ooohhhh aaahhhh' at the far away mountains. So you can only imagine what we did when we arrived in our little village, Grindelwald, under those snow capped mountains.

The first day we arrived we got up at the crack of sparrows and headed for the highest train station in Europe 'Top of Europe'. Once we were there we could see as far as the eye could see - and also there was snow EVERYWHERE!!!

After a look out stop we ran down to the snow freezing our butts off (we packed for summer not snow) and had a snow ball right. After the fight we calmed down and had a picnic lunch on the snow overlooking a huge snow filled valley.

The next day we went on a hike through one of the mountains above Grindelwald. With wild flowers everywhere, patches of snow and streams you could drink from. The first words Brooke said when we got up was 'Yo-de-lah-he-heeee'.

We loved Switzerland and the best way to describe it was it looked just like a swiss chocolate wrapper.mmmmmmmmmmmmmm chocolate.