Saw this from the train, sweetness.

Just got on a train from Geneva to Lyon heading to the land of croissants and grilled cheese.  Just had a nice lunch,  aka the second half of last nights dinner.  No arrangements for a place to stay yet but hopefully it will go smoothly…we shall see.

A nice tour of Zurichs finest.

This is how we rationalized the expensive hotel.  A hobo dinner and a sizeable blow to morale.

The next day neima and I bid farewell to my family and without really any planning decided we should get to the train station and see if we could make it to France.  What we found was no good.  Very expensive two day train rides were not very appealing so we got to thinking…Where could we go on the way to France that would be small and cheap…Zurich of course!  Not our wisest decision.  We got in fairly late and had no place to stay.  We wandered a weird deserted wing of the train station thinking it was the main part which made us a bit uneasy for a while.  Eventually we stumbled across the actual train center and started looking for an overnight train.  We found one to Toulouse but the lady at the desk told us the wrong conversion so it sounded way too expensive.  We decided to abandon hope for a night train and asked for the cheapest hotel.  We ended up at Valhalla, I don’t know who considers that much money cheap bit it must be nice…The price made me contemplate not sleeping and just wandering the town all night but my experience of doing that a few years ago in Italy convinced me not to.

That was just last night we stayed there and we are now on a strict diet of bread with bread sammiches to recoup our fundage.  I’m currently on a train from Zurich to Lyon which was about equivalent to the cost of our lovely motel.  Damn you Switzerland.  It doesn’t help that they don’t use the euro and our stay was too short to warrant using the atm, so we were basically helpless to buy water or food at most places.  I would put Switzerland down as the trips first costly mistake, although I had planned on one or two of those to be inevitable.  It is a very beautiful country, but ddddaaaannnnnggggg.

A few videos showing the progression of the evening…

I think I prosted a bit too hard…

We decided we wanted a nice quiet relaxing day and were told about a small festival being held in Munich.  We decided to investigate only to find there had been a ghastly mistake.  Unfortunately we were committed at that point and surrendered to drinking large stein of beer, eating roasted ox, and dancing on tables while pretending to know German songs.  The day started off slightly subdued but a few steins in and everybody was best friends.  Couple that with the bavarian music ensemble and you have yourself a tea party. 

Better than the rest.  This is not a test.  Go on a quest to find the chest.  I do not mean to be a pest, lest you eat zest, you’ll find me in the nest.  Just kidding, more like Budapest….sleep deprivation is cereal busyness.

FOUNTAIIIINNNN!

Outside of schwangau…