Today, in itself, was also exhausting, resulting in my lethargic behavior. We were supposed to have a train from Geneva to Milan and then a train from Milan to Florence. Instead we got, problems with one train, took another to some random location that I can't remember but it went something like Donderossola , waited for an hour, got on the right train to Milan. Obviously missed our connection. Took the next train to Florence without seat assignments, pissed off a whole bunch of Italians for sitting in their seats when we were told Cars 6-11 were open seating. Arrive 1.5 hours late to Florence where it was pouring and trudged through the rain for our fifteen minute walk back to our apartments... Loaded down with a duffel on our backs, our satchels, and a H&M bag stuffed with souvenirs.
BLEH.
Nevertheless, after this fall break, I feel like a totally new person. I'm refreshed. I'm exhausted. I don't know what to think of the past week because I don't think I've processed all of it. The amazing churches, the unique museums, the incredible food, the beautiful countries. What I experienced and what I learned was more than I thought I would, to be honest. I've been blown away. And it's weird to think that 9 am tomorrow morning I'll be sitting in class again. The past 11 days seemed like my life for a bit, and nothing else really existed, but the next fun thing we were doing, or the next city, or the next train, or the next hostel.
To attempt to blog about this is going to be intense. However, after almost losing 1200 pictures on my camera, only to find out that I have them, but can't look at them or put them on my computer until Christmas break, for now, blogging will be the only thing I have to remember. and Catherine. Today she spent 20 minutes reminding me what our room in the hostel in Vienna looked like, while I spent part of dinner last night describing to her a restaurant we went to in Munich. 6 cities, 11 days, countless adventures....things are blurry.
For now, or rather this blog, I'm going to Sparknote the entire trip, and it won't make any sense to you. Using this, I will then over the next I don't really know how long, I'll detail each city, along with some random stories, thoughts, and ideas about the countries we visited.
So without further ado:
Train Florence to Vienna: Overnight. Jamie and co. The Fighting Couple. "Man, I can't move my four bags." The Singing Woman. Sliding Chairs. Getting checked like five times.
Vienna Day 1
Hostel Do Step Inn
Europa
Stephansdom
Jesuitenkirche
Haus der Musik
Albertina
Schatzkammer (in 30 minutes)
Siebensternbrau
Check in by 9 pm
Runnnn
The Social Network
Vienna Day 2
Schonbrunn "Are we good with the castle?"
Catherine's building(majolikahaus)/rings/starbucks!
MAK
Kleine's Cafe
Leopold Museum
Train to Munich, View of Salzburg, got in at 10:30, Euro Youth Hostel ("You guys want something from Subway?")
Munich Day 1, rainy
Wimmer
The Pinakothek museums (Pinakothek der Moderne and Alte Pinakothek)
Marienplatz, pics along the way
Opatija
Spielzeugmuseum
Peterskirche
Peterskirche Tower to watched the clock on Rathaus at 5 pm.
Movies--> fail
Famous Beer Hall Hop: Hofbrauhaus and Weisses Brauhaus, Munchner Bier Brotzeitstuberl fail.
"What's your name I wanna add you on Facebook." ....
Munich Day 2
Deutsches Museum "Ello!"
Prinz Myshkin, wasabi hummus, oh my goodness, and creme brulee!
Residenz, Schatzkammer and theater
Theatinerkirche, "and it was allll yellow..."
Asamkirhce, fail
Cafe Glockenspiel, shrimp!
"There's no way Munich has the bones of St. John the Baptist."
Overnight train to Berlin, traveling with a whole bunch of spanish teens who were drinking on an overnight train, bizarre., reclining seats
Berlin Day 1
St. Christopher's Berlin, great reception in bar
Postdamer Platz (Catherine's semester project)
Kunstgewerbemuseum
Gemaldegalerie
Cara's
Topography of Terror
Checkpoint Charlie
Judisches Museum
Nikolaiviertel
Alexanderplatz
Fernsehturm, chingchangchong, "I don't mean to down your needle with an olive on it..."
ugly underground
Berlin Day 2
Brandenburg Gate
Reichstag
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and exhibit
Zeughaus/Deutsches Historisches Museum/1990
Bebelplatz
Berliner Dom
Berlin Wall Memorial
S-Bahn Exhibit (Nordbahnhof station)
Dolores!!!!!
Overnight Train Berlin to Hannover and then Hannover to Zurich, a nice man helped me with my duffle, girl let Catherine and I sit tgoether
Zurich Day.
City Backpacker hostel, tiny, sweet reception, spiral staircase, located on famous street of Niederdorfstrasse, first place to charge us for sheets and towels...lame
Grossmunster/Zwingli
Fraumunster/Chagall stained glass
St Peter Kirche
Manora, oh my goodness
Spungli
James Joyce Museum...tolstoy?
Kunsthaus
where Lenin lived, Spiegelgasse 14, in 1917
check in, gah where are the plugs???
Adler's Swiss Churchi, reservation for 9:30
Starbucks, H&M, hostel, plan rest of trip
Swiss Churchi
Train Zurich to Bern, my first double decker train and we were on top!
Bern Day.
hostel: Bern Backpacker's/Hotel Glocke
"You cannot come back for your bags noon to three."
nice cafe
Fountains: Ogre eating a baby
Munster, closed
oh my goodness the view...
Barengraben "Did you know that that skit was actually about bears? Is he tall? Is he hefty? Is he comin back?"
Zentrum Paul Klee, off the map ugh, under 16, Seven Deadly Sins and Form, line and color
tram back, yikes....
Tibits!
Kunstmuseum (rest of seven sins)
Einstein Haus
found a movie theater
checked in
Le Lotscheberg, wine and cheese "Americans always ask for tap water." Byebye!
H&M, as usual
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Moral Hazard! An Intermission, whaaa. subtitles in german and french. mentioning Switzerland. "I'm in love with Carey Mulligan. When she hurts, I hurt."
Train Bern to Geneva. Lausanne. Annoying lady in my seat talks to people across aisle.
Geneva Day 1.
Hostel: City Hostel Geneva. We'll be back in ten minutes.
Free travel pass!
Loooossssttttt.
Musee International de la Croix-Rouge (Red Cross Museum)
United Nations, dang.
across lake, Le Pain Quotidien (hehe)
Old town
Musee Internationale de la Reforme
Cathedrale St-Pierre, "it was an accident!"
Wall of Reformation. Park. Chess.
Rally.
Checked in
Au Petit Chalet....total fail... thanks memory card
"Have a nice day!"
frantically getting pictures online.
Geneva Day 2
Changed clocks
brunch at Le Pain Quotidien? (oh yeah, right!)
Carouge, off the map
brunch at Wolfisberg...and chocolate.
Musee d'Art et d'Historie
Church steps
Cathedrale St-Pierre North and South tower
Maccabees chapel
Archaeological place under Cathedrale
Donkeys!
Lake Geneva
Dinner at La Saviese? no
Tea Room, the devil.
Dinner at La Saviese? no
Dinner at La Saviese? Yes! 6:30, make a reservation!
Lake Geneva
La Saviese! let's order everything and play bangkillmarry for 1.5 hours.
And then the adventure home is described above.
Wow, that was exhausting in itself. gah.
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