Day 10 - Florence to Lucerne (Switzerland).Author: jawapro
Date: Fri 30/01/2009 05:24 PM
I didn’t sleep very well last night. Not sure if that’s because I was getting sick, or not - but I kept waking up.
Still - I got a lot more sleep than most of the rest of the bus.
When we left the hotel this morning, half the bus was hung over - and half the remainder were still drunk.
Before long - most of the bus was asleep.
Today’s drive took us out of Italy past Lake Como, and into lovely Switzerland!
No wonder people make model railways of Switzerland. It’s gorgeous, and there are lots of trains.
During a rare photo stop - Cindy (our tour guide) had a snowball fight with on of the passengers.
The war ended when the girl caught Cindy (the smaller of the two), picked her up, and dumped her straight into the snow bank.
There was also another heated skirmish between Derrick (our bus driver) and one of the Yankee girls - but I didn’t get any photos of that one. Derrick got hit by a snow ball, and the girl got buried in a snow drift. Not a good person to pick a fight with - our Derrick.
After a lot more driving, and some sleeping (on Emma’s part) we arrived at the beautiful town of Lucerne. Looks great - but is very cold.
By the way - I’m coming down with a cold I think. Been sniffling all day and rather miserable. Not as bad as the hung over people who were barfing at the back of the bus, but still not good. Hopefully it will get better quickly.
Switzerland is famous for a few things, especially Knives, Watches, and Chocolate. I bought myself a Swiss Army Knife (how could you not?), and then bought another one.
Tonight’s overnight stop was in Lucerne. There was a walking tour tonight to see it by night (would have been very pretty) but as Emma was dead tired still, and I’m crook - we decided to give it a miss.
The Hotel for tonight is pretty cool.
We’re staying in the old Jail.
Nothing fancy - but very cool for a change.
Lets just hope there’s not a fire - because we ain’t getting out the windows.
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