DAY 6….. We are in Switzerland!

DAY 7 (03 Oct 07, WED) : LUCERNE - ENGELBERT - MT TITLIS - LUCERN

I am now lying on the bed in hotel Europe Lucerne while Nick is enjoying his red wine and live telecast of champion league between Valencia and Chelsea. Just finish dinner in our room. Nice roasted chicken from Migros.

 

Switzerland is a beautiful place! The view from the coach into Switzerland is picturesque! I am overwhelmed by the alpine houses! Every single house is unique in its design and they are built on different level on the mountain. There are a lot of cows! I love the sight of mountain water running on the little stone river just in front of every house!

 

Our hotel is situated just next to Lake Lucerne. It’s a very nice lake filled with swans and “yuan yang”! The evening walk towards the wooden chapel Bridge is relaxing…. Unconsciously, the stress level is disappearing…. The pace of footstep amazing slow down.

 

Today we went to Mt Titlis. It is 10,000 feet above sea level! I thought its gonna to be freezing cold! Hahaha… Fully equipped ourselves with thermal wear. Nick say we very KS to wear so many layers! I tell him, wait till he get up to the ice mountain!...Hahahah… It was cable car ride followed by a mass big cable car and finally the Totair. It is a revolving cable car but only the base revolved. The window is stationary….hahahha…we all thought the entire big cable car will revolve.

 

It is quiet cold up on the mountain. The view is indescribable! This is the first time both is us touch snow, or rather ice cos it really hard ice… we had fun playing on the snow mountain. We also took the open top sky rider! It was an awesome view! No words can describe that kind of top on the mountain view!!!

 

 

 

I had always wanted to a snow angel but these are ice and not fluffy snow…Hahaha… in the end, I lye on the ice…. Hahaha… compensate for not able to do a snow angel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was really cold so we went into the self serve restaurant to eat the famous sausage and goulash soup. It’s tasty! The pork chop is delicious too! Haven been eating pork since in Italy… We visited the glacier walk and saw some ang mo kids! hahhaa… we bought a nice cow bell as souvenir too! Haha…. For our new home!

 

Back to the city in Lucerne, after the changing parade into lighter clothing, we went to the shopping area. Everyone is busying looking at watches! It the birth place for watches and Bucherer is the one who make rolex famous. About 80% of our group mate bought a branded watch, rolex, patek phillip, tag heguer, omega!!! There are a lot of China tourists too… they buy watches as if it from pasar malang!!!! Buy until quarrel with their tour guide and the sales people in the shop. Heard from our fellow tour mate got china ppl shout at the sales people saying that “I am here to spend $$$$”….. damm jia liat….. no wonder the ang mo see us Asian like shit and low class!

 

Nick wanted to get their swiss made B Swiss but he is in dilemma to buy or not to buy. We left the rolex building and have tea break in this Tea Room café as recommended by the tour guide. The raspberry tart is marvelous! A cake lover like me sure enjoys dessert like this! I could tell that Nick is still thinking about the watches. I thought maybe he should get a decent piece since we are in Switzerland. We came to this mini shopping mall which looks like our Isetan. Tissot caught my eyes, it’s a swiss made brand and some of the design look good. I told the salesger we wanted to see this particular piece but she asked us to wait. I thought they are so service oriented cos she is serving another customer in front of us. I am wrong! After her customer left, I signal her the second time, she asked us to wait and there she was packing her paper box and browsing the catalogue! Damm it!!!! She practically ignored us! It’s a over 700 sgd watch I want to see, 2 pieces is near 2K liao… ok maybe its peanuts to them! So angry! We left the place and come to this swiss brand fashion shop. I took fancy on this top which is the last piece on the mannequin. But the sales ger simply refuse to take down that piece for me! We left the place with zero purchase also.

 

I did manage to get a nice casual jacket in a shop. There are in fact a lot of nice store in Lucerne but the operating hours is too short! Too little time to shop. We decided that if we cannot find a nice watch, maybe we should get a nice cuckoo clock for our new home. Its all handmade and a signature of German material assemble in Swiss! We could’nt find any nice piece so far but we will still continue our search tomorrow in Interlaken!