28th June, the day we set off for Bern! =)
arrived safely! began our torturous journey of dragging our luggages to the pension hotel haha. i seriously swear i'll never ever bring so much stuff on a holiday next time.
beautiful, well kept city of bern! it's my second time here, and everything looks the same though! haha it's really a well preserved old town with cobbled streets and all. =) cars and pedestrians share the same road!
set off to Thun, the town with an amazing lake and swiss alps peeking out behind the lake!
our initial plan was to go up the swiss alps and well, ski around or something, but we found out that the train tickets up were too expensive so we gave up going up in the end. anyway, the woman at the ticket counter advised us not to go during summer anyway, cos there'll be fogs everywhere and we won't be able to get a good view of everything. thus we moved to plan B!
TONS of people sun tanning, lounging, lying around, and there's part of the swiss alps behind =)
we look really out of place here cos everyone's in bikinis or less and we were dressed to go up the alps -_- horror of all horrors. plus, that day was quite hot too =(
one more desktop-wallpaper-worthy photo
can't capture the awe of the lake with just one shot, but it's really breath-taking. =)
saw this guy with all his bodily possessions on him. i felt tired looking at him even. haha
welcome to the land of peace!
jing the future soccer star :D
acting emo, kinda hard haha
what a nice colour
i forgot what were we doing haha
strawberry house that sells strawberries :D
ahh such a lovely house!
superb views =D
time for some soccer!
unbelievable prices for macs
having a nice dinner (one of the rare times we splurged hee hee)
my rosti with bacon and ham and egg and cheese! hahaha
scarily sinful but delicious nevertheless =)
fountains everywhere!
unforgettable night scenery
next day... we went to walk around the city
soccer fever's on!
they really have pretty rivers haha
roar! grizzly bears on the move!
i feel quite safe on top taking its picture
okay, maybe not that safe haha
cool decorations! =D so artistic
free drinking water everywhere
the skies i love :)
didn't go in though, cos we find it rather commercialized
candies!
famous choc shop
$2.70 SGD to enter the washroom???!!!! are you kidding me!!!
my all new watch - only $1.30 SGD heh. and spain won euro 2008!
on our way to paris!!!!!
land ho! it's a beautiful train station =)
i can almost feel the 19th century paris
beside the louvre
street along the louvre
inner courtyard of louvre
some gate haha
the famous pyramid!
=D
trying to show that the sun's still glaring at us at 8pm
introducing the mesmerizing seine river :)
people on boat rides
another picture perfect moment!
hello eiffel!! that's my first view of it
yvonnee! the sky's pretty amazing huh? =) it looks photoshopped haha!
heh cool view eh? =)
went for the seine river boat ride at 10pm, so we could catch the lighting up of eiffel at 11 =)
getting dark...
=)
feels great floating along the river, listening to old parisian songs over the headphones
the bridges look totally different at night
okay, this is a lonnnggg story. i was on the boat happily feeling at ease with myself when a bunch of kiddos beside me started making a din and i was quite irritated. then two boys were bullying their sister, this little girl, and i was a bit bu shuang so i sorta shouted into the river something along the lines of, "can't they shut up?" and ended up scaring this little girl instead. =/ so she sorta got into a sad mood and i, feeling guilty, decided to make friends with her and gave her chocs. haha so all was well in the end, and i had a new friend! =D although we can't understand each other (she's french and the only french word i know is merci, and i don't say it properly too grah), we had fun for the last leg of the journey, taking pictures together =D
so here's to my little friend, thanks for making my seine boat trip a memorable one! haha
my new found friend helped us take this photo heh
Eiffel turns blue!!
=D that's my writeup about my stay in bern and the first day in paris! =D will continue my updates real soon yeah!
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