Day 16 – Switzerland

Today we spent our full day in Lucerne, Switzerland. Unfortunately for us the beautiful weather of the previous day turned to crap and ruined most of our plans.

Oh before I keep going – our hotel here is ridiculous! It is a former jail. Literally…a jail. We are in a tiny room (cell) with a bunk bed and a single bed. We can’t both get out of bed at the same time or we head butt. There’s also no lift and we are on the 3rd floor. It is meant to be a “feature hotel” but at this point all I want is a room with a decent bed, enough space to move around in and some damn wifi! Lol.

This morning we were meant to go up Mt Pilatus on the cable cars but it was too windy. Then it was meant to be the train up to the top of the mountain but the tour guide said the view was terrible today so we weren’t going to bother. I’ll be honest, I was pissed off. Even with a crap view from fog and rain the train would have been awesome. We suggested to her later we wanted to risk it and we’re prepared to lose our money to fog but she said nope and that we wouldn’t have enough time.

Instead we went swiss watch shopping (I bought a really nice one) and wandering. Lucerne is tiny, there isn’t much to see. We looked at the lion monument, the water tower and the chapel bridge.

We went to lunch at a “genuine Swiss restaurant” where they played weird traditional instruments, dressed up like cows (yes…cows) and fed us very odd food. It was expensive. Everything here is! After this was more wandering and then we had a happy meal at maccas (which cost the equivalent to $10 AUD) and went on a cruise around Lake Lucerne. Even with the rain and fog the mountains looked awesome from the boat.

Feeling a little let down by Switzerland we ended the night with dinner at an English pub and a few drinks at an Irish pub.

I came back to the room to discover my travel adaptor had fused and wasn’t working, my roaming sim had buggered up AGAIN and with a 12hr bus trip looming the next day when we head to Paris. All in all, it wasn’t the best day of the trip but I guess days like that make the other days even better.