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Lucerne

Our day in Lucerne is a busy one. As usual! I took an insane amount of pictures in Switzerland due to it’s beautiful nature so I’m going to use small pics and then you can click on them. Or not. I don’t care either way because I saw it in person. Booya! Ok we started by heading up Mt.Pilatus. It’s the tallest mountain in the area - we had to take a 20 minute gondola ride up to the peak.

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Once we got up to the top I ran to the nearest coffee shop because the hotel coffee was awful. You guys must think I’m crazy with the amount of coffee I consume but they are really jamming our days up and I’ve been under the weather. So…

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After (and partly due to) the double espresso, I went on a picture taking rampage. What follows can only be described as breathtaking. Both for its beauty and the insane amount of stairs I had to climb with very little oxygen in the air.

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Cute wedding chapel on the mountain. You have to walk there. HA!

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We eventually descended Mt. Pilatus and had some free time in the city of Lucerne. I ate some lunch at a place where the prices were so high I don’t even want to talk about it (Switzerland is rich) and then we rented paddle boats for a bit.

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After a nice pedal around the lake with some impromptu swimming, we met over on the docks for a more official boat cruise. My camera died shortly after I got on the boat but here a few I managed to squeeze in:

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After the boat cruise I went back to the hotel to shower and get changed for dinner. It’s a traditional Swiss Cultural Experience which (lucky for everyone) is very different than the Dutch one. The dinner featured fondue and a show. The fondue featured an incredible amount of alcohol (who knew?) and the show featured an incredible amount of accordion. We were also a little off to the side so we didn’t have the best views of the stage but they put it through their TVs also.

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The room was ridiculously hot but also hilarious so I had a good time. However, like the Dutch Cultural Experience, I would not do this again. Here are some pictures although I couldn’t get any good ones of the guy playing the broom or the two-person cow that licked people in the audience. Yeah I have no idea.

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And that concludes Day 5!

Tomorrow is extreme sports day in Austria with a brief stop in Lichtenstein to get some snacks and laugh at them. You have a puny country and no army! HA HA!

Comments

  1. AnonymousJuly 14, 2011 at 7:57 AM

    Nothing else comes to mind except BEAUTIFUL!!

    Barb & Gary

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  2. AdamJuly 14, 2011 at 1:34 PM

    Totally amazing, good photography work!

    Did someone say ski vacation?!?!? I'm in!

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  3. Dick MostlyJuly 14, 2011 at 2:09 PM

    One thing is for sure: you are definitely in Europe. Amazing stuff man. All caught up (forgot your blog address).

    P.S. Nice bokeh in the Espresso picture, you're a natural.

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