Interlaken

Since I'm waiting here for my laundry to finish (hopefully for the last time here) and I have nothing to do for the next couple of hours, I might as well post write a blog post. I'm pretty excited about this weekend, except the timings really suck. I have to take a bus from downtown Metz at 1:35 AM and wait at Frankfurt-Hahn airport for like 4 hours until our flight leaves at 10 AM. But other than that, it should be a really cool weekend in Croatia. We're planning on renting a car and driving to some cool places.

Last weekend, I went to Interlaken. It is a really pretty place. The name Interlaken roughly translates to between lakes, and that's because the city lies between two lakes. It was really fun - we met a bunch of people the US and a guy from Switzerland. I had some Swiss chocolate and some fresh Swiss cheese, both of which were really good. The highlight of the weekend was probably paragliding. It was a really cool experience, but it wasn't at all what I was expecting. It was literally like you were just floating in mid-air, relaxing in the sky, above an amazing view, for 15-20 minutes. If I ever come here again though, I'm pretty sure I want to go canyoning. And maybe, just maybe, I will go skydiving one day. We also went hiking through the mountains, but we didn't have enough time to get to a real hiking part, so it was more like a leisurely stroll with, of course, really good scenery. See for yourself below.

Oh, and the Swiss Franc is a really weird currency.