So Thursday was the last day of the travelling week. Wednesday we went to St. Gallen which is in the north-east part of Switzerland. We went to the library which is famous and actually the first time I saw it was in a movie call, "The Catcher Was a Spy." It is a great movie with Paul Rudd about a Yankee baseball catcher who was asked to be a spy for the Americans as they thought Heisenburg was going to create a nuclear bomb for the Germans in World War 2 (maybe one I can't remember). Before we got into the library we had to put on this wool slippers that were all the same size and then the doors opened to this:
We weren't allowed to take photos so this is from a internet. But it was breath taking. The paintings on the ceiling were so real and they were something to do with the bible. I couldn’t understand what the tour guide was saying but that just meant that I could look at the library. We also weren’t allowed to go upstairs and the globe is actually bigger than me. They had on display two mummies which I thought was weird because they were just in this corner of the library. „Now over here we have a book that was written in 1200 AC and now to your left we have these two mummies from Egypt that happened to come to the library a long time ago.“ There was a little girl and they had her out of the tomb and in a glass case for everyone to see. It was really weird. We then got taken down to the basement which was the „Wine Cellar“ and he gave us a tour of these books. Now they were cool looking books but the tour guide talked about them for too long. We were all hungry since it was about half past noon and we didn’t care about the book with jewels on the cover unless they were edible. Finally the tour guide finished and we had an hour and a half to go out and eat something. My friends and I went to Tibits which is a cool place with a buffet of good food and then you just put your plate on a scale and then pay for however heavy it is. The food was good but it was really cold outside and it was on and off raining. We ventured out into the cold once again and met our group outside the library. Our tour guide was there with his jacket on and took us to the outside of the church. Outside the Church wasn’t fantastic:
(Ignore my confused face. I have no idea what I‘m doing here)
But then he started to take us into the church and I also wasn’t expecting much, just hoping it would be warm, and then you get this:
It was so cool being there. Again, I didn’t understand a lot of what the tour guide said but it was still fun being there. We spent a fair bit of time there, but the good thing was, that we had been a let to sit down....and it was warm! The train ride back was about 2 hours and it was fun.
Now Thursday... we went to a place in the Italian part of Switzerland again caked Lavaux (la-vo). Now I was told that I would be hiking the whole time, and I don’t hike, just as Joey doesn’t share food. So I wasn’t really up for it but everyone I asked said it wasn’t hiking hiking, it was more walking around a very hilly town for a while. And boy where they right. The night before, Edna told me that I needed to dress warmly because it was going to be even colder than it was in St. Gallen (by the way -4 with wind. And I was really, really cold). So I wore 4 pants, 3 leggings and my sweatpants, at least 4 shirts (could be 5) and two socks plus my mitts and hat. I was still cold when I got to the train station. The train ride there wasn’t that long, about about 2 hours, and then we got to this place called Lulty which is near Lausanne. We got to Lulty at about 10:30 and we stopped around these rocks formed nicely in front of this parking lot and our teacher spent about 15 minutes explaining the rocks and how there used to be glaciers there and they brought the rocks down. I didn’t understand that but my friend Malin translated what he said. We then started to walk. And the view wasn’t bad:
Little pause: Jael, Edna and Odile from left to right
The stones at the parking lot
Some of the thousands of grape vineyards
Yael in the blue
We walked up and along the hillside which was covered in Vineyards as far as the eye can see. We walked through them, and to be honest after a while, like 2 hours, they start to get a little boring. Not to matter though, because it was fun. Other than the constant rain and coldness. Actually thought when you were walking up the hills you started to get very warm and sometimes I got so hot I took my jacket, mitts and hat off. But then when we hadn’t gone up a hill in a while I got cold again and had to put them ba m on. We stopped and had an hour lunch and then kept climbing the hill. I think we were hiking for about 5 hours and then we got to the point where the teacher said, okay, I’ve had enough, we’re going home an hour earlier. Literally no one complained. It was getting colder and it was raining pretty heavily. So we took a train back to Bern and that was it. It was actually a good day. I wasn’t expecting it to be but it was. I didn’t mind the hiking and Edna and her friend who I met my first week here I’m Switzerland said my German has improved a lot. That made me feel good.
Here are some more photos:
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