switzerland

wow. this post is loooong overdue. im sorry to all my faithful readers out there for my blogging neglegence. since my trip to switzerland i have been on-the-go non stop until now, where I now have 2.5 full weeks in granada without traveling. so with that being said, i should be able to get up my portugal blog and my san sebastian one up as well (although i have no pics from san sebastian because my camera was stolen with my packpack on the beach). anyways, dont worry about that...switzerland was absolutely gorgeous.

April 20 - 23

lauren and i took the overnight bus from granada to madrid on the 19th, and snagged are flight from madrid to geneva. from geneva we took the scenic train along lake geneva to the small city of leysin, where my friends alex, ricky, and tim are studying abroad. their school, or chateu, is at the base of a mountain and has gorgeous views of the evian mountains and the valleys below. on friday we just relaxed and had a great bbq at one of the nice overlooks by their pad.

posting up after the bbq

on friday we began our "crazy" day if you will. ricky and tim took the train into town early in the morning and rentned a car for 5 of us, because we wanted to head to interlaken for the day: the extreme sports capital of europe. we had called and reserved a time to do a 300ft canyon swing jump so we drove to interlaken, and grabbed some lunch before preparing for the jump. here's a couple nice shots of interlaken:

we met our guides at this hostal, and our crew of 6 and some other tourists all piled into a rickity van which took us up into the rocky peaks where we would encounter the canyon which we would soon plummet into:

here's alex and i all strapped in and ready to go...

i ended up going 7th or 8th of all the people, so most of the initial butterflies had left, being as the others who took the jump were still alive. this isnt a clip of me jumping, but here is a video of the same jump i did:



alright, now that you think im completely crazy, i will continue with some more pretty pics of switzerland. after the jump we grabbed some excellent thai food to go and ate it at sunset on the lake. heres lauren and i grubbin, as well as a gorgeous sunset pic:


on sunday we still had the rental car and decided to cruise around. our first stop was the city of montreaux which rests right on lake geneva. one of the prettiest parts of the city is this chateau de chillon...


after montreaux, we took the car over to france, and specifically the city of evian. we finally returned back to leysin to enjoy a final sunset. heres the view from leysin to the evian mountains in france, which we had visited earlier. oh, and our rental car as well...

im sorry, that was so brief but i just wanted to get those pics and such up. i hope you enjoyed it. any more questions, leave in the comment box. alright love ya all, and expect a nice post on portugal here soon as well! pete.