Swiss please.

Switzerland. The land of the Swiss..peoples. What can I say, it's a gloriously majestic place.

So amazing that it's about the same area as Vancouver Island but has a population of about 5 million people. Crazy. Throw in all them mighty mountains, amazing wiews, spectacularily clear, blue water and you've got yourself quite a place. We stayed with an extremely nice girl named Martina who was hosted by one of my school friends a couple of years ago. She literally gave us run of the place. She gave us a key and was away for the weekend, which kinda sucked because it would have been nice to hang out with her, but never the less, we had a great time. On Saturday me and Liz celebrated Thanksgiving. We bought the tiniest chicken ever and cooked it up with some potatoes corn and carrots. We also had some apple pie for dessert, it was fantastic.

We used Martina's house kind of as home base for Switzerland. She lived just north of Basel and seeing as Switzerland is so small, we saw a fair bit of it in the 4 or 5 days we were there.

The first day there we went to a little touristy town called Interlaken. It was really beautiful. The water in the river was aquamarine blue and ice cold to the touch. So pretty. We didn't go up the little trolly up the mountain because it was almost 20 euros..too much for us. So we just walked around and looked at a whoooole lot of touristy, over priced trinkets.

The next day we went to Bern. I was feeling a bit under the weather so we took it easy and just walked around town, and saw a tragic sight. You see, each city has an animal, a mascot if you will, and Bern's animal is a bear. They had a literal pit with a sad looking bear in it..all he had were some concrete blocks with little trees growing out of them and a rectangular pool in the middle..poor little bear..but he was cute.

Next day was our thanksgiving feast of sorts, half that day was spent in Basel roaming the streets, then of course home to cook.

The next, and final, day of our journey was our most toursty type day in Switzerland, we went to see the Matterhorn. Wow. It was really cool. We actually technically didn't get that close because we, again, are cheap scates. We went to Zermatt and saw the Matterhorn from a distance and walked towards it for a while..it was really expensive to go up on a cable car..something like 100 euros..ridiculous. So no. We used the zoom function on our cameras to make it look like we were close..oh well. I still loved it.

The next day we bagan our crazy 2 day travel to Greece. Woke up at 4:45am. Caught a train to Milan, it was 45 minutes late, which screwed up our plans to catch the correct train to get to the ferry on time for Greece. Got on a train to Ancona where the ferry port is. Got kicked off that train in Bologne for not having a reservation. Got a train fron Bologne to Ancona. Found a random Hostel. Stayed the night. Hopped on our 22 hour long ferry ride to Greece. Stayed in extreme comfort throught the ferry ride. Arrived the next morning in Patras Greece. Took some random trains, and now finally after 2 days of travel are here in Greece only to leave for Santorini tomarrow. I can't wait!! It's teriffically warm here and I'm so excited to swim in the Ocean of a Greek island. Sounds like paradise to me.

Well, best be off! Wishing everyone good times in good ol' Vico and surrounding areas.