Retrospective: First days in Lausanne

After huffing and puffing outside our guest house, I entered the lobby area. It was really neat! What wasn't was the lady at the reception informing us that our dorm was in the second floor and there was no lift! "Wtf!!!Is this some endurance test or what?"



I was so dead when we reached the dorm! After resting for some time, I made way for the huge suitcases in the corner of the room (the dorm was really small). There was a nice french window overlooking the town of lausanne. This was quite a nice view as I soon found out.



Another funny thing about this guest house we had booked was that it was right next to the railway tracks that run out from the railway station. Trains ran past our abode in Swiss time! Every 7 minutes(seconds are excused).

After all this, we were so hungry! Went to the station and found a restaurant that looked decent. Looked at the menu. 15 francs for medium sized pizza and our indian heads were churning out currency conversion numbers. After a good meal and finding out the hard way that when you ask for water, you need to cough up 5 CHF, we were heading back to our dorm to check out the kitchen. No surprises!

The kitchen was speckless. A nice huge fridge, a big dining table and a neat counter.
"Nice place to learn cooking!", I thought to myself. My cooking knowledge increased by leaps and bounds here. My first puliogere happened. Gawd! Did it taste like the best lunch buffet at Mainland China!;)



The lobby of the guest house was really well done! A hot cup of coffee in the cold, a view of gentle drizzle outside and the splendid mix of colors of autumn (More of this was in store!) and life was good!



It was really depressing a lot of times to not have people around. The gloomy weather made it worse sometimes. It is something else to be on vacation in Switzerland! The downside of not being a tourist.

Retrospective: Day 1 in Suisse

I haven't blogged for a while now. The last time I did was moments before I turned 23. So much has happened in the time between then and now! Phew...It's like catching up with a long-lost friend.
Hmm...I had to decide...between continuing on a mundane software job versus hitting the road again. Only if I had a convincing reason to...wait! "Higher" education! That's it!

September 1st 2008:
Landed in Geneva (exactly 2 months ago!) on a busy monday morning only that I had to get used to different busy standards across continents. I vividly remember approaching the geneva airport. It was so beautiful. Right above Lake Geneva with an aerial view of the city. Wished she were next to me!
After collecting my baggage at the airport, I was looking for a push carraige. Saw a line of carraiges locked to one another. Was seeing how I could unlock it. Moolah! 2 CHF. My friend and I went to the ticket counter to board the train to Lausanne. The guy at the ticket counter spoke zilch english. "I am so fucking screwed!", I thought.

After being swindled for the 2 CHF for carraiges(another side story), we got into the train. After a long journey and loading our baggages into an empty carraige, we were tired. The train cheered us up a little.



The beautiful landscapes of swiss country side was more than welcoming. With a D80 by my side, I went berserk!



Kao(My friend) was feeling left out. Lake by my right and pastures to my left. Wish I had two cameras.



After a totally enjoyable train ride (this was just a beginning!) we landed at the Lausanne railway station. Some enquiries and we set on foot to our guest house with push carts carrying luggage. Lausanne hosts the International Olympic Committee and yapped about it as we moved out.


Phew! Reaching the guest house was an arduous trek during the last stretch. I muttered a fuck and set off without stopping and stood still for 10 minutes afterward. "Lausanne Guest House baby!"



TBC...