Caseys Travel Tales: October 2009

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The most beautiful and ever so tidy country, Switzerland

I mentioned in a recent post that we would be re-visiting Switzerland, since it holds so much beauty and such different landscapes to what our eyes are used to back home. Well here we are yet again!

We spent a fair bit longer in this tiny country this time, and truely got to appreciate it's nature and surroundings.

Bern - Switzerland.

A street in Bern.

Canal's in Bern, the water moves very quickly!

Tiny Lauterbrunnen.

Just take a look! It's like a fairytale.

I will never forget the feeling inside that this town gave me.

Behind one of the many waterfalls in Lauterbrunnen.

This one was right out the window of our little cabin.

On our way up to Jungfrau Mountain, the top of Europe!

This young boy has seen the snow 15 times already, yet this is going to be my first time!

We made it!

When it's a clear day, no clouds, apparently you can see parts of Italy, France and Germany!

King's of the world!

My first real sighting and touch of snow!

Life's just great.

Swiss Alps and me.

Cravass!

We've definitely seen quite some sights together.

Husky's are the cutest.

The Ice Palace.

Snow makes you do crazy things.

Felt like we were on top of the world, literally!

Still around the Swiss Alps, definitely a lot more warmer here.

What a view!

Probably one of the best picnics, couldn't get a better view?

Goats are very interesting animals.

Our hike down from the mountains back to the tiny town Lauterbrunnen.

So Swiss.

The woods on the way down.

Mushies.

Crazy snow cave thing.

We think this formed from lots of the ice that fell from the top of the mountains and somehow formed this interesting cave.

We found a ski sticking out of it, wonder what happened?

The never ending trek downhill. I think this would have to be the most downhill I have ever walked in my life, I couldn't imagine what it would have been like for the people hiking up?

"Casey, just scream as loud as you can over the hills, trust me it will feel amazing!"

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Paris!

Paris I think, is just as charming, magical and beautiful as everyone says it is.

However we were very fortunate enough and lucky to have spent a whole 3 weeks in this amazing city. In these 3 weeks we stayed in an apartment of friends of ours who live and work in Paris. We really felt what it was like to actually live in this city, and as every day went by the more I wanted to stay!

Yes it's incredibly expensive, but it's just so hard to resist! Every corner you turn its either a beautiful historical building, the classic River Seine, or it's a cute patisserie which sells everything that you would dream of! Oh and not to mention he endless Vintage shops which were shockingly cheap?

What also surprised me about Paris, were, the lovely Parisians! Out of everywhere we had been so far, we found the Parisians the nicest people yet. We had been fooled!

Overall, Paris was a place I will never forget, and it's definitely a place to visit many more times throughout my lifetime.

Enjoy!

Our first sighting of the Eiffel Tower.

So original.

The Catacombs - Paris.

Throughout the 1940's some of the main cemeteries around the city were not being used properly, or should I say 'hygienically'. These cemeteries began spreading numerous diseases which effected most humans around the city. These bodies that were buried in these cemeteries were then all transferred underground a few 100 meters, all these bodies were dried out for a number of days and then all bones were stacked just how you see in this above picture.

There was just bones after bones after skulls! It took us 1/2 an hour to walk through all of this, so there was a hell of a lot!

It was very, very eerie!