The Lost Journal #1: Lausanne, Switzerland

"A journey is best mesured in friends, rather than miles". - Tim Cahill

Date: 28/10/2012Location: Lausanne, Switzerland

Brothers forever -Amir, Arif, Afiq, Syahmie-

‘Do you want to build a snowman?’ said Syahmie, as he landed himself on a thick blanket of white snow in the middle of nowhere. Here it was heavy snow. We did snow angels and formed snowballs.

This was the second time we experienced snow, and never in our minds had we thought that we could get enough of it. The first time was much more exciting; as we were travelling on the French highway to Switzerland at night, snowflakes started to rain upon our windshield and Amir quickly searched for the nearest RnR. As soon as we stopped, we pushed ourselves out of the car to play with snow. And it was one of the most memorable, and also coldest, moment in my life. The first snow was always the best feeling.

Playing snow for the first time ever.

Back to Lausanne, I felt the absolute intense as the gust of wind blew right through me, with drops of heavy snow emanating from the clouds, falling softly onto my face and hair. There was no one around, apparently no one was crazy enough to go out in such a weather, so we decided to dance all around the snow like there's no tomorrow.

When it got too cold, we rushed back inside our car and continued exploring. As the snow got thicker, we realized that we can no longer push through without fixing chains on our front tyres. So, in the middle of nowhere, with not a single person seen, we stopped the car and fixed the chains.

Fixing chains

Making sure chains are well-fixed 

Lausanne is a known as the olympic capital in Switzerland, people here speak French as it is closer to the french border. It is a city located not far from Geneva. The four national languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian and Romansh. From what I've heard, not everyone in Switzeland knows all four of these languages, but they have English as an intermediate language.

This lake on this photo below is Lac Léman (Leman Lake) which stretches from Lausanne to Geneva. We visited this lake the next day, before we got on the road to Interlaken.

Lac Léman 

Lac Léman 

Ain't Lac Léman a beauty? At least one hour was spent admiring this amazing view by the shore. This video sums up our days in Lausanne. Watch it. Its funnnn :)

So, off we go, from Lausanne to Interlaken. See you again on my next entry.

That's it for my Interlaken trip.
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