switzerland (1 Viewer)

[eoghan_dubhdara]

so has ananyyone been to switzerland? i've never been but due to circumstances its the only country i can go sking in. its very dear whereever ive looked. have never been sking. anyone know good or cheap places to go in switzerland?

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i spent a week in geneva once - it was very expensive and quite boring. i found an excellent record shop but everything was too expensive. this was 10 years ago and i had hardly any money so maybe its cheaper now.

 

[magicbastarder]

spent a few days in interlaken donkeys years ago. thoroughly enjoyed it.
if you go there, go to the beatushöhlen and the trummelbach falls; the former is a 1.4km long cave system, with guided tours, the latter is a waterfall inside a mountain.

 

[Jill Hives]

Has anyone done the Golden Eye Bungee jump? I've become slightly obsessed with the idea and want to do it in 2010. I'd want to make it a long weekend type trip and see other things as well. Who has been there?

Awesome.

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[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

i asked a guy i used to go to college with what switzerland was like and all he said was "just go, just go"

 

[washingcattle]

Spent a day in Zurich while interrailling. Horrible people, too many bees, too expensive, boring, unfriendly, looked like a giant shopping mall, hated it and everybody there. Mind you I've heard people raving about it. Interlakken is apparently like spring break all year round cos the yanks have made shite of it.

I detest their football team too. Boring cunts.

 

[Jill Hives]

Spent a day in Zurich while interrailling. Horrible people, too many bees, too expensive, boring, unfriendly, looked like a giant shopping mall, hated it and everybody there. Mind you I've heard people raving about it. Interlakken is apparently like spring break all year round cos the yanks have made shite of it.

I detest their football team too. Boring cunts.

Great, I'll fit in so.

 

[billygannon]

If you go, remember to bring your own water, a set of weights and a small wooden statuette of your mother. And salt. Lots and lots of salt.

 

[pete]

Swiss Railways Network

maps.vasile.ch

 

[Deadmanposting]

Swiss Railways Network

maps.vasile.ch

I've traveled by train here a few times and it's close to mind-blowing, the countryside is just so beautiful

Fabulous country
Heading back this summer

 

[Bladez]

I totally agree. Great train service, fantastic scenery. But it's just so expensive, that it would put me off going there on a longer trip. A couple of years ago I cycled around Lake Konstanz and everything from accommodation to food was at least twice as expensive as in the German or Austrian sides.

 

[ann post]

Thier flag is a big plus

 

[Deadmanposting]

I totally agree. Great train service, fantastic scenery. But it's just so expensive, that it would put me off going there on a longer trip. A couple of years ago I cycled around Lake Konstanz and everything from accommodation to food was at least twice as expensive as in the German or Austrian sides.

Reading a thing in the paper a few weeks back how no one in Zurich can afford to buy a house there
Like basically no one.
People that make €250k - not a hope. Renters.

Kinda not surprising, you walk around Zurich and it's fucking Ferraris and Porsches and the most fuck off Mercs you ever saw, just everywhere.

ETA - found it
Average mortgage downpayment is €300k
Lol

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/realestate/zurich-switzerland-renting-homes.html

 

[ann post]

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I went to a conference in Geneva and had to take the bus back to France to eat and sleep because it was so expensive in Switzerland. I had to walk to France one night because there’s no bus after 10 or something and taxis were only for people with UN expenses accounts (and there’s no pedestrian access to the border at night because *obviously* people only drive, right?).

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I went to a conference in Geneva and had to take the bus back to France to eat and sleep because it was so expensive in Switzerland. I had to walk to France one night because there’s no bus after 10 or something and taxis were only for people with UN expenses accounts (and there’s no pedestrian access to the border at night because *obviously* people only drive, right?).

In short, shit country even with the scenery.

 

[Deadmanposting]

I swam naked in Lake Zurich just after dawn, it is a lovely memory

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Is that because you lost the clothes on your back just trying to buy a sandwich there?

 

[seanc]

I stayed here for a couple of days:

Brig-Glis - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Best flights we could get flew us into Geneva and out of Zurich, or vice versa. Both two hour train rides. I didn't mind because I like Twain's. DOUBLE DECKER TRAINS!!!! Tickets were I think €300 each.

Actually Milan is the nearest airport but the Swiss told us that that airport is unacceptable.

Prices are not totally atrocious. There's skiing, even when it's 25C at valley level.

I thank it for my life-changing conversion to sparkling water. Local wine is really good ("yes, of course you don't know about Swiss wine, we keep the good wine for ourselves").

 

[Deadmanposting]

Gonna do like 6 stages of this in the summer (hopefully)

The Via Alpina in the Swiss Alps: A guide to the trek, by Alpine Exploratory

An introduction to walking the Via Alpina in the Swiss Alps.

www.alpineexploratory.com

Aiming for Switzerland Day on August 1st (I think)