So the group finally had a free day today to do whatever we wanted, which may have been a mistake. Much of group wanted to hike up Mont-Salève, so 22 of us left and took a bus intending to be at the bottom of the mountain by 10:30 am. We took the bus until the end stop and that is when twenty-two college educated students got lost for three and a half hours. We were in the middle of a residential community walking around
for an hour with all our hiking gear. We walked on and eventually reached the border between Switzerland and France… After crossing into France all of us very frustrated and confused about where to go we took a bus that was meant to take us there but only took us half way because it didn’t run the full way on Saturdays. So as a group we made the intelligent decision to walk on the European freeway all the way to the bottom of the mountain, which was about 2.5 miles. Thankfully non of us were hit by a car on our way! We made it to the bottom of the mountain very tired already. Then it was time to actually hike and we weren’t so prepared for that either. We were warned ahead of time that the Swiss are very strong and dangerous hikers, but non of us actually acknowledged that this might be the case… After two hours of VERY steep hiking we made it to the top! The views were absolutely stunning! I have say its wonderful to have 
so many adventurous people on this trip, because every single one of us was determined to climb a mountain and so we did without any broken bones! All the sourness and pains melted away when we found ourselves looking directly over all of Geneva and having a perfect view of Mont Blanc!
But that is not the end of the story… So when got back down the mountain with the cable car, we took the number 8 bus which literally only took 13 minutes to get directly back to our apartment, so how our group managed to get lost for three and a half hours… nobody knows… When we finally reached our apartment I passed out on the bed!
So, you walked ON the Autobahn, did your mother not ever tell you that might be kind of dangerous (: There is no speed limit.... Glad you are having great adventures with adventurous people in a beautiful country.
ReplyDeleteHow do you manage to take such amazing pictures like the first one with the paraglider? Must be the camera.. when are we going to do that??
ReplyDeleteCome to Switzerland and we'll go paragliding together!
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