Switzerland travel

ucsd_ucla_dad
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:26:00 +0000

One interesting point about Switzerland is how it goes from German speaking to French speaking to Italian speaking areas in such a short distance. You might want to make sure you hit all of these 3 regions so you can have some nice Wienerschnitzel in one area, Lasagna in another area, and whatever the French like to eat (snails?) in the other area.

We were driving along once when I spotted a castle up on a hill so we drove over by it and went up to it (Bellinzona castle). We toured it but it was just us, another party of 2 guys, and the tour guide. The tour guide only spoke Italian but a guy in the other party spoke Italian and German so he’d translate the Italian to German and then I’d try to go from German to English with my 2 years HS German capabilities (i.e. not much). It was fun doing this. While the other party was off looking at something the tour guide kept saying something to us in Italian but I didn’t understand him. Finally he basically grabbed our camera - he wanted to take a picture of us at the castle for us to have.

Touring some of the more off the beaten track places like this can be fun.