While in Bern, I went inside this amazing looking church, The Münster of Bern. It really looked amazing inside, and was just so huge. It took me a while to work out how to get up the tower - you had to pay 4CHF then there was a little tiny door that lead up a really skinny staircase that took you to the top - but there was an amazing view of the city from the top.

Time to update this blog. After my big night in Zurich, I stayed home most of Saturday, but went to the next town north in the afternoon (Brugg). It was a lot bigger than I expected, certainly bigger than Turgi. Had a lot more shops and stuff, but nothing too exciting. There were some cool houses along the river.

Whilst aimlessly walking around the city, I saw in tiny writing on the door that one building was a museum, so had a mosey inside. There wasn’t anything particularly special in it, but was definitely worth looking around. It was mostly filled with life-like animal displays, which looked like they were stuffed versions of the real thing, but I’m not sure if they all were. It also made it hard to understand what I was looking at sometimes, when all the information was in German.

So after work on Friday I thought I would see what the closest town (Baden) is like. It is much bigger than Turgi, with a lot of shops and stuff, it even had a McDonalds and Burger King. The buildings there are all look amazing though, and all the streets are cobblestone. The river passes through here as well, and there was three guys jumping into it then swimming across into a calm section (before being taken away by the current).

After Baden, I headed into Zürich for Zürifäscht, which I had no idea what it was but was something to do. Basically it was like Fire in the Sky in Rockhampton, but much, much better. I heard about it through IAESTE (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience ) who organised my visa, and put on trips and stuff for everyone over here on a placement. On the train I met three people in IAESTE by chance, one guy from England had even done German lessons with Quinny back when he was over here.

The Limmat is the river between my apartment and work. There’s a pretty cool walking path along it which I took some photos of yesterday. There was this cable thing spanning the river which I took a photo of, and as I took it a fox (pretty sure it was a fox anyway) appeared out of nowhere.

I took lots of photos of the buildings around town today, as they are so differently designed to in Australia. Also everyone seems to be obsessed with their gardens, as there are flowers and well kept gardens for pretty much every single house. Even this bridge had flower beds on it:

I’m staying at a 4 bedroom apartment at: Spinnereistrasse 4, CH-5300 Turgi I’m sharing with 3 other people, a guy from Poland, a girl from Germany and a guy from Czech Republic. When I first arrived there was a guy from Germany here too (Jan), but he was only staying the weekend. The apartment is pretty sweet, a photo of my room is above. And then there is 2 bathrooms and a shared kitchen/living room:

The flight was extremely long, and horribly uncomfortable. Thai airways was an awesome airline though, everything was very schmick but it didn’t change the fact that you had to sit in the same spot for 8 hours. Bangkok airport was pretty cool, the place was massive. As it was night time it was hard to tell how big exactly since you couldn’t see outside, but it seemed to go on forever.