Luzern and on to Budapest (4 countries in 12 hours)

We caught a train from Lungern (where we were staying) to Lucerne, a major Swiss city. When we reached Lucerne we had a whole day to wader around before catching another train at 8:30pm to Zurich so we could get an overnight train to Budapest.

Lucerne was a very pretty town build around medieval ruins. We walked around a part of the old medieval wall and saw the worlds first medieval fully mechanical clock ring 12:00. I  was amazing because we were on a hill and could hear all the other bells in Lucerne ringing.

After this we wandered around for some more and went to the dying lion monument, described by Mark Twain as "the saddest and most moving piece of rock in the world". We then went to the glacier museum of Lucerne which was really various things built around an 18th century house build on an ancient glacier. Probably the best attraction was the mirror maze (I will post pictures of it later as i don't have them loaded onto dad's laptop yet).

We spent most of the rest of the day wandering around Lucerne and visiting the handcraft market, which had some amazing glass ball pendants.

We then caught the train which went from Switzerland to Germany, through Austria and then on to Budapest, in Hungary. Fairly good night sleep (for some of us, but not all).

Great to hear that everyone passed the S.C. Haven't seen my results because I don't know my Student ID. How did everyone go? Hope the formal in good and that your year 10 concert thing (hahahahaha) went well. I felt a bit sorry for Cameron but then stopped to think and realized how much he deserved it. Anyway, here are some snow pictures:

 

Posted at 9:22pm Hungary time