Last night I made friends with a Lebanese chemist, a Mexican electrical engineer and a South African international aid worker. The variety of perspectives and experiences you find in a single hostel can be astounding. We found dinner at the train station, which is colocated with what is best described as an underground shopping mall, and […]
My hostel here in Bern is one of the nicest but emptiest places I´ve stayed in the last several months. But last night I did get to chat with a couple of other solo travelers (one Aussie, one Norwegian) over dinner (variations on Adam´s Hostel Surprise) and a DVD (Seven Years in Tibet). Both of […]
This morning, I reluctantly made my departure from St. Gallen. With a quick transfer in Zurich, I was standing on the platform in the Bern train station only two hours after leaving St. Gallen. The weather here is great, and it´s bit warmer than it was in St. Gallen.
While I wasn´t successful in finding live […]
I caught my train from Milan yesterday without incident. Though the post office was a pain in the neck, I still managed to hit the grocery store and get to the train station with time to spare. Travel day is almost starting to feel routine.
On the train, I chatted with a Swiss family returning from […]