casas tipicas

This is Juan's parents' house in the town of El Alamo (20min from Madrid). Everyone here has a wall around the house so you can't see at all what is inside. Swimming pools are also very common, (thank god). Juan's pool is empty this year, but we use his aunt's pool who lives right next door. The huge brick house is his aunt's house. It is also common to see tiles on the ground outside instead of grass. Juan's garden has a palm and fig tree as you can see, and there are olive trees at his aunt's house. All the doors also have a curtain like thing hanging in front of them. Javi (juan's bro) has a canary, his name is Pirri.

zürich

we are back in spain, but our last stop was zürich. on saturday it was also the street parade so we went to see it, but only for a couple of hours. there were some interesting costumes. on sunday we did some sightseeing as you can see from the pictures. our last weekend in swissland was sunny, a nice way to end our trip after 3 days of rain. thanks to everyone who let us stay at their house!! i hope you guys will come by madrid sometime. it was nice seeing you all.

Bern - the capital

we spent the day in bern yesterday, the capital of switzerland. here are some pictures of the old town including the münster (cathedral) and the zeitturm (clock tower). bern is known for its bears. there are 2 pits with brown bears. they are so cute. i will try to get the video of the bears in my blog.

Schachen

mom took us to Schachen which is where we used to live in switzerland. our house is not standing anymore, but the barn is still there. we lived up on the hill and the town is pretty small, so we were almost in heidi land.

Rigi

we took a trip up the Rigi. first we took the boat from luzern and then we took the little train up the mountain. it's pretty expensive but the view is beautiful (thanks mom for the tickets). the picture with the mountain view with no people is from the pilatus, its the mountain in luzern. the rest are from the bottom and the top of the rigi.

Luzern - the nicest town in swissland (my town)

we are in luzern where there is a famous wood bridge (kapelbrugg) along with the water tower. we met up with my mom and walked along the wall of luzern where there are seven towers still standing. you can see the picture with juan on the man tower (männliturm).

Switzerland

The land of chocolate and cheese, and everyone is so damn skinny :) The first two days we were staying near St. Gallen in the town Rebstein. We were visiting some of my university friends and their boyfriends were with them. We were very international besides swiss we had people from spain, holland, and germany. August first is Swiss national day so we saw the flag everywhere we went. We stopped by Rapperswil where I met my sister in law for the first time and I saw my bro. We are now in Luzern where we are walking a lot...