Easter vacation with a Swiss taste

There we were, Eva and me, waiting for the slightly delayed flight to depart from Barajas Airport in Madrid. Both of us really excited about meeting some of our international friends from UVM. After a night in the bus in which I couldn't really sleep much I felt a little bit tired. Nothing better to cure it than the fresh air of Switzerland. I must admit I was nervous in a way because I didn't know how comfortable things were gonna be. I mean, some of the guys I haven't talked with them for such a long time I wasn't sure we still shared that connection that made us good friends back in Vermont. But I was really glad to check that after the first couple of minutes, which are always of expectancy, it seemed like we had been together for the past months. There was no sign of that break in our relationships we had gone thru.
So after all this philosophical thinking I did as introduction I'm gonna go through what happened in the reunion. I'll try to make it short because I don't want to bore the few people who read my blog. Anyway, Eva and I arrived at Geneva on Sunday at around noon and decided to stay there till dinner. Since none of us knew the city we wanted to explore it for a while, so we went for a walk. Most of you might know that the main attraction of Geneva is the huge artificial geyser they have in the lake. Because it was windy, a guy told us they weren't gonna turn it on. It wasn't fair! we wanted to see it. So as if the people in charge of it had heard us they made it work and we could take some pictures with our faces showing all our excitement.




Anita and Adrian went to pick us up at Fribourg train station. Since it was already "Swiss dinner time", you know, about 6 or 7pm, Adrian invited us to have dinner at his place. He invited, but we had to do most of the cooking and the dishes, I don't know about you, but that's not what we call an invitation in Spain. hehe. Just kidding Adrian! According to our detailed program written by Anita next day plan was: "hanging out in Fribourg waiting for Torsten to arrive". So after meeting Cristoph we followed the program and did as it said. We visited Fribourg and killed some time here and there until Torsten arrived. This time Anita invited us to have some risotto at her place, delicious! And of course, we went out at night. Come on, how could we skip a "Crazy Monday"? the party day in Fribourg. It was actually really fun and I ended up sleeping and having some spaghettis at Adrian's, even though all my stuff was at Anita's. On Tuesday we went to visit Bern. I had already been there, but it was worth going a second time.




On Wednesday we got cheap day passes for transportation, which was a relief considering transport in Switzerland is extremely expensive. We used them to get to Luzern, beautiful city located in the shore of one of the numerous lakes in the country. And finally, on Thursday we went to visit Gruyere, the town were the world famous cheese is produced. We had a look into the factory (guided by our beloved and sexy, sooooo sexy cow) and then got to the typical village of Gruyere. But the best part of the day was still to come. Adrian drove us to a spa in the alps. It had everything, an outdoors warm pool, turkish baths, saunas, etc. And for students like us with our discount it was pretty cheap. After getting relaxed it was time for the most famous dish in Switzerland: Fondue. The cheese fondue we prepared at Adrian's place that day was jammy. It was really tasty and soooooooo good. Greatly complemented by the toasts we all did in our different languages. My flight left Geneva airport at 6.25am so we stayed up until three or so and then got the car. Thanks Adrian for the ride, it was very nice from you.




I got to Madrid at 8.25am and spent a great weekend with Julen and Mauro there, but that will be the topic of another post. I believe this one is already too long and maybe kind of boring to read. At this point you might not even laugh if I say: "chicken likes oil, everybody knows that" (don't worry if you don't get it, inside joke again). I just want to thank Anita and Adrian for making this reunion possible. We all had a great time and it was just awesome seeing and being with you again. I hope this is the beginning of lots of other reunions that will bring us together again from time to time forever. So the only question is: Where and When will be the next one?