Switzerland Day 2

I conquered Mount Titlis today. I apologize for saying it was 7,000 metres above sea level. Not even Everest is that high. It is 10,000 feet high which is 3,020 metres.

I got to the very peak of Mount Titlis. It was snowing and foggy. Some people went tubing up there but I elected to go with Jason and Kat on a hike from the middle of the mountain to the base. It took us 2 and a half hours with a stop for coffee. On the hike we saw cows with cowbells. Unbelievable how some people have cow herds at 5,000 feet above the ground.

There was also a beautiful lake that was crystal blue. It looked like a large swimming pool but it was all natural. The entire walk itself felt like something out of Lord of the rings with winding trails and high peaks.

Getting to the peak of Mount Titlis was slightly scary with cable cars that were an 80 degree incline in some spots. It took three cable cars that were getting larger by capacity as I was going up. The very last cable car was run by a Swiss woman who could speak a few languages including hebrew. She said "welcome to the only spinning cable car in the world" in hebrew and even said that the weather was "al hapanim" which means not good.

I heard about the news out of Heathrow. I am not particularly alarmed. I am still going with plans as usual. I have faith in the Israeli airport security.

I called my aunt and she told me I should stick to my plans. My aunt is very wise so I will listen to her.

I should lend some words to last night. Most of the group went to a local bar which is like a club. It was really nice times and with the franc being close to par with the Canadian dollar (94 cents to the franc), drinks are somewhat the same as they are in Canada at 7 francs a pop.

Everything else though is expensive as heck. The Swiss pay all their employees double what they could make here and then charge alarming rates at their touristy spots and most shops. But you can trust that everything is pretty high quality and you should be relatively satisfied with your purchases.

I was going to be very frugal with my money when I began this trip but our tour guide encourages us to throw caution to the wind and act as though this could be my last ever trip to Europe. That is how I am treating things and it is the best way to go about it. I am not destitute anyway.