interlaken, switzerland

heyheyhey
it is almost 8pm here. like almost 6 am in melbourne city.
didn't find mel on skype this time. *lucky her - i would have told her off for being so deprived of daylight from sleeping early in the morning :P

it's been a long time sine i last blogged
well it feels like a long time. actually 6 days is kinda a long time travel wise.
anyway
so last time i blogged i mentioned i was heading off to oxford via london
and we sure did. but JUST. coz it was snowing heaps in london city so flight was delayed like an hour.
apparently we entered into the WORST SNOW STORM IN 30 YEARS
what luck ! LOL
arrived at the 'London City Airport'. ahah yeah it's no heathrow
and when we exited... we could feel the cold
forgot to mention that pretty much the whole of the united kingdom was snowed over before we arrived so we got a view of a white london as we arrived. which is a pretty different view to what you can usually see from a plane to any other city

it was freaking cold.
we took the 'DLR' which is their docklands light rail aka a tram thing, to the famous london underground tube!
actually it's pretty old & our metro looks better but trains are very frequent and all.
ive noticed all the european train systems are really similar so i guess once you figure out one, you can figure out all the others?
it's defs different to melb though.
anyway
i got realllyyy excited at all the station names. ahaha im so cool.
can you guess why?

monopoly !
8)
names that i recognised i would yell out in excitement. how lame of me. actually scratch that. i know you would too.
okay and maybe i didnt yell but yeah i was excited.
dw anyway i took a picture of the train line thingo that tells you all the names :)

so back to oxford. we took a train from 'paddington station' (chyeahh paddington bear much?) to oxford. cept trains were like wildy delayed and cancelled because of the crazy snowy weather. bl
finally got on a train and got to oxford safely.
LOL coming out of the station
SNOW EVERYWHERE :O
like the road outside the railway station was like so mushhy and stuff
on our bus ride on the way to our inn... gahhh snowwww baby ! hells yeah. it was so pretty. especially coz oxford is such an old town, the buildings were really nice but the snow just made it even nicer. the snow like hung off every edge, it was so pretty !
so after we got off the bus, we had to walk about 5 mins to the 'premier inn'. mmm this would have been a lovely walk, and would have actually taken us 5 mins, if not for the fact that it started snowing like CRAZY as we began to walk.
pretty much got caught in the snow storm, while pulling our heavy luggage across the ground (which by the way is even worse because it's snow!).
but i must say that was extremelyyyyy fun.
other than that i was freezing my ass off and wishing to get warm.
snow was so bad we wanted to call a taxi. then again a taxi wouldnt do much for us either, coz it was so dangerous to drive too.

anywayy
next day we took one of those tourist buses again. took lots of pretty photos because snow makes things 100 times more prettier that it is. LOL i think that is a fact. because otherwise it would just look like a nice old building.
oxford is pretty cool actually. the whole town IS the university
so the uni is spread out everywhere
the eng building is once place, the med building on the other side of town. the whole town is based on the uni !
tis pretty coool.

that day, we satisfied our asian tendencies with a bit of asian siew nap fan = roast duck rice
twas okay actually. :D


just want to put it out there. snow is great. but the worst feeling everrr from snow.... is having the feeling like your toes are frozen :(
it's actually the worst feeling. it's like they are numb, but not. and you don't want them to be numb so you wiggle them, but even the wiggling hurts. so its a lose -lose situation. :(((( and
i put on like 3 layers of socks. no joke. and my toes still felt horrible. bleughhh
found out it's my boots that are the problem. only today we figured that out though. so since then my toes have been frozen everyyyy single day. LOL epic fail on my part



okay ill continue this post later. right now im too tireeeed
it's been a long day
we've been up to the swiss alps walking around and taking manymanymany photos. pictures certainly don't do this place justice coz its is effing amazing here. the mountains are so picturesque and beautiful.
i promise that i will upload more photos. i wont tease you this time. ill give you heaps LOL
i've taken some pretty awesome ones that im sure you will love :P
and i promise i will blog about switzerland too
gahh so much to talk about
please tell me what you've been up to toooo
coz i miss you alll
and you are probably bored of me talking about myself., dw i know i would be too. im such a lamo.


not actually sure the next time ill get internet but we'll seeeeee

lots of love,
empowpow
xo