Schaffausen and Rheinfall

We went to Schaffausen to see the Rheinfall (Rhine river waterfall), but first we took a look around town!:



See between the buildings, through the fog, the lookout tower?

Cool old painted building:



Walking up the many stairs to the lookout tower. There were grapes all the way up the hill!




Halfway up...

It was super foggy, but in a cool way.


That is the Rhein river flowing through the town.


Me and Roo hangin out on a canon at the top:

Shelly and Roo inside the defensive structure:


And the Rheinfall, the largest waterfall in Switzerland. It was a healthy walk from the town... well actually we just took the bus. My camera really didn’t do it justice.


We had a little picnic right here alongside the falls. BLTs and wine.

Zurich

Some pics of downtown Zurich. I was headed to the eastern side of Switzerland so I got off here and did some walking around, and had a coffee at a little cafe.


Cool riverfront/lakefront.

Vending Machine (good times in Zurich)

In Switzerland they see drug abuse as more of a medical concern than a criminal act. Thats why they have these nifty little vending machines in big cities. Its important that drug users have clean needles, because the risk of spreading HIV and other stuff would be a bigger concern to us than the actual abuse of the drugs in itself. For 2 bucks a user gets a couple of clean needles, some alcohol swabs, saline, and ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) which is used to help dissolve the junk into a solution that can be used. I picked up a box, since for 2 bucks it was the cheapest souvenir I was going to find in Zurich...

Milan

We had gone to Milan for a few days a little while back. Milan is considered the fashion capital of the world, which does not really impress two humble Ohions... but for us it was all about visiting a big city (8 million peeps in the metropolitan area) and listening to Italians scream at each other. Heres what went down:

Our room, 10 mins from the main station and cheap as always:



The big cathedral. Super awesome to see in person. Our trip to Milan involved spending a lot of time in this square, exploring the cathedral, and just hanging out here eating gelato!



A close up of some of the detail. Apparently the cathedral has the worlds larges collection of marble statues, and it is covered with them, inside and out.







Archway in the same square as the cathedral. An important landmark of the city, the covered street it invites you to is a high end fashion area.

The covered street, home of the $7000 purse :

Milan Duomo (continued)

We paid the 8 bucks to climb around on the roof of the cathedral.








See the golden Statue at the top?

CORN?!?!?!

The golden Madonna at the very top is a symbol of the city:



Shelly is... sick.

AWWWW dont do that!

Pear boobs.



And then the inside! (have you had enough of this thing yet?)

Milan Duomo inside