Sleeping outside... Again. I'm just waiting for a train to take me through the alps and into Italy. Then a bus to take me back to Switzerland. Strange as that might seem, it is actually pretty valid. The Bernina Express is the name of it. It goes straight through high alp passes and affords great views apparently. But just to be on the safe side, I thought I might as well go to chur and sleep there. You know, so as to not miss the train... As with everything i...

Last city for me now. Milano. I've been here two nights already now, and have got two more. I would so dearly love to go to Venice and Florence and Rome and so many other towns here that have influenced history so massively. So much culture, so exquisite architecture, so good food. I am still living on pretty much a shoestring as usual, but here I have to try the culinary arts to some extent. Gelato, pizza, pasta, panini... So much goodies, and actually affor...

And this was the Bernina express. Precisely the sort of train I was expecting, and hoping for. This is just a stop in between, in Tirano. The true end for the Bernina express is Lugano, in the Italian part of Switzerland, but everything is like half the price in Italy, so might as well report here. Almost didn't make the bus to Lugano btw. I didn't have a seat reservation, or something, and I was getting a bit nervous for a while that I wasn't going to catch th...

Fourth tiniest country in the world, Liechtenstein. Basically just a province of Switzerland, they have the same currency, same language, similar scenery, etc. Used to be close to the Austrians, but after WWI they switched to Switzerland, since Austria was pretty darned f***ed. Or that it was then they separated from Austria, and WWII was when they became friends with the only other neutral country close. Anyway, beautiful country, but cloudy and rainy now. Th...

Time for some couch surfing again. Found a really cool guy to stay with here in Zurich. He's also studying engineering, so he showed me around Zürichs technical university, and I am VERY impressed. The campus is damn huge and everything is really, really neat. All chromed steel and glass walls, carbon-hexagon carved into the roof, DNA-helix for a staircase in the chemistry building. I thought Lund was pretty big, but this I just insane. And everything looks jus...