Big day. The woman we are staying with, Frida, had hooked me up with one of her friends who owns a vinyard. She arranged for me to work the afternoon on the vinyard as they are in the midst of harvesting all the grapes for the season. I didnt know what to expect but was really excited about the experience. I was dropped off around 12:30 and met the owners, a really nice Swiss couple with a large farm house. I then quickly joined up with the team of workers to ...

Definetly in the top 5 of the best weekends of my life! We left friday night as soon as Aline was finished work and took the 7pm train from Geneva to Frutigen to stay the night with Aline's family before hedding off the next morning to Monza, Italy. The train ride was nice because I was fresh off my second interview with Altran and the job prospects are very positive. Aline and I were definetly spending the money before we had it, but it was refreshing to be abl...

The fete des vendanges is the Geneva festival of the vinyards. We had heard about it from the woman we are staying with and were eager to see what it was all about. The festival was held in a small town of 400 ppl outside of Geneva called Russin. For this one weekend a year, the town of 400 welcomes thousands of people to drink their wines, eat their food and celebrate the grape harvest. The city was really cool, and full of tents serving wine, food and playing...

We found out that you can borrow bikes from the city and use them for free during the day. Interesting......Why not?...so we did. We got our bikes, helmets and locks, all free of charge and set off to go "explore". "We" wanted to go along the lake and see the sites and views and maybe run into a vinyard or two. Sure, sounds like a god idea, why not, so we set off to find the lake and follow it east. luckily it was a beautiful sunny day, so no ...

Last night at 11 pm after about an hour of searching on the internet for somewhere to go hiking and after Aline had fallen asleep mid search, I decided that we were going to take a chance and head to an area called Sierre. We didn't know much about the area but I was sure we would figure something out. The internet showed some hiking so we couldn't go wrong. We got up early and were on the train from Geneva at 7:30 on our way to sierra. (2.5 hr train ride) This t...