5 things I would like to see in Switzerland
Switzerland offers a wide variety of things to do and see - Darren Maule has put together the five things he would like to see before he leaves Switzerland:
1. Buildings that war forgot.
Because Switzerland has never been invaded and was relatively unscathed by the two Great Wars: there is some of the oldest architecture in Europe.
One building I would love to see is the St Gallen cathedral. Imagine walking through a 1400 year old building...
2. Medieval nature.
Mixing medieval architecture with a natural wonder, near the town of Schaffhausen on the Rhine river there is a castle (Schoss Laufen) right next to Europe's largest waterfall.
3. Heidi's Hills
Mountains, snow and green hills unfettered by humans and their trappings. I will go there and when Natarah isn't around... I will sing! 'Heidi' and 'The hills are alive...' From The Sound of Music.
4. Freddie Mercury's statue.
A statue in Montreux, has been erected as a tribute to Freddie Mercury!
Fans from around the world gather in Switzerland annually to pay tribute to the singer as part of the "Freddie Mercury Montreux Memorial Day."
I'll miss the memorial but I have to take a selfie with Freddie!
5. Swiss efficiency
I want to set my watch by arrival and departure times of planes, trains, buses and restaurant reservations.
I heard that a Swiss man resigned from his job in disgust when he arrived late with the train for the first time in 36 years!
My obsessive compulsive hair is going to stand on end when I experience this kind of efficiency! They even have The Swiss Transport Museum in Lucerne
These are just 5 of my little Swiss things.
PS. And if there is time, I would like to discover the God particle - or at least to go where it was found.
The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is a $10billion machine with electrical splices between the 1,200 superconducting magnets that bend particle beams around the 27km-long underground ring.
The machine found the illusive Higgs Boson which was dubbed 'The God Particle' because it was hypothesized that it would exist if the Big Bang Theory was correct. Well, it exists and I want to have a selfie with it or at least the machine that made it.
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