Today was our last full day in Lucerne and as Man from Mars says “we’ve done a full round trip!” (he meant “we’ve come full circle” but he tends to customise his clichés). The coming full circle he was referring to was the fact that it’s very close to the end of our trip and the weather has become dreadfully cold and rainy—just like it was near the start of our trip in London. Today temps reached 12 degrees, with the wind and rain adding that extra chill factor that made us both whimper. Today I had to pile on a jumper, jacket and bought another cardie to layer on under my jacket because I couldn’t handle the cold. Tomorrow, after we leave Europe, we’ll be in Korea where the temps are sitting in the mid 30’s. My body will be so very confused.
Anyway, today was a pretty relaxed day. We started off with a cruise around Lake Lucerne. Unfortunately, because of the fog and low hanging clouds, we didn’t get to see the snow capped mountains that everyone comes to Lucerne to see. However, the green mountain face and cute colourful houses made for a delightful boat ride nonetheless. We braved the front deck (and the wind, rain and chill) for the first half hour to take some pictures (below) before retreating indoors and telling the old Italian couple seated next to us “Brrrrrr!!!” (a universally understood sound effect) to which they rubbed their hands together (a universally understood action) and we laughed together.
[Our ship:]
[The green-ness of it all:]
[The mountain-ness of it all:]
[The freezing coldness of it all:]
Afterwards, we had a typically Deutsch lunch of Currywurst, bread and baked potatoes, before setting off for some typically Swiss shopping- think chocolate and knives. Man from Mars and I each made some critical Victorinox purchases (do you know how many different types of pocket knives they have in the Lucerne branch for Victorinox?) before indulging in the cocoa aromas at Bachmann.
As the rain was pouring down for the much of the day, we opted for an early dinner of vegetable pasta and pizza before returning to our room to repack our bags. Man from Mars is such an organiser, and our bags have been categorised accordingly:
- Fragiles
- Stuff we need in Korea
- Everything else
It’s worked out quite well and he reckons we’ll *just* make the weight limit. Our flight is at 9:30 pm tomorrow and we land in Korea at 3:30 pm. It’s gonna be a looooonnnng day.
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