5 JUNE 2006

MONDAG:
somewhere around 19h

kids are like "yeah we came here for a really extreme vacation!!"
which I guess is what most people are up to here. jumping off of things, etc.
Tomorrow I go to Gimmelwald. I imagine it will be really quiet, with maybe almost no one else? I wonder how many others will be there. I wonder how much it will cost .. !! I should have asked when I made the reservation. I should check out their website and see what the options are. I think I asked for a bed .... oh well. I'll stay the first night, almost regardless.. I think I should leave pretty early in the day. trains to the first place run about every 30 mins - then I need a bus, and a cable car, to get to G'wald. Then the hostel is "right there." I think it's a super-tiny town. no food store or anything.
train to Lauterbrunnen
bus to Stechelberg
cable car to Gimmelwald.
Gimmelwald - Mountain Hostel.
CH-3826 Gimmelwald
23 CHF
kitchen
reserved 3 nights



ENIVREZ-VOUS: Baudelaire.
Il faut être toujours ivre, tout est là ; c'est l'unique question. Pour ne pas sentir l'horrible fardeau du temps qui brise vos épaules et vous penche vers la terre, il faut vous enivrer sans trêve.

Mais de quoi? De vin, de poésie, ou de vertu à votre guise, mais enivrez-vous!

Et si quelquefois, sur les marches d'un palais, sur l'herbe verte d'un fossé, vous vous réveillez, l'ivresse déjà diminuée ou disparue, demandez au vent, à la vague, à l'étoile, à l'oiseau, à l'horloge; à tout ce qui fuit, à tout ce qui gémit, à tout ce qui roule, à tout ce qui chante, à tout ce qui parle, demandez quelle heure il est. Et le vent, la vague, l'étoile, l'oiseau, l'horloge, vous répondront, "il est l'heure de s'enivrer ; pour ne pas être les esclaves martyrisés du temps, enivrez-vous, enivrez-vous sans cesse de vin, de poésie, de vertu, à votre guise."

where to go next?
Dolomites
Siena, It.? Perugia
Naples? (super dense, intense, crowded)
Amalfi coast:
-Amalfi (15km west) - ostello Beato Solitudo (9.50 euro)
-Brindisi - cheap - hotel Venezia
Eolias Islands
-camping in Salina and Culcano

Avignon
Sarlat-la-caneda
Perigueux
Medoc region
Basque region

21h35
ate salad with tuna for dinner again. so delicious somehow. also, bread. what I have left: 1/2 package salami, 1/3 jar p.b., 3 packets mustard, 4 hot dogs, 1/2 bag mixed greens, 6 slices bread, butter. need: cheese, cans of stuff, meat, granola/oatmeal.
I wonder if there are any restaurants in Gimmelwald? I wonder if the hostel serves dinner or even breakfast?

$1 = 1.10 fr (CHF)
$0.91= 1 fr

1 euro = 1.50 fr
0.67 euro = 1 fr

is this right? the difference between euros and dollars doesn't make sense.
just stick to the euro conversion

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