Food & Travelogy: Switzerland Day 1 (Bern) : 19 May 2013

Bringing happy hearts to leave Milano to Switerland, Bern =D However, the journey turns out to be quite a nightmare.. haha

Subway map of Milano

Me taking a random pose while waiting for the train to Milano Centrale Station, and oh yah, the waiting time can be 6.5 minutes at times =P Hence, some time to while =D

My best companion of the whole Eu trip, Peng =D

Continuing from our Milano Centrale stop to Switzerland, our planned stop is to go Bern. Guess what, the silly duo of us reserved our train tickets but hopped onto a wrong train that landed ourselves at Genova

It was a 3.5hrs painful train ride and I was always grunting to my friend that I dislike the train ride as it was damn boring. I had nothing to do but snack all the way while Peng was catching her Korean dramas on her mobile phone=p During each stopover, we thought that we were nearer to our dreamed country.. Little did we know, erm, why are we stopping at Genova and the lights in the train were all switched off. We were still wondering shouldn't the train be stopping at Bern..(Yeah..the naive duo really thought we were in some part of Switzerland till Peng and myself alighted from the station and since lugging luggages was a pain. Peng told me to take care of the luggages while she go check it out.. Minutes passes and from afar, I saw Missy with a very disgruntled face.. and Peng exclaimed to me.. guess what.. we were still in Italy and we had to take back to Milano and re-reserved our tickets. The next departing train to Milan was 2 hours later. So the 2 hungry gals went to grab a bite at some random sandwich shop.

Our late Lunch at the Sandwich shop

We really cant understand their Italian and they cant speak English. This was the worst meal ever. We grabbed a Vegetarian set and I guess they did ask if we want to heat it up. However, we were all conversing ( with all our hand signals) .. gosh so I told them one yes one no... end up.. yes,, one sandwich was warm the other was cold.. Arghzz wad a pain.. Remember that I was complaining to Peng that the train ride was boring? Yes, I was totally in shatters, to imagine the journey back to Milan. Okay, the planned train journey was supposed to be: Milan to Bern ( I will guess its a 3.5 hours ride)

So yes, we took the 3.5hours train ride back to Milan and we wanted to catch the train that departed Milan to Bern at 640pm. Hence, we reached Milan at 625pm, again Peng dashed down to get the reservations while I watched our luggages. As time ticked by, 640pm passed and no sight of Peng , I started to get panic as Im unsure what had happened and did Peng get lost somewheret? However, I have faith in Peng as she is the more street-smart type.. Finally, Peng appeared.. with a very pale and pained look .. Peng said, alot of trains were cancelled and I was shocked n panicked again. However, the smarter gal told me she bought our tickets that depart to Zurich ( which will be a 2 hours plus ride then we will take the next connecting train to Bern. Never will one expect that we will take a wholesome 12 hours ride which we could just reach with a 3.5hours ride.

Finally reached Bern station.. and it was already 1.02am ( Gosh.. yes.. we were too tired and hungry and it was drizzling).. gosh...how bad can that be when I told Peng that I did not print out the map of our hotel.. Arghzz.. thats because Missy read reviews and all the guests said its just minutes walk and we will see our hotel. Never did I expect that we will reach that late in the freezing, chilly night... =x

Luckily, we met into a nice young guy ( and good that he can speak good English) .. phew.. we managed to reached our hotel but it was already 130am. I vividly remembered that my poor arms were aching badly with all the rushing and lugging of luggages. The Kiasu and Kiasi me.. brought everything , including muscle ache cream.. and both of us smelled very ah mahs ( old grannies with strong ointment smell) thereafter . Hahahha =P

Ending this post with a heavy and hearty breakfast on the very next day=D

Nice breakfast place at our Hotel =D