Switzeland Pictures


The day was relaxing and slow paced, instead of our regular early morning and rush out of the city. So relaxing in fact, Rana, stayed at the hotel and slept a good part of the day. I did manage to get him out to for a little bit of sightseeing and lots of shopping. We mostly windowed shopped because we could not bring ourselves to pay Switzerland’s tourists prices. After all, Rana and I have already done majority of our shopping for ourselves and our families back at Interlaken. We bought cow bells for everyone because we felt it was one of things that will best remind us of the sights and sounds of our bike tour in the countryside. The clanking sounds of a clumsy metal cow bell instantly brings back the memory of us pedaling up and down swelling countryside hills, us alone with the open space, clean air, nothing but the smells of fresh grass and sounds of chirping birds and the occasional mooing cows. Cool breezes brushed against my skin and through my free flowing hair as I cruised leisurely on my bike. Nothing blocked our views, we were on top of the world and the air was so clear we could see off into eternity. There were no other people around and we felt the world was made just for us. No skyscraper in sight, but only clusters of grazing cows, on green undulating hills, that appeared to be the only occupiers of this beautiful land. Clank, clank ahhhh what a beautiful sound.


Einstein’s home was embedded within the building along the shopping district. It was a small narrow home comprised of three floors. It was nothing elaborate; however the décor was left alone as Einstein had left it when he traveled to the United States. His home was very modest and very common. Nothing close to what I had imagined a home of a universal and timeless genus would be like. This reminded me that it does not require much to be able to accomplish great things in this world. Rana was proud to see a Garmin GPS forever linked and encased within Albert Einstein’s home as a demonstration of some of the incredible things accomplished in the world all thanks to the breakthroughs and theoretical contributions made by Mr. M-C-Squared.

It rained sparsely throughout the but I didn’t let it stop me from walking all over town. The art museum was closed on Saturdays and Sundays. The botanical gardens was huge which included seven large green houses filled with plants of all sort of different shapes and sizes from different regions of the world. Best of all, admission was free! For the rest of the day, I continued to scope out any shops I could have possibly missed from my first rounds and I eventually retired back at the hotel. As I walked through the door of my hotel lobby the drizzling rain began to pour down thundering and lightening. Perfect timing.