It’s time for a Throwback Thursday!
In the end of June this summer, we spent a week in Germany and Switzerland “warming up” before going to Australia. We visited Cologne and Bonn in Germany and Zurich in Switzerland. We arrived in Cologne on Monday morning. We stayed with Linnea’s friend Rosa, who was an au pair in Zurich at the same time as Linnea. We’ve kept in touch ever since and Rosa came to visit in Sweden last year as well. It was really fun hanging out and catching up!
We went sightseeing in both Cologne and Bonn, which used to be the capital of West Germany. In Bonn, we went to a Haribo store (apparently “bo” in Haribo stands for Bonn) and we also dined at a popular Peruvian restaurant with Rosa and her colleague Maria. We had a bunch of delicious tapas to share and it was a great experience, all though we were rolling out of there cause we had so much to eat!
On Thursday morning we caught the train to Cologne/Bonn Airport and got on the shortest flight either of us had ever been on, we were only in the air for about 1 h 10 min. Arriving in Zurich, Linnea was overwhelmed with memories coming back to the city that had been her home for one of the best years in her life. We made our way with the excellent public transport into town to meet up with a bunch of Linnea’s old friends. We stayed with three guys that are studying at ETH in Zurich; Djalma, Gerson and Mattia. The other friends also flew in from other countries; Alex and “the other” Linnea flew in from France and Emma hopped on a flight from the UK. We had all gathered for Züri Fäscht, which is a really big city festival happening only once every third year, last time was 2013 when Linnea was living in Zurich.
As you can imagine, we partied most of the weekend. Only stopped to crash a few hours at the apartment each night, otherwise we stayed outside and looked at all the crazy events Swiss people with an overflow of money had thought out. A part from partying we made some time on the Thursday afternoon and on Friday to go sightseeing. Since it was Gustav’s first visit to Zurich we visited all the best look out points and highlights.
On the Friday we also met up for lunch with Linnea’s old host family. She was a bit nervous seeing them after such a long time, but that feeling quickly disappeared after they started talking about what they had been up to. A funny surprise was that the host family actually were going to Australia in just a few weeks for vacation, so we promised to be in touch about that.
Late on the Sunday evening we arrived back at Arlanda Airport. We were delayed even before we went on the flight, so it was close to midnight when we finally saw Gustav’s parents that greeted us at the airport.