HELLOOOO SWITZERLAND!!!

helllooo again and thanks for the great comments mands and bob

so i have just arrived in the pretty basel. it is warm and sunny and boy is my backpack far too heavy!!! cant believe im lugging around thermal pajamas, blowup pillow, gadgets and a sleeping bag around europe when i only need the stuff for africa = my back is feeling it!!! but all is good.

had a very relaxing time in luxembourg. as i said before, it definitely is not a party place at all, very beautiful like a fairytale city and also very romantic, but for a single backpacker, its not quite the place to be!!! i had a cool evening though with a funky english girl and we went out for a couple drinks. i say a couple cos as totally budget backpackers we were like 6.60 euro for vodka mixer?? what?? 4 euro for a shot??? so we settled for a pint of beer at 4.80 = cheapest we could get and it was great!! luxembourg is definitely the fine dining sort of place with only about 2 or 3 bars open in the whole of the capital city = crazy!! so go there with your romantic interest and you will love it.

and whats will all the hostels being totally full with school kids on school trips and families and little kids?? i wanted to say...hey you not a real backpackers so get "oot the hoose"!! my scottish coming through

got the train to basel today = all went ok. doing a day trip out to zurich tomorrow.

anyhoo, thats my news for now. will update on amsterdam later!