Showing posts with label Switzerland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Switzerland. Show all posts

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Bike season is over

From Bike Pictures

(English below)

La temporada de bicicleta de invierno oficialmente terminó. No volveré a andar en bicicleta hasta después del 26 de Abril. La razón? Mañana les cuento :-)

Pero en resumen, fue interesantísimo sacar la bicicleta durante estos meses de invierno. Fue un tiempo lleno de nuevas experiencias. Primero, porque por primera vez salí a hacer deporte a temperaturas por debajo del punto de congelación. En algunas ocasiones, la temperatura llegó a -15 grados centígrados, condición a la que me acostumbré poco a poco. Segundo, porque fue impresionante a veces llegar de vuelta a la casa con la bicicleta cubierta de nieve y la ropa repleta de escarcha! Y por último, a pesar de haber andado por caminos hechos pistas de hielo, no me caí! (Aunque en más de una ocasión, la bicicleta se me hacía horrible y la vi fea). Con la bicielta logré descubrir lugares impresionantes en Suiza, y logré disfrutar de increíbles paisajes de invierno, como pudieron ver en las fotos.

En resumen:

Tiempo total: 46 horas, 32 minutos.
Calorías: 33,868.
Kilómetros: 565.3.
Velocidad máxima: 70.3 km/h.

From Bike Pictures


Winter mountain biking season is officially over! I won't ride my bike anymore until after April 26. Why? I'll tell you tomorrow :-)

In summary, it was extremely interesting to ride my bike during these winter months. It was a time loaded with new experiences. First, it was the first time that I practiced sports at temperatures below the freezing point. At times it got even below -15C. Secondly, it was impressive for me to return home with the bike full of snow and my clothing covered with frost. And lastly, even though sometimes I rode through roads that were literally pure ice, I never fell (though many times the bike moved awfully and skid horribly!) With my mountain bike I got to discover spectacular places in Switzerland, and I enjoyed impressive winter scenes, as you could see from the pictures I posted.
From Bike Pictures


To end, I'll like to share with you some of the statistics for these months:

Total time: 46 hours, 32 minutes.
Calories: 33,868.
Kilometers: 565.3.
Max speed: 70.3 km/h.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Adee!

One of the worst and inevitable characteristics of traveling is that the end is always sad. I have never met someone that said "I am so happy that my vacations ended!"

But vacations must end, and today it is my turn to say goodbye...

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Saturday, January 26, 2008

Switzerland's prettiest barroque city

Solothurn advertises itself as the prettiest barroque city from Switzerland. Well, I'm not an expert on barroque cities to judge that, but Solothurn managed to call my attention.

The history of Solothurn dates back to the year 14 - 37 AD, with the foundation of the celtic Salodurum, around the time when Tiberius was the emperor of the Roman Empire. That means that across almost 1000 years, what today is Solothurn is heavily influenced with the architecture of several epoques, something that is quite unique for such a small place. And the fact that this place has managed to survive almost 1.000 years is simply fantastic!...

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Monday, January 21, 2008

Buongiorno Lugano!

Going to Lugano from Zurich means crossing the country from north to south. Even though the journey takes almost 3 hours to complete, and that it costs CHF 118, I wanted to see and meet the Italian part of Switzerland. I also was a little bit intrigued: was the Italian Switzerland just as the Italy I knew? Just because they speak the same language doesn’t mean they are equal, but they must share some of the culture, shouldn’t they?...

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