my solo trip to the swiss alps

Good morning, Switzerland! Already have these absolutely insane views, and I haven't even started hiking yet, so off to a strong start! It's currently the bank holiday weekend in August, so I planned a super last minute trip to go hiking because I missed it. I'm about to do more of a descent hike today, just because I haven't been elevation hiking in a long time, and I don't really have my hiking legs anymore, so I want to ensure I have the stamina to be hiking all three days I'm here. There's a really famous mountain hut on this trail, and then I'm going to come back up and do the ridgeline, and then hopefully hike down and go swimming in the lake. Ugh, I'm in love already. I swear, everywhere I turn is more beautiful than the last. This is absolutely stunning. We're going up there. The most scenic spot I've ever eaten a Clif Bar in my life. I've reached the peak mountain hut, and I just chilled, relaxed for a little bit, and now I'm going to begin my descent down to the lake so I can go for a little swim. The whole reason I actually came on this trip was A, I like to do at least one solo trip a year. I've been doing it for the past like four or so years, and I just think they're really fun and a good way to kind of reconnect with yourself, and the second reason was because I was kind of missing home. So I'm from Seattle, the mountains, the lakes, the nature is just absolutely stunning and it's something that you just really can't replicate unless you're in the mountains, and I live in London, which is a city, and it's flat. So I decided to book myself a little trip to Switzerland, which is a crazy thing that I'm able to do, and the third reason is it was a promotion gift to myself. I got a promotion at work, so I decided to go on a trip to celebrate, and so now I'm eating snacks in the Swiss Alps. This video does not do it justice. This is like steep and tiny and narrow and cliff-facey, but at least this is the view. It does not get better than this. It doesn't. for me to just like pop down and squat and read my book, so I'm just going to keep wandering. I was just kind of ditzying around, just going in between town and back at my Airbnb, looking at webcams, looking at cloud covers. It was like 1 p.m. and I hadn't done anything all day, so I was just like, you know what, I'm just going to go to Wasserin, which is where most of the hikes start, and then just see what I'm feeling. So I am actually going on a trail back to See Police, which is where I was yesterday. I'm taking a different way, so hopefully we'll get some different sights, and it already looks so different compared to yesterday. Very moody, and I'm very sore as well, so it'll be good to get my legs working again. Ah, and I'm already out of breath. Oh no. I promise this is when we cough sweat, but it's also raining. But this place is magical. It literally looks like a storybook. I'm ready. Not a soul in my sight Couldn't hear past the trees I was starting to forget ya And so I woke up this morning And I made my way back to the city we lived in It's been a while since you packed up Since you laid down for the world Like a part of your plans And I did just the same All night I come in a blank Same lake today, but sitting in a different spot. Went to one of the local mountain huts and got myself a local beer. And this is quite literally the mountain behind me, if you can remember from yesterday. I think the peak's like right up there. But it's actually pretty good. There are these kind of rocky islands within the lake. I'm just gonna hang out here for a little bit, read my book, eat some snacks before wandering back down. And ever since you left I've been bored I've been sitting on my words Like I'm waiting for you to reach right in and pull them out And ever since you left I've been chewing off my tongue Trying not to tell you wrong I'm not me since you left me In an unfortunate twist of events, I slipped and ate shit. Which I was a little bit concerned about because a doctor has told me I have really weak bones before. And although I take my calcium, I landed on an elbow that I've had a surgery on in the past. So I was worried I might have rebroken something, but I thought I'd check it out before hiking down. Bleeding like a faucet. And it doesn't really hurt too bad. It's definitely gonna be a deep bruise. And when I put my phone down to get the band-aids out, my phone slipped off the chair and the screen shattered through the screen protector. But that's fine. Life happens. I still had a really amazing day. So now I'm just gonna hike back to town and just take a chill for the rest of the night. I'll be a ghost. I'll always love you. Won't you come back to me? Come back to me. Come right back. Good morning from another cloudy day in Appenzell. Unfortunately, the cloud cover is even thicker and lower than it was yesterday. So I've kind of decided that I'm not gonna hike this morning. On the account of that, and then also I'm so sore. So instead, I think I'm just gonna pack up and spend the day in Zurich. And please ignore this like glow. That's because of the cracks in my phone screen. So ignore that. I did book an appointment at the Apple in Zurich to get my phone screen fixed. Because it's actually cheaper here in Zurich than it is in London, which is kind of surprising to me. I've been to Zurich before, so I've seen all the hot spots. So I'm just gonna kind of bop around. I don't really know what I'm gonna do. Go to chocolate shops. Yeah, who knows? But I'm gonna pack up and stretch and then catch the train in. Bye!