Welcome to one more episode of "the round of Europe with a motorcycle".
This is episode 50... Switzerland
First of all I would like to appologize for not uploading videos for the last month
if you follow the trip on Facebook as well you should hear that my laptop was stollen...
And for the time being I borrowed an older laptop, and that means it's going to take some time to edit the vids.
Unfortunately the Youtube channel is a little bit behind, but make sure you are subscribed to the channel,
because I am going to try to upload as much episodes as possible so you guys can catch up.
Let's continue with episode 50 - Switzerland!
So where should I start from...
First I want to say that all of you that are getting bored of the road sections in my vids,
you can skip this video right away. Because in Switzerland everything is the road.
One of the most important sightseeing of the country are the Alps and the Alpine passes...
so for the next 2 videos that are going to be about Switzerland you guys are going to see a lot
of road sections around the country, mountains, corners, bends and much more!
The Swiss Alps are amazingly beautiful because they are not very touristic, and they are still wild!
Once we entered the country with Nektarios we headed right away to Klaussenpass.
There are narrow roads, in some sections the roadsurface is very bad, no coffewhops and museums...
Malaka , look at the size of those cows! Too much food!
So the Alps are authentic, wild and natural!
On some of the passes you can still find a small shop for a coffee on the top of the pass, but thats it!
We left Klaussenpass to Zurich, where Nektarios and his landlord Monika and Taumir hosted me at their place.
And I want to thank them a lot for this! I had the chance to rest for a few days and see Zurich.
and I have to admit that Zurich is not as gorgeous as it's citizens support to be.
The people of Zurich have the impression that they live in the best, and most beautiful city of Europe,
Which is not true in my opinion.
I walked around in Zurich and the fact is that I have seen way better cities...
So take a sample of Zurich to see by yourself...
This slippers cost 90 francs, which means is about €80.
I am in the dark side of Zurich....
Langstrasse.... Sex, drugs and Rock 'n' Roll
I had the chance to make a day trip to Schaffhausen, where I visited the gorgeous fortress of the town.
Schaffhousen is a small beautiful town.
I am at the castle of the town.
This castle looks like an arena.. I walked all the way around to the main gate and now I am in the arena!
Schaffhausen is located right on the border of Switzerland and Germany...
... and river Rhine is passing through the town.
I am about 10km away from Schaffhausen, and here are the Rhine Falls.
What I didn't really like in Switzerland is the people...
Off course not everybody is like this but most of the people give the impression of coldness.
They are not warm people.
Off course as I said not everybody is like that.
Monika and Taumir that hosted me to their place were very good and nice people.
and I was impressed by Monika because she was discusted by the Swiss people and she is Swiss herself..
She was trying to explain to me the mentality of the Swiss people.
In general they don't have any major problems, they do have a lot of money, and they don't have any serious troubles.
For example, the first page of a printed newspaper during the days I was there was
a motorcycle seat that reached 80 degrees.
And that was the first page of a PRINTED newspaper...
Thats a major problem... when is too hot and stuff like that.
Swiss people are always by the book, and they live in their own molds...
I got the impression that they don't have a life...
...they just exist, and they exist only to make money...
whatever you do in that country must be accompanied with a transaction.
Everything has to do with money and if you are in need of something probably you are screwed.
The speeding fines are way too expensive.
They drive very very slow for this reason and that can be too tiring...
what got me tired in Switzerland was not the fact that I couldn't find a place to wild camp, or the prices...
...what got me really tired was the fact that they drive very very slow... Too slow...
you can go 50km for a lot of kilometres... sometimes it jumps to 60 and then 50 again...
and the think is that they still have accidents in the streets..
they do have quite a lot of them, because they fall asleep while driving.
and those that are not getting sleep their eyes are most of the time on the km counter instead of the road...
so they do have accidents, but they are not deadly... because of the slow speeds.
Second time I have trouble with the rectifier... I am not sure if its totally busted...
I noticed that all the cables are getting broken because of electrolysis.
I do have a spear one...
but i will try to change all the connectors and see what will happen...
I cut all the cables and replace the connectors, because the older ones started to melt...
I tried this one as well.... and i think this one is not working..
I bought this from Poland for about €30....
But I will keep it to check it again...
Let's see...
So I can see its charging the battery again..
let's continue on our way!
I think I won't be able to finish the route I was planning for today...
So I will have to reach Sankt Moritz and find a place to camp...
Good morning from Sankt Moritz...
We have rain today....all day long...
Yesterday due to the problem I had with the rectifier I didn't make it to finish the route I planned.
It took me about 1,5 hours to fix the problem.... The cables were broken due to electrolysis...
... and by the time I find some connectors the time had passed...
So I found a camping place and pitched my tent right outside of Sankt Moritz town..
Today I woke up in a rainy situation here..
Well it was raining all night long as well to be honest..
So the plan is to move on today... I don't know the situation up on the Alpine passes..
As far as I know its raining all over the Alps...
So I will start moving and see what happens..
I am on San Bernardino pass.
Which is one of the most beautiful passes of Switzerland and its one of the top 100 roads that
somebody can visit in Europe!
On the top of Oberalp pass there is a lighthouse, which is the highest lighthouse of the world at 2046m
The lighthouse is here because from here is the start of Rhine river...
and the lighthouse is a replica of the one that used to be on the Rhine delta in Holland.
I knocked the door of the restaurant over there...
The restaurant is being owned by Manuel from Portugal and Herman from Argentina...
and I asked them if it was OK to pitch my tent behind the restaurant for tonight.
They said that there is no problem...
...But when I got on the bike to go there they called me and said that I could stay in this shed over here.
This is their warehouse...
So they told me that I could stay here because it is going to be raining tonight....
In Zurch, where the most of the money is you will see amazing cars...
Bucati, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porche...
All this powerful cars that you can hear them roar when they get out of a parking....
and once they are in the street......
they don't even put a second gear....
50!
30!
Until they are out of the city centre...
once they are out then they go 60!
The cars are crying.. I was feeling sorry for the engines...
Whats left to say....
It is a beautiful country but the people are so-so.
I ve seen better before.
In a huge percentage is the coldest nation that I've ever encountered.
Except Monica and Taumir, nobody approached me to be get to know better to be honest..
I was speaking to 1-2 persons per day.. In other countries I was getting to know 10-15
persons per day very easy... As soon as I stop somewhere I start to meet people..
On the next episode you can see the rest of the passes, Bern, Geneva and Basel...
... and the rest of the things I got to see in Switzerland...
You can leave a comment if you want to ask anything about the county...
If you want you can make some general questions regarding the trip and I will try to answer all of them
I will write the answer in the comments or if there are a lot of questions maybe there is going to be a Q&A video.
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