Day Nine-Ten

We spend the remaining days of holiday meeting up with the other erasmus students, drinking beer, playing aerobie and hacky sack. Hiromi and I take long walks together and discover the little streets and alleyways of Lucerne.
On Saturday Hiromi, Ben, mariann, Anna (German student) and myself walk up to Gutsch (a seasonal hotel now empty) and into the pine forrest. About 300 meters in is a designated fire site. We build a fire and watch as the light fades and the stars come out, the forrest is dark and dense the sky a brilliant blue, you can't see anything beyond the fire. We drink beer and tell stories, come home smelling of fire.
On sunday we walk around the old town, up the old defensive wall and eventually to one of Lucernes attractions, Bertel Thorvaldsens Lion monument, a tribute to the Suisse Guards that fell during the French revolution defending Marie Antoinette. Its a beautiful sculpture carved into a sandstone cliff sat on a large pond, a wounded lion lies dying on the Suisse shield.
With no work to do and little purpose the week passes slowly, which is great, everyday offers something new to discover, and I still feel there is so much left to uncover.