For the next 2 weeks, Soraya Adventures will follow our friendly, warm hearted and free spirited guest blogger, Iria (a Spanish Londoner), as she embarks on her unplanned and impromptu travels.
Meet Iria!
Sometimes you meet people in life who become your extended family, you go 10 years without seeing them, and when they tell you they're in Europe from China for 4 days... you say "F*** IT!", jump on a plane, rent a car and let a new adventure unfold. Isn't this how every road trip album starts?
This was our first time in Switzerland and we arrived in Lausanne to this madness. What was this Game of Thrones marching band?!? Turns out we landed straight into Carnival preparations and were experiencing the phenomenon of Guggenmusik. Amazing.
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After a quick lunch and a stroll around town, we started the drive through the beautiful region of Interlaken to the epic ski village of Wengen, where the annual Lauberhorn Ski World Cup was taking place.
While visiting Wengen, another dear friend I hadn't seen in years, offered us to stay with her family at their gorgeous chalet. Human connection is priceless <3
Here's the gang outside the house:
We almost missed one of my favourite places of the whole trip. There I was, focusing on getting through the winding mountain roads without causing a Swiss pile-up, and Gengen shouts "There's a mother****ing castle in the middle of a mother****ing lake!" so off we veered. We found this beautiful village, Iseltwald, with wooden houses and the most incredible lake that reflected the Alps on one side and was home to the setting sun on the other. Bliss. I could have stayed there forever.
Incidentally, we couldn't figure out how to get to the castle, but mother nature trumps man-made feats anytime.
Here, we enjoyed those special moments of stillness and serenity...
Swinin'Ciccioli funeral style alla fine dell'Alta Badia Gran Risa Dolomites Let's rock bollicine party! Gran serata! - - #Cicciolimusic - - #skiworldcup #altabadia #audifisskiworldcup2017 #partytime #livegig #jobforfun (presso Gran Risa)
Smoking the official mascot of the FIS Ski World Championship 2003 in St. Moritz, Switzerland #skiworldcup #skiworldcup2019 #stmoritz #switzerland #logodesign #mascot #mascotdesign by Ian David Marsden - www.marsdenillustration.com https://www.instagram.com/p/B6NuFzBnRP6/?igshid=1pp927weg5c6w
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