visits in communal cultures.
-stayed with a delightful gay couple from Canada in Geneva, Switzerland; some of the architecture reminded him of Paris; met up with a nice man he knew from online, a wealthy man, in Montreux; near Lausanne, stayed in Renens with a Peace Corps friend; scheduled, regimented, use of an apartment building's washing machine; supermarkets closed on Sundays except those run by foreigners; awareness of resources; the way other people live; in Bern, stayed in a hostel, and visited the Swiss parliament building, which required the holding of passports; in Basel, visited with someone who had stayed with Jay in San Francisco; continued enjoyable time with visit to Servas.org host in Zürich -off the train to walk for a few hours in the capital Vaduv, Liechtenstein; castle, wooden stairway on a mountain -in Salzburg, Austria, stayed with a couchsurfing.org host who lived across the street from Mozart's birthplace; Linz for a few hours; in Vienna, stayed with State Department friend; Peace Corps connections 47 minutes 07-12-21 debug comment |