A trip to Fribourg

As I've said many times before, Sunday's in Switzerland are fairly quiet. We hadn't realised this until we made the trip to Fribourg. An hour and a half on the train and we were in the typically Swiss looking city wondering where everyone was. We didn't let the emptiness deter us as we walked through the quiet streets exploring. We found the main street which is where most of the people were that were actually out on a Sunday. Mind you, there still wasn't that many people out. 

We came across this. I thought it was a street performer at first until I noticed that there was no upturned hat waiting for peoples loose change. No one would do that for free. I examined it further with caution, half expecting it to come alive and scare the bejeebus out of me and noticed a build up of algae in the shoes from the water. That wasn't a real person, although statues still creep me out.

A rather fancy McDonald's.

We couldn't resist walking up these stairs to have a peak in the quiet little alleyway. I did a google translation of the sign and I'm not sure that it's right because it sounds rather strange. "The quotes peas lost the original". If anyone can give me a more accurate translation it would be much appreciated.

Up on the window ledge was a statue of a man slaying a demon. Gruesome!

Secret garden?

The city has many hills so there were these great staircases all over the place. 

Beautiful weather!

I love the amount of great street art to be found in Switzerland. When we came here I was expecting to see a super-clean, regimented country but I was pleasantly surprised to see the amount of free expression in the streets.

Fountains of drinkable water everywhere. I wouldn't be worried about lack of drinking water in Switzerland. The water is so beautiful and oh-so-cold.

A nice, lazy Sunday lunch in a beautiful location. Beautiful, warm goats cheese, crouton salad with caramelised onion. Très bon!

After a surprisingly, extremely tasty lunch we walked around some more and discovered this sports ground where a local football match was happening. (Sorry all of your Aussies - I've started calling Soccer - Football)

A nice sit down with a beer in hand to watch the match.

After we watched the home team beat the visitors in the football we stumbled upon this great little Funiculaire (Funicular). It was too cute and a novelty to pass up a ride on it. We were generously helped by the operator with getting our tickets for a ride up the side of the mountain to the upper part of town.

Got to love when you spot a piece of well known street art. This piece by Invader.

Ahh I love a giant pretzel!

DOUBLE-DECKER TRAIN!

After a nice, quiet day of exploring a lovely Swiss city, we headed back home. The trip back to Lausanne is beautiful when you spot Lake Geneva and the surrounding mountains from the train. A beautiful sunny afternoon makes it even more spectacular.

The beautiful vineyards. 

Train travel is great in Switzerland. They are always on time, extremely comfortable, somewhat expensive compared to Brisbane but very worth the price considering the punctuality and the spectacular scenery they pass by. I don't think I will ever get sick of exploring this beautiful country.