My days in SLC
Hey I really enjoy my time here in Salt Lake City.
Yesterday I finally arrived around 10 o'clock in Salt Lake City and the first thing I did was to look for my accommodation. Yet everything worked out well and after 20 minutes I already arrived at the motel. Yet it was too early to check in ... and I was looking forward to get a shower for I was travelling since two days, yet I had to wait until the afternoon.
According to the motel manager and my lonely planet ... I had to check first Temple Square. Temple Square is a small area downtown Salt Lake City with impressive churches and buildings of the Mormons ... Salt Lake City's importance to the Mormons is comparable to Rome for the catholics. Thus I entered Temple Square and as soon as I entered I got invited for a discovery tour led by missionars of this church. Was kind of weird, they were always talking about their beliefings and made lots of advertisement for their church ... yet the buildings were nice and I still got some points about their religion.
Later on I visited the local city park and climbed part of the mountain right behind the city. The capitol and a nice residential area are located there. I had the opportunity to take some pictures and also to discover Salt Lake ... a big lake that gave its name to the city.
Afterwards it was time to get back to the motel and I really enjoyed to take a shower :)
At night I did a short discovery trip to the university (really beautiful ... a nice place to study) ... had some good food at a restaurant (a tasty buffet for $10.25) and later on I went to the movies ... and guess ... I met some Swiss girls, I couldn't believe it ... the first Swiss since I am in North America ... and I met them at the red light asking for directions. Yep ... the world seems to be small sometimes ...
We saw Lake House ... not too bad but kind of confusing ... yet besides the movie I enjoyed to talk Swiss german to some guys ;) After the movie the two Swiss women couldn't get back to their motel, for the public transportation wasn't working anymore (too late) and we couldn't figure out the number of a taxi company (a weird guy tried to help us ... but he seemed to know nothing). I then got a crazy idea and just asked a young couple if they could offer a ride to the other Swiss guys. Everybody seemed a bit confused first (by my action), yet it worked out ... and everybody (including me, ok I my motel was so close I could walk easily) got a free ride from some nice local people. That was really cute!
The next day I went back to the university area, checked the olympic park (nice arena) and spent some time at university again. On the way back I went again to the library, changed reservations for my hostel in San Francisco (the hostel at Fisher's Wharf seems to be located in a much better neighborhood according to the Swiss people I met the night before) and I updated my blog (right now).
Later on I will bring my luggage to the bus station, will have a look on the Arts festival and get some food before I finally will take the bus at 10:30 pm to head towards Reno.
Cu again in Reno ... an good luck for the Swiss Soccer Team ... I hope to see the game too!!!
Yesterday I finally arrived around 10 o'clock in Salt Lake City and the first thing I did was to look for my accommodation. Yet everything worked out well and after 20 minutes I already arrived at the motel. Yet it was too early to check in ... and I was looking forward to get a shower for I was travelling since two days, yet I had to wait until the afternoon.
According to the motel manager and my lonely planet ... I had to check first Temple Square. Temple Square is a small area downtown Salt Lake City with impressive churches and buildings of the Mormons ... Salt Lake City's importance to the Mormons is comparable to Rome for the catholics. Thus I entered Temple Square and as soon as I entered I got invited for a discovery tour led by missionars of this church. Was kind of weird, they were always talking about their beliefings and made lots of advertisement for their church ... yet the buildings were nice and I still got some points about their religion.
Later on I visited the local city park and climbed part of the mountain right behind the city. The capitol and a nice residential area are located there. I had the opportunity to take some pictures and also to discover Salt Lake ... a big lake that gave its name to the city.
Afterwards it was time to get back to the motel and I really enjoyed to take a shower :)
At night I did a short discovery trip to the university (really beautiful ... a nice place to study) ... had some good food at a restaurant (a tasty buffet for $10.25) and later on I went to the movies ... and guess ... I met some Swiss girls, I couldn't believe it ... the first Swiss since I am in North America ... and I met them at the red light asking for directions. Yep ... the world seems to be small sometimes ...
We saw Lake House ... not too bad but kind of confusing ... yet besides the movie I enjoyed to talk Swiss german to some guys ;) After the movie the two Swiss women couldn't get back to their motel, for the public transportation wasn't working anymore (too late) and we couldn't figure out the number of a taxi company (a weird guy tried to help us ... but he seemed to know nothing). I then got a crazy idea and just asked a young couple if they could offer a ride to the other Swiss guys. Everybody seemed a bit confused first (by my action), yet it worked out ... and everybody (including me, ok I my motel was so close I could walk easily) got a free ride from some nice local people. That was really cute!
The next day I went back to the university area, checked the olympic park (nice arena) and spent some time at university again. On the way back I went again to the library, changed reservations for my hostel in San Francisco (the hostel at Fisher's Wharf seems to be located in a much better neighborhood according to the Swiss people I met the night before) and I updated my blog (right now).
Later on I will bring my luggage to the bus station, will have a look on the Arts festival and get some food before I finally will take the bus at 10:30 pm to head towards Reno.
Cu again in Reno ... an good luck for the Swiss Soccer Team ... I hope to see the game too!!!
posted by Alain at 16:43
2 Comments:
Hi Alain,
Really cool to hear from u and to read ur stories about everything... sounds like "le guide du routard"!!!
Keep running around and visiting the US, that must be a really nice trip, so improving ur mind... Lucky swiss guy!
(Hmmmm.. The Swiss team is pretty lucky too..; the r gonna defeat Korea 1 to 0)
hey dude!!....woow so good to see your travel bloggings..you know i'll consult your notes before travel to these cities in future:)
have (fun)x3 trip!!
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