Visiting Firenze and Lucca for a day each in May 2008 and staying with my buddy in Firenze.

Riding the train to Antwerp, crashing at Pieter's apartment, partying with travbuddies, strolling in Antwerp and Brussels.

Couchsurfing in Konstanz, crazy party in a dorm, cool first barbecue of the season and roaming around old-town in Konstanz!

On the way back from Dusseldorf, stopped shortly to see the Dom in Koeln, and meet up with a friend in Frankfurt.

After all the hassle getting a schengen visa... got me train tickets and rode up to Dusseldorf for Lauro's "Blonde" meetup, to see about 50 other coool travbuddies!

Went to Geneva for a day to watch Korn live at Arena.

Day trek to Hoch Ybrig in Feb 2008.

A snow trek into the mountains around Rothenthurm, Biberegg in Feb 2008.

Snow-shoes trek from Nestel to Tanzboden in Jan 08, and down to Ebnat Kappel.

A day hike with snow shoes around the area of Arvenbuehl (St. Gallen, Switzerland).