Brugg, Aargau

Freitag 5. Juni 2015

Another day in the new city...

Brugg is  a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau. Brugg is also the Swiss German word for bridge. We spent there few hours waiting for my gf´s sister from her final school test.. First look of this town didn´t impress me much. Near that school was normal business/industrial looking buildings.. Nothing special so far..

But then I heard that there´s an old town part and a long river called Aare is flowing through this old town.

Ok, I want to go there, now, please ! Soon we found a part of this old town. Cool ! Weather wasn´t so cool it was hot, about + 30 degrees, but I´m not complaining..

First look at the river Aare.. River Aare is 295 kilometres long, it rises in the great Aargletschers (Aare Glaciers) of the Bernese Alps, in the canton of Bern. It´s a long river, but when it´s flowing through the Brugg´s old town, it´s only about 10 meters wide.

That was funny sign and so today :-) We do not have wifi, talk to each other !

After walking and after this school test was finished, we all went to a Migros restaurant for a lunch. New thing for me was that in this restaurant you will take a plate and choose what kind of food you would like to eat, take as much you want, and after that you will pay for the weight of this food. I liked that idea.. Of course there was also normal meals from the menu. After lunch we bought some drinks and went to a park to sit on the grass for a few hours. Relaxatiooooon !

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Looking for the kesämökki-feeling

Sonntag 31. Mai 2015

Looking for the kesämökki-feeling

Today I got this feeling that I would like to walk, and also my girlfriend told me that "honey, you could go for a walk if you want". Ok, fine, I will go, and a little bit longer than normal, tschüss !.

I really like to walk, by walking you can see new places and if you will see something interesting and you would like to stop and take a picture, that´s easy, with the car it´s not so simple. Minus point is that walking is very slowly way to go, so that´s actually one reason why I ordered a bicycle from a local shop few days ago, I will get it on thursday, hopefully. Fuji Absolute 1.1. Why this bike ? I don´t know, this shop was near and I looked only their bikes. I didn´t want any mountain bikes with thick wheels or racing bikes with carbon fiber bodies and E-bikes, like also racing bikes are crazy expensive, so that was something from the middle, and cheap. I also like how it looks, simple and clean, like me :-). With a bike I can go much faster and make longer trips. I can´t wait to drive up to the hills for the views and then roll back down. Yes mom ! I also bought the helmet ;-) actually helmet was free of charge like the ringing bell.

Ok, back to the walking.. Weather was very nice, warm, maybe about +25 degrees. A little bit too bright for a photography, but perfect for to burn my skin, and now I was smarter than before, I put sun cream. Did you know that in Switzerland there is a place called "Hard" ? Well now you know.. It´s between Strengelbach and Brittnau... These areas of Switzerland are a little bit similar than countrysides in Finland, maybe the biggest difference in my eyes are houses and buildings. In this area, I can´t get that real "kesämökki"-feeling, because there´s no lakes. But this is so peaceful place to walk around, at least on sundays.

Grüezi !

Of course there´s also "modern"-looking houses and living areas, but you won´t forget that you are in a countryside, because cows are making sounds (and smells) in your back yard :-) If I´m telling the truth, they weren´t smelling that much..

The best "kesämökki"-feeling came, when I walked in to the forest. You really couldn´t say that are you in Finland or in some other country. Also birds were singing the same songs than in Finland.

Next views are one of my favourites. Before I knew anything about Switzerland, I thought that there will be lots of these kind of views, and I was right, that´s very much similar as I pictured in my mind how it could be.

After almost two hours walking, I finally came back to the "city" area.. Still few kilometers to go, and I will be back home. I have Nokia Here Maps in my Nokia 1520, and I downloaded the whole map of Switzerland to my phone, so I can use it in offline mode without any costs. Very useful for me because I have Finnish Saunalahti prepaid in use. And I also noticed few times that I don´t have a phone signal.. But GPS was working all the time. I´m also using Sports Tracker software, which is writing my route to the map, and I can also see how long I walked and how fast and so on, but Sports Tracker needs data for this map, so if I didn´t have a signal, I couldn´t see the map.

So, how did I do this time ?

11.82 km

2h 5min

Average speed 5.7km/h

I didn´t burn much of calories, because I´m walking so slowly, but the feeling after was great ! And Ididn´t burn my skin..

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