Barefoot Pilgrimage & the "poo choo"

This week has been quite the eventful week! Wednesday we visited the town of Fribourg. And if we wanna get technical I was actually an hour behind the group because I couldn't find my train pass. By the time I realized it was missing I had ten minutes until the train came. (and just for reference it's about a fifteen minute walk from our hotel to the train station that is on a 70 degree incline.) So as you can imagine I was bookin it. I made it back to the train station just in time to see it pull away.boo...oh well I was able to catch the next one with a friend and didn't even miss anything. When we got there we toured around a bit, And when I say tour around, I mean under the cover of porches and umbrellas because it was dumping rain. (If you were wondering before why Switzerland is so green, well I guess the secrets out now. Regardless of the weather it's still beautiful) Anywho...we get to this station that smells like, well...$h!t. And that's because it was literally run off of raw human sewage. I'll spare you the rest of the dirty details but it's adoringly refered to the "poo choo." The Swiss are some pretty inventive people huh?

We walked through town to a scary puppet museum which if you've ever seen the feature length film Dead Silence you know what I'm talking about. It was actually very interesting and the tour guide let us play on the puppet stage so overall I gave it a solid A. (note-I still think marionette puppets are scary as hell) Next Bob took us to the top of the ramparts of the St. James Pilgrimage. He described to us how in the middle ages thousands of people would walk this path to Spain as a religious journey or as a way to repent for ones sins. And if you really wanted it to count for something you had to suffer in some way ie-carrying a large boulder. So we decided to walk it barefoot...in the pouring rain...all the way to the cathedral, and the dean of the business school even joined in ha! It was actually pretty fun. We all cleaned our feet in the fountain next to the cathedral...which I'm hoping no ones tries to drink out of. The cathedral was absolutely beautiful with a lookout that is 360 stairs to get to the top..needless to say my quads were a little sore the next morning. In spite of the rain it's been one of the funnest days so far.