Having checked the forecast last night, I knew today was supposed to be a rainy one. I decided it would be a good day to hit the museums and some giant Imax theatre that was across the lake.
Before leaving the hostel, i had a peak around looking for information about the museums and checked if perhaps there were some coupons or discounts I could use with my Eurail pass because the admission to this huge museum, apparently was a bit pricey.
Well! After I peaked here and there, turns out that big museum i was hoping to check out was the Museum of Transportation! Boring...
Don't get me wrong, all museums are interesting in their own way, but I was hoping to look at more than just transportation stuff. I wanted to check out lots of things!
When I had first arrived in Lucerne and came out of the train station I had noticed that across the street was the KKL Lucerne Museum of Arts. So, I changed my plan and decided to head that way instead.
The building was very beautiful in a modern and architectural way. It was a large, all glass building with part of it jutting out and held up by two large pillars, between the pillars - a large round water fountain.
When inside, I found that the museum was only one level of the building on level K. I jumped in the elevator and made my way upstairs, bought a ticket and to my surprise, I had to put my purse in a locker.
I grabbed my phone and iPod, putting on some RJD2, Emancipator and Röyskopp for a mellow cruise around the museum. As I head through the glass door, I took a right into the first room where I stood looking at photography that some woman took of her covered in mud attempting to blend into a large tree.
Okay....
I keep walking...
Room 2 is full of projectors and televisions showing videos. One video, literally a surveillance tape of a restaurant kitchen, another a girl painting on the bones in her arm, on her arm (then it was start over and repeat).
By this point, I'm recalling an article I had read last night that my friend ha posted on Facebook. It was about how the author, Glen Coco, was sick of pretending, he just didn't "get" art. After attending many, many art shows in his career he thought it was hilarious that we all stand there, staring at an art piece trying to find some greater meaning to it when really your looking at a potted plant on a post.
So I'm walking through this museum, with this article in mind just asking myself "what is considered art?" and "why are these people famous and considered true professional artists when I could've taken the same picture with my iPhone?" On that note, I probably could've taken a better picture on my iPhone -- look at me, I'm an artist! Even based on the many principles of design I've learned over the years, some of this "art" was really just crap.
Please, let's do an experiment. Let's take these 'works of art' and tell these artists to pretend they are students for a day. Have them present in front of my teachers and then sit back and watch as they get torn apart for work that looks like a child got a hold of a disposable camera.
... And really, a surveillance video in a restaurant kitchen? Common. If that's all it took, security guards would be raking in the cash!
I walked around the museum for about an hour or so, until I got to the last room - tables with table cloths that had crayon drawings on them.
I'm done.
To put it bluntly and with some sort of comedy to it: this museum was wack! Hahahaha
Okay, I promise, I'll never say wack again. That felt weird coming from me. Lol
Anyways, I ended up heading out of the museum with a whole day ahead of me and suddenly blue skies! I decided it would be nice to just walk around town for a few hours, see where life would take me.
Well it took me to H&M. Dammit. Soooo many cute clothessss!!! Why was H&M America not as cool as it was here??! After about a solid 30-40mins, I ended up finding a few really, really unique finds and was absolutely thrilled about them! Bring on that cruise! This girl's got a brand new wardrobe! (okay well not a whole wardrobe.. But still!)
After browsing around a little longer I decided to grab a sandwich at a neat little place called Bachmans and then grabbing a small ice cream and walked along the lake.
It turned out to be, really, quite a beautiful day! This may sound funny, but it was like Lucerne was in high definition. The air was crystal clear, the lake so clean, the sky so, so blue, snow-covered mountains in the distance but still reflecting onto the lake and tons of swans hanging out by the shore. Everything was so saturated in natural colors. It was extraordinary.
It was around 5 when I decided to head back to the hostel. I received a message before from that ropes course instructor Kevin, who invited me out for a casual drink by the train station. I thought it would be a nice way to learn a little more about the city and a good way to end Switzerland. So we planned to meet at 8 at the large archway that sits in front of the main station.
I got back to the hostel, read a book for a while, just chilled out, then headed over to meet him.
When I arrived, he greeted me in typical European fashion with a cheek-to-cheek kiss on both sides and then we went into the station to buy two beers at the store.
With beer in hand, we walked along the lake to the park that was right by my hostel and parked it on a bench. Our conversations were pretty hilarious, most involving a lot of hand gestures to help with the German-to-English language barrier.
He had told me that the indoor skate ramp his friends built was right around the corner, to which I thought would be fun to go see! We walk about 5minutes to a garage right beside he train station and as soon as we get close I can hear the sound of skateboards zipping back and forth on a ramp.
The place was really cool! It was a small ramp from wall to wall, with pipes along the edges to grind on. There were drawings all over the walls and music blasting. I met a bunch of locals who showed off their skills while sitting on the above landing with my beer and enjoyed some conversation with one of the guys that had built the place and competes with Kevin. He had to have been like 45 and he skated so well, almost better than the rest of them that we're there! It kind of made me laugh that he was still killin it at his age! Good for him!
We hung out there for about a half hour before making our way to a nearby bar in a hotel on the other side of the train station. It's strange that they play so much American music at the bars, restaurants and shops in Europe. I've noticed it everywhere I have gone. It almost ruins the experience a little bit. It's hard to emerge yourself in a culture when an American top 40 song is playing in the background.
We had a few drinks and danced, a few of Kevin's friends also there and socialising, then he very kindly walked me back to my hostel around 1am where I immediately crashed out with my alarm set for 6am!
Tomorrow: I head to Milano!! :)
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