1956 first foreign travels

Switzerland and France

In the spring vacation my best friend and I went by train to Waldshut close to the border of Germany and Switzerland. We stayed at an Aunt of my friend. We took our bicycles along for local trips. One of this trips took us to Zuerich in Switzerland. My first trip to a foreign country. This was just a day trip we spend all our pennies on chocolate because then it was so much cheaper in Switzerland as in Germany.
Another memorable incident of this trip was our present to our host. We had no money but felt we needed to leave some gift for the hospitality of our hosts. We came across a big privat garden with many flowers. We decided they had enough and would notice a few flowers missing, therefore we proceeded to cut 2 armfulls of flowers and proudly presented them to our hosts, they loved them and we were welcomed to visit anytime we felt like it.