Bern to Luzern

The morning was bright and sunny....





And the clock is animated....


Amusingly so, the red guy p top chimes the bells


But the 'child eater of Bern' is one conundrum nowadays, no one knows wny it is here... Except as a political warning they think... Against someone at the time...





It was just efore lunch and all the cafe's were on the ready - people eat out A LOT in Switzerland.


Below is the old bear pit, they have kept bears in Berne for hundreds of years, Bärren in German is Bears, and they think that's where the city name is from... They are not nice places to keep bears anymore... Now we know so much better. The only time when Bern had no bears is when Napoleon took them away for 12 years and moved them to Paris.



Restaurant below is where I stuffed my face with rösti last night...


Now the bears have a park to wander through and can swim in part of the river. Much nicer.


Pretty town!


Bear town.


It is 1 hour on the express train to Luzern.... Not long.
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Luzern, or Lucerne in French, is on the way to Zürich, kinda, sorta, so instead of Neuchâtel, on the advice on that woman on the plane 2 weeks ago, here we are...


The bridge below is the defining image of the town.


But much of the rest of it is nice too! Only problem is it had clouded over since I left Bern.


Pic below needs cropped but look how close we re to the mountains still...





Luzern has a an old town centre of course... Dating ack nearly a thousand years.








The van below is far more recent.





The Swiss are said to be staunchly Caolic, but sex shops are here, and the admission age is 15 (!) according to the signage - they are not hidden, you see them next door to gift shops - so hardly prudish...





I quite liked Luzern.


Luzern on Lake Luzern.











The old glass below is authentic lookimg, they could not make flat glass then, but I wonder if they make fake old glass now, it looks rather un-worn.


Oh well, off to Zürich now and then. 2 bus 2 train round trip from there out to get my suitcase back that I left weeks ago at the hotel ner the airport, that will take a couple of hours I think! Go, go, go these last few days :)
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Location:Luzern, Switzerland.