Sunday, October 18, 2009

Vacation - day 1

We are taking a week's vacation by driving around Europe - Clark Griswald style. We are doing 4 non-German countries in 7 days.

Day one was a drive from home to the city of Bern, Switzerland. (We go through Austria to get there.) The idea was to have lunch in Bern and then end up in Geneva in the evening.

We had more traffic than expected and did not get to Bern until about 3pm which cut our sight seeing short. Bern is named after the first animal killed there (the bear) and bears are the city symbol. They even have a huge bear den for visitors.

We had lunch including Rosti and Fondue (later we drove through the town of Gruyere which was very neat.)


The weather was terrible. We had driving rain with intermittent wet snow and ice. The rain stopped long enough for us to take a few pictures in the town center.


The kids seemed to be bored by the drive along lake Geneva with the mountains rising up along the lake. Daphne seemed to like the whole day - likely a ploy to allow future trips outside of Germany.
We arrived tonight in Geneva safe and sound ready to explore tomorrow (Sunday).

1 comment:

  1. What amazing pictures! The little that I've travelled through Europe - I have to say that Geneva is one of the most wonderful places I've visited. Have a terrific time! p.s. A lot of its specialness probably had to do with the self induced cheese fondue coma I was in throughout the entire trip :-)

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