Monday, April 14

Bern - bear city





After days of raining, it was exceptionally sunny, beautiful a day. I thanked nature for being so polite to me:)
So I departed from Geneva to Bern to see and visit my friend. The train came on time and left on time. For early panicker myself afraid of being late at first. :o)

Train route travels along the lake, so do look marvelous the views of mountain and water together. I enjoyed two hours of wonder Switzerland. That I saw many houses, cows, horses and farm lands. Green, blue and white are colours to describe it.

Their train station is right in the centre. So, it was easy for me to wander off around. Location on bank of river made the design of Bern more beautiful as you can see whole streamling river around mountains.

I walked down to the old city centre with my friend, Bela. Bela explained why shopping streets were constructed under arcs and how the Confederation of Switzerland - Confoederatio Helvetica - CH was created etc many more.

I was amazed seeing The Zytglogge tower . It reminded me of my trip to Prague where Atronomical clock exists. Such inventions back to 800 years! Wow, that is really mystery of human talent and innovation. The only difference between the two clock is the dolls- as I call, They make more movements in Prague tower than Bern one.

This is the biggest one. There are many clocks around Bern, almost every old houses have clocks on top of them, so it was clear that people would rarely miss their appointments.

Second, probably the most popular feature was bear - animal. It is everywhere. Bear statue, bear flag, bear dolls, bears on rivers!, and REAL bears living in the centre of city. I must admit that these two real bears look bit sad, I think they are always happy as long as they do their own living in mountains no matter how people like them to keep in a cage. Sorry, poor bears.

Just next to Bear cage, there is a shop and restaurant. After having drinks there, we saw a small movie about Bern. It was a small theatre where modern movie is shown with puppet dolls and computer graphical images and a small city model.

I enjoyed watching beautiful horses in horsing ring. They have nice coolour mixing with black and white. Good equipments suit them nicely. Indeed, they looked gorgeous.

After interesting day, I visited my friend's home, his mom cooked us Raclette. Yummy, I loved all types fo cheeses there:o) Plus, potatoes are my life long fav dishe!

On the way back to Geneva, I chatted a Swiss girl who stressed that negotiation is the Swiss skill!!!

I absolutely loved my Swiss day.

Oh, last - All humans such as Swiss like messing their garbages in train:=)

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