Bern, Switzerland Travel Blogs

Waterfalls everywhere and the alpine hike of death
Jun 10, 2007 (26 photos)

(S) Most of you will say "how the hell did you end up in a tiny little town called Gimmelwald on the top of a mountain?" Well, actually, we ended up in Lauterbrunnen at a nice little campground (which would have been a nice place to camp had we not been ...

Bern
Dec 21, 2007 (5 photos)

Bern, Switzerland

Chilling in Bern
Oct 21, 2006

... Prague in seven days - for us to meet back in Rome in a week or so. First stop for this random tour of Switzerland was Bern. What a brilliant couple of days, a beautiful city, great food and an absolute pleasure to not be staying in a hostel. Massive ...

Room for two more bears?
Aug 24, 2007 (10 photos)

· Bern, Switzerland · GMT +1:00 hour In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love; they had 500 ...

Plans go astray
Jul 3, 2006 (4 photos)

... evening we met up with Sabine and her friend Eva and a Canadian girl who is also staying with Sabine. We had a sumptuous dinner at a Greek restaurant beside the Aare River - on a spectacularly warm summer evening. Farewell Switzerland - I shall return.

A little village by beautiful lake Thun
Sep 24, 2005 (10 photos)

... before heading back up to meet my connecting train (if it hadn't come and gone heh!). This is my last stop in Switzerland - i'll definatly miss it!!! BY FAR it has been the most beautiful country i have ever seen. I leave with the nostalgic, yet ...

The Deutsche side of Switzerland
Oct 12, 1998

... and run around in. We did this. We found a Swiss army shop and bought gifts for our mum's. This was the German side of Switzerland. It was nice, but the as we got to the border of Swiss Deutsche and Swiss French, a whole new world was opening up to us. ...

Never underestimate the value of clean clothes
Jun 5, 2006 (15 photos)

... of Raclette - basically it's melted cheese over potatoes and meat and salad etc etc - anyway, it was really really delicious. Another dinner guest was Suzanne who was a fascinating lady born in Peru and working in Switzerland as an artist and a clown.

A most pleasant train journey
Jun 4, 2006 (8 photos)

... world cup soccer now encroached upon Europe, there were no rooms to be found under 120 euros. We had been offered accommodation in Bern from a lovely lady from the Hospitality Club and I asked if we caught a late train to Bern whether she could put us up ...

Full circle
Jul 2, 2006 (18 photos)

... 2 more minor passes on our way back to Bern arriving at Sabine's house at 5pm. It was such an unusually hot day for Switzerland and Sabine immediately bundled us off to the swimming pool to cool down. I opted for a snooze in the shade but Sabine and the ...

Bears in Bern
Jul 11, 2000 (8 photos)

... through France and Switzerland so we left Dijon during a break in the weather and hooked up a few rides and into Switzerland. We were about 50km short of Bern and we were losing the daylight hours fast. I was ready to set up the tent in a potato crop ...

"God does not play dice." -Einstein
Jun 2, 2006

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Bears, the chindlifresser and a country is born
Feb 22, 2008 (6 photos)

... there, waiting for something more... We gave up as 5 minutes past the hour. We spent the evening wandering the streets of Bern, exploring the nooks and crannies and checking out the cool statues. The next morning we set out with a mission to find the one ...

The Mountains Win Again
Sep 13, 2004 (15 photos)

... mountains towering above me. The chorus of cow bells echoing from the valleys below assured me I must be in Switzerland. I think I've discovered paradise. Nestled between the famous Eiger, Jungrau, and Monch mountains is the little town of Gimmelwald, ...

Bern River...we saw, we swam, we froze.....
Jul 15, 2008 (4 photos)

As if interlaken wasn´t enough of an addrenailine rush...next came bern! In Bern there is a river that surrounds the whole city and it is actaully clean enough to swim in. It is a VERY fast flowing river that you can get in and float down into the city and ...

0 Vorbereitung
Nov 10, 2009 (3 photos)

Wie die meisten meiner Bekannten und Freunde auf und neben Facebook mittlerweile wissen, plane ich eine Reise nach Patagonien. Am 10. November geht's los. Das Motto? Raus - aber richtig! (habe ich das nicht schon irgendwo gelesen?) Zu diesem Zweck schlage ...

Ne(pa)vykes Bern
Jul 22, 2007

Dar vienas mūsų tarpinis tikslas jau nebetoli ir apie 17:00 mes jau pasiekiam Sveicarijos sostinę Berną. Planas buvo palikti kemperį ir pasivaiksčioti po grazų grazaus miesto senamiestį, tačiau bandydami rasti ...

Sveicarijos ezerai
Jul 22, 2007 (7 photos)

Nusileidę islendame netoli Brienz miestelio ir prie jo esančio Brienz ezero (Brienzer See). Vaziuojam skaidraus kalnų ezero pakrante ir kyla noras jame issimaudyti. Sustojus pirmoje pasitaikiusioje aikstelėje paaiskėja, kad vanduo ...

Switzerland, Piz Gloria and Bond, James Bond
Oct 22, 2008 (5 photos)

OK, we moved on from Venice to Bern Switzerland. Long train ride, got to Bern about 9:30 pm, then off the next morning at 6:30 am to go to Piz Gloria to see the famous rotatiing restaurant that was Blofeld's lair in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. We ...

Vorbereitungen
May 4, 2009

Zur Zeit sind wir noch in Bern am Vorbereiten. Wir freuen uns riesig auf unsere Reise!

Sightseeing Bern
May 6, 2007 (10 photos)

Hey all, Well today was a much better day then yesterday so we decided to do some sightseeing of Bern. We walked around the beautiful little city of Bern. We visisted the bears, the rivers, all the staues monuments, clocks and fountains. They have ...

Up a Mountain and Down Again
May 19, 2002 (2 photos)

SATURDAY, MAY 18th I woke up at 8:00 and still managed to beat everyone to the showers. I took the shower in 1 Swiss franc, and am very proud of myself. Yesterday was clear, sunny, wonderful weather, but today was overcast and gloomy. The bright ...

Bern, Baby, Bern
Sep 20, 2008 (7 photos)

Today we leave France after 11 days and make our way into Switzerland. I have enjoyed France more than I thought I would, especially the food, which I thought would be too rich for my tastes. My expectation of living on crepes and baguettes hasn't quite ...

Bern
Aug 26, 2006

... of the nozzle every second at about 200kph). Very nice place. Then that afternoon us and the just Daddy of the caln headed off to Bern for the night. Not unlike Copenhagen only no was over 25 at night - except us of course - went for a nice Malasian meal ...

Bern
Nov 25, 2005 (2 photos)

We arrive in Bern at night. It's a quiet government town with a nice clock. We catch the latest Harry Potter movie with German and French subtitles simultaneously...there is also an intermission! Oh the Swiss!

Hiking in the Alps
May 8, 2007 (10 photos)

Hey all, Well today we decided to go hiking up in the Alps. They have so many walking tracks from the Hostel ranging from easy to hard and some short and some all day trecks. We decided to go Kilchbalm which is considered one of the easy trecks (not ...

My 1 Day in Switzerland
Jul 25, 2009 (12 photos)

I spent the morning walking around Bern and then took a train to Interlaken, where I payed extra to take a train up the mountains to Keines Scheidegge. I wanted to go to the top of Jungfrau but it costs over $150 so I took a train halfway and hiked around ...

Bern, Switzerland
Oct 9, 2005 (36 photos)

After recooperating from the previous day of jet-lag and the annoying kid on the plane, I was able to take a tour of Bern, the capital of Switzerland. What a gorgeous town... But don't take my word for it, make your own conclusions.

I am moving to Switzerland.
Jul 24, 2007

Hello Everybody!     Well, what have I been up to since I last wrote to you. First and foremost I am in Switzerland, as you should already know. And I am fairly certain I will be moving here. I actually was going to inquire into a nanny job ...

Gimmel de Wald
May 18, 2002 (3 photos)

... asleep, and only woke up when the conductor came to check tickets and when customs came to check passports when we passed into Switzerland. And so we entered the land of the Swiss. One catch with traveling without a glitch is to know when to get off ...