Country Info
- Bern
- Capital
- Swiss Franc (CHF)
- Currency
- 7,283,274
- Population
- CH
- Country Code
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Bern
Travel Blogs from Bern, Switzerland
Update from Switzerland
... Cake. All in all it was a fun night. On the Sunday after Shan's party, Curtis, Cathy and I went to Bern. Bern is the capital of Switzerland and is a really beautiful, old looking town just south west of Zurich. All the streets are cobblestone and the ...
Gimmelwald
... more beautiful than Gimmelwald. I think Rick Steves was right when he said it was one of his favorite places in Europe. I could have spent another night or two but we are cold and off to the warmth of the south of Switzerland. 80 Degrees here I ...
The hills are alive...with the sound of music
... had no idea what it was, but it turned out to be pretty tasty! Then we headed towards Bern for the night to stay. We will DEFINITELY be back to Switzerland...the small taste we got of the mountains in one day was enough for us to make that quick ...
Switzerland
... Travelled out of Bern to a a place called Ballenberg which is an outdoor museum near Brienz and covers all the regions of Switzerland - architectural styles, animals etc. It is a huge park and requires a lot of walking. It was a nice, sunny day ...
Riding bikes
This morning Michelle and I caught a train to Thun. The guide book said that we could hire bikes for free and that Thun was a bike friendly town. Once we got out the station we went to hire our bikes. It had been a while since either of us had ridden a ...
Bern!
hmmm... I cant find the apostraphe key on this computer. anyways, Bern was fun. It was a miracle we made it there since Mark purchased the train reservation while highly intoxicated after a night of intense partying in Berlin. It was a miracle we made it ...
Switzerland, the land of beautiful mountains!
... Philipp and Marco (Stephanie's bo). We then spent the next couple of days seeing the town of Solothorn and the capital of Switzerland, Bern. Vivian's relatives were so very nice to take time from their holidays to show us a great time (Thanks again for ...
First adventures in Switzerland
... I forget I will mention some of the weird rules they have here. They are REALLY strict about recycling here. Each Canton in Switzerland has specific garbage bags that you MUST use. This is rather silly and annoying I think because you have to buy the ...
Bern
The bad weather that caused us to leave Interlaken early gave us good reason to visit Bern, the capitol of Switzerland. The same weather that made the mountains a cloud of fog may have actually made Bern even more photogenic... no less in any case. This ...
Mit dem Auto zurück nach Bern
Bern hat sich (obwohl oft anders behauptet) meiner Meinung nach recht verändert innert diesen 11 ...
0 Vorbereitung
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 ...
Switzerland
We arrived in Switzerland after taking an eventful overnight train from Rome. Half way through the night Jaydine was climbing on to her very high bunk when the ladder unattached itself from the wall and she fell to the ground with the ladder landing on ...
Capital visit
... the train station. I walked across an old bridge into the Altstadt (old town) and checked out the Untertorbrücke which is Bern's oldest bridge, first mentioned in records in 1265. The Altstadt itself is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, listed since 1983. I ...
Choo Choo
... the Aare river, went to see Star Wars, saw the Einstein special exhibit but the most memorable thing about Bern was the trains. Realize that Switzerland like Germany has a reputation for having trains that are rarely late. They keep their schedule so ...
Back home
Nach zwei genialen Monaten bin ich also wieder hier, zurück in der Schweiz. Ich hätte es gut und gerne noch etwas länger ausgehalten, freute mich aber auch wieder heimzukommen. Ich möchte an dieser Stelle allen danken die mich in den zwei Monaten ...
The count down
The final week back home just started and I will use this time to get packed and say good bye to my loved ones... I also want to book the Hostel in Hong Kong in advance. So if anybody knows a good place to stay, please let me ...
Sightseeing in Bern
I wasn't intending on going to Bern today, but I was supposed to change trains there and never got on my connecting train. Instead, I walked around the city and tried to make it to the Zytglogge in time to see the tourist-trapping performance (4 minutes ...
Bern: The Weather Slowly Clears!
... nbsp;the reappearance of the sun. The distant Alps remained hidden behind a hazy veil. The following day, we explored Bern a little more thoroughly, visiting the area near the Hauptbanhof, which is a bit more lively than the touristy shopping ...
August in Switzerland
... , but we got distracted and forgot to. Ah well. The next day we drove through Italy, to the Southeast part of Switzerland, more specifically, Locarno. We stopped for lunch at a cute little lakeside restaurant in Italy. When we arrived in Locarno, we ...
Swiss cheeeese please
... people had refused to speak French, and our (French) hosts were adamant they would not speak German with their neighbours. That said, Switzerland is still a place where someone can give you a lift to the shops and ask 'which language would you like me to ...
Onions and Hammers
... a cold, rainy couple of days back in Florence staying with Friendly Francesco, our Hotel Etrusca owner, we took the train north to Bern, Switzerland. On the way, we were surprised to see how much snow was on the fields and hills north of Florence! It, ...
Evening Walk
Michelle and I arrived in Bern this evening. Once we found our hostel and freshened up, we went for a walk around ...
aaaaaaaahhh time's over
beachbum is back in the mountains hmmmmmmm.... Time is fucking running!! If you have a year in front of u it feels like your time's endless, but the last couple months you feel almost a rush because days fly by so fast... Anyway, i ...
Saturday 1st June 2002, Eggishorn Glacier
... straw. What sort of idiot would attempt to drive into a medieval village packed with pedestrians? An idiot who has driven across Switzerland in peak hour and just wants to settle into his apartment. He has been trying to control crowds all day and now ...