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
I'm on a Swiss kezboard. Please excuse the tzpos.
Feeling heroic, and possibly a bit drunk, 6 of us decided to hike up to the top of the Shilthorn, the very tall peak right behind the hostel. But the beautiful weather that had greeted us the last 2 days had been taken over by some heavy, rainy ...
Passing out in photo cabins
... there were several beer cans and a vodka bottle lying around. I shortly found out why they had left: late October + Switzerland = really cold nights. Jason and I sat there unsuccessfully trying lie down in any possible way to fall asleep. Instead ...
Mount Titlis and Luzern
It's a short train journey from Bern to Luzern for a change of train and then about an hour on to Engelberg, a pleasant little resort below Mount Titlis. A 10 minute walk away is the cable car station from which the ascent is made, first to Trubsee (1,800 ...
Wowzers
... I am staying. There are people waiting for this computer. So, I will just have to briefly cover some highlights. Switzerland is expensive! Other people Kiplyn and I have met here agree. In fact, while we were eating fish and chips ...
"Go wank somewhere else"
One thing that's really easy to do when you're traveling is to completely loose track of what day it is. I don't know how many times I've tried going to the store to get something, only to be frustrated that it's closed, or doesn't open until ...
Scott comes to visit, Miranda arrives
... Hutte, I highly recommend it to people that have a day and a half, absolutely beautiful. I hope Scott got a good taste of Switzerland while he was here. I will be travelling with Miranda (aka The Eskimo) for the next six weeks (on and off). She ...
RUNNING OF THE BULLS VIDEOS!!!!!!!
Ok, as it turns out TravelPod lets me upload videos, so I have finished uploading some of the videos from running of the bulls. There are several videos and I put descriptions up of what is on them. The videos are stored under two of my earlier entries ...
Missing Halloween
... needs to use my brother's ID. Happy birthday champ. I can't believe he is 21, time flies by, its insane. Back in Switzerland, hanging out with family. Mirjam came down from Paris for an extended weekend and we hung out yesterday and had a good ...
Crashing at my mom's in Switzerland
Ok, so my buddy Eric and I have made it to my mom's place in Switzerland. Air plane ride sucked and was uncomfortable, but they did have the sweetest movie setup I have ever seen on a plane. So it could be that Eric looks like a drug smuggler or it ...
Bern -- last day...
... We walk over to the Bundeshaus. This place is so homey and intimate that I totally keep forgetting it's the capital of Switzerland. It doesn't seem like a capital. Capitals are supposed to be noisy and dirty and teeming with masses of people. The ...
Bern-ing up
... year. But it's all so nice, and quiet and charming that it's hard to believe that this is the capital city of Switzerland. The restaurant, called Harmonie, turned out to be quiet and pleasantly out of the way of too much street traffic. It serves ...
Still bern-ing
... Costoletto on our last night in Milan at the canals, and all these tomatoes have that same beautiful red color. The onions - apparently Bern has a famous Onion Festival every fall - are so shiny I think they're winking at me, and then there's cheeses. ...
Julian in town and a big family reunion
... cousins together in probably about 12 years (we were still missing two cousins). Some of our cousins we see a lot when we are in Switzerland and others not so much, so it was great to get the whole family together for the day for food and drinks. We ...
Feels good to be home
... , free internet at my disposal, and a great view. I feel extremely lucky and fortunate that I can have a home base here in Switzerland during my European travels. I can come back every month or so, hang out with my mom, see family, chill out for a ...
Cruising in the Capital
... new BMWs for those twisty alpine roads. From there, they carried on with the bikes and we carried on in cars to Bern, the capital of Switzerland and (as any resident will be proud to tell you) a UNESCO World Heritage Site for it's medieval-era stone ...
Scandinavia summary, rushing back to Switzerland
... and well worth it. I can honestly only say great things about Scandinavia, go see it. So, my brother Oliver is coming to Switzerland for a week of vacation, so I rushed back to meet him. Train ride was delightful after I was able to drink my six ...
My leave of absence has been taken away, damn
Well it was a good run while it lasted. To refresh everyone's memory, three months before my trip I told my employer, National Instruments, that I would be quitting in early May to do a big trip. They weren't thrilled about the news, but there wasn't ...
A wonderful visit with family...
... , I went to the Bern historical museum, where they currently have a great display about Einstein. Einstein actually lived in Bern and in Switzerland for some time, and it was right here in Bern that he developed his theory of relativity! I personally ...
Happy Swiss Day, everyone!
We were up too late last night. Predictably, we got a late start. It turned out to be a fantastic day. Probably the best I've seen yet on this trip. Five of us decided to go for a hike to the Chilchbalm glacier. Others from the ...
The last one
So, that's it. I am back home. No big stories anymore. Though, the last week in the States was a blast! Staying with Dean was an incredible experience. It was a wonderful life, checking out breakfast places, look around the neighborhood, play basketball, ...
leaving bern
... to get a direct ride to basel badischer bahnhof, cool =) the driver was a businessman (as usual...) but he told me that when he is bern he always goes to dead end and he used to go to reithalle when he was younger. was intresting! and the weather was so ...
"Dont F#*k it up, or you''ll be F@%ked up"
... the mountain, people had different ideas of what they wanted to do the next day. One of the things I really wanted to do in Switzerland was to go Paragliding. I had seen the videos and it looked like a blast. A few days ago a few others ...
Chilling out with Julian
Julian and I got back to my mom's place in Switzerland. It worked out fairly well considering he had this gi-normous bag that we had to bring back. Since back we have pretty much been bumming around. We did some hiking and hung out with our two little ...
The Bernina Express, nearly
... down to Tirano in Italy. The journey in the bus is not particularly interesting until it reaches Lake Como and then Lake Lugano. The final journey of this rather long day was by train from Lugano to Bern, with a change at Zurich, arriving at ...
Back to home cooked meals
I got back real late after Oktoberfest. I was glad to see a bed at my mom's place. I crashed hard. I'm still sick, coughing up flem and all, yum. Looking forward to a bit of detoxification. I'm currently uploading pictures, I will drop a post when ...
snow in July ....... YES
... the bueatiful swiss alps and tomorrow we take atrain thru them today we have seen snow topped mountains yes snow in JULY wow and it si so nice here we are on our way to Italy then back to switzerland. I have many pictures hope to post some real ...
Petria came to Thun
The first day Petria was in Thun, Karin and I showed her around the city like good little hosts. The next couple of days Petria and I didn't do much other than sleep, catch up on the last year and eat (lots of) chocolate - blocks of chocolate, hot ...
Zibälämärit - Onion market
At 12:45am Karin and I decided we would go with Kaspar to Bern in the morning to the Onion Market. So after four hours sleep we got up and had left by 5:30am for Bern. We got there and the streets were packed, even though the markets are open all day, it ...