Holiday Inn Bern-Westside

... 3 families: von Allmen, Brunner and Feuz. With 130 townsfolk sharing hte 3 surnames. To keep prescriptions and medical records straight, the doctor in nearby Lauterbrunnen goes by birth date first, then the patient's name."<br><br>It is definitely one of those places where if you were able to located some brocade curtains and stich yourself a pinafore, you could twirl around, channel Maria von Trapp, and belt our a rousing rendition of ...

... We were interviewing him for our international security papers, and spent an hour and a half talking about Afghanistan, climate change, international law, soft power, negotiating in conflict, state sovereignty, education, precedents set by powerful countries, the role of the United States, and failed states. After this interview, my classmates and I were on such a high, and kept remarking "This is why we are in Switzerland." Dr. Murphy was also the first self ...

... br>Switzerland is expensive! Other people Kiplyn and I have met here agree. In fact, while we were eating fish and chips at an English pub in Bath, England, we met a couple that chatted with us for a while. They warned us about the high prices, and told us that Switzerland is expensive for everyone. A typical meal in a modest cafe would cost at least 20 US dollars. Our only salvation was the grocery stores!<br>Yesterday, Kiplyn and I ...

... it now falling on the long street of old buildings and a church peak to some church in the background. it is falling in large clumps now like it is determined to get to rest on the ground and slip someone up. i am so grateful to God for the perfect weather and this is perfect timing as we can go alot of shopping undercover here and hang in little cafes and watch the snow from the warmth. It is beautiful. anyhoo nothing to do in bern but some statues and i ...

... Then you leave and you miss them. Its a pretty drive through the farm country to Bern. We stopped at a rest stop (panoramic view) because it had a Harley shop (for Barb's son in law). But it was closed, permanently, so no luck for a T-shirt. Dee had shopped the web for a Hotel in Bern and come up with one about 5 km out of the city central. Hotel Sternen, another beauty. Typical area small town ...

... open on the way down so i missed the lovely views, but as soon as we got back down the bottom i was all powernaped up and ready to go. We had a drink in a pub in the town, the wandered the car free streets. It was very busy, tourists everywhere. By the time we walked up to the end of the main street we were over it and decided to head back to Bern. Not to say that the town wasnt cool, cause it was! One of the hotels even had a horse and cart to take their clients from the ...

... of a motorbike helmet, her 10 yr old son's bright red bicycle helmet .....I looked like a blinking retard who had been allowed to dress themselves for the day! (no offence to people with a mental disability) So up i popped on the back of the shiny big mean purple machine behind my 2 extremely cool looking leather clad German biker dudes looking like Krusty the Clown's trusty sidekick. Beat (my amused host dad) and Ursi and the neighbour were wetting themselves at my ...

Zurich is about 2 hours away from Interlaken and it is a nice City.. It is very modern compared to Firenze and it was many shops! and when I say shops.. I mean like New York City. Honestly, I have a block and a half away from the train station and blew 120 euros.. But I did really good. I got 5 t-shirts, 1 sweatshirt, and a skirt.. so I did really good. For the rest of the day, I ...

... to tell his whole story to the tiled stove in the corner of the room. The confederates "overheard" the boy's tale, and so were able to thwart the plot. (The stove which stands today in the corner of the restaurant Metzgern on Weinmarkt is allegedly the self-same one). The defeat of Austrian forces in the Battle of Sempach in 1386 severed the Habsburg claim to Luzern, and the city's elders reinforced their independence by building the Musegg fortifications, which survive ...

We went from Paris to Geneva through the wine-producing region of Burgundy. We stopped in the medieval town of Beaune before entering Switzerland and Geneva. It was incredibly HOT! Geneva sightseeing included the Reformation Monument and United Nations' building. We then ...