Hotel Baren
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I Need a Bib
... have an area (since 2009, the bears have much better living conditions than just a concrete pit) where they keep four brown bears. So cute. I told Josh he had to make me leave because I would just stay there and watch them all day long. After he dragged me away, we walked up a steep hill in order to get a great view of the town. It just feels Swiss, I don't know how to describe it! We picked up lunch at a grocery store and made our way back to the ...
Sledging on the Neiderhorn
... was amazing and planned out our entire day so I only had to get ready for the cold and tag along.
We started by packing ourselves a lunch and various pieces of winter clothing which we thought we might need then took a bus downtown to wait for our train to Thun. We had about half an hour to kill, so we walked along the University's courtyard and talked about the mountains we were about to visit. The University is located on high grounds within Bern, so I was able ...
Gotta learn the exchange rate FIRST next time..
... all touristy either. Right across from our hostel, 2 minute walk, is the famous Bear Park! (Think like a zoo, but just one big enclosure with only bears). Very cool. You can just walk by and look down and see the bears. We spent a little while here, then walked across the river to the city center to see the clock tower, did some window shopping at some very pricey looking boutiques, got yelled at by a shop owner for touching the ...
Bern, baby Bern
... though - oh well. It was cool anyway.I also passed the Kornhaus, an old granary, the church of St. Peter and Paul, which had beautiful alpine flower paintings on the ceilings, the Rathaus and its fountain, and Einstein's house. Down by the river Aare was another church, the Nydegg Kirch, that is situated on the spot where Duke Berchtold (founder of the city) had his original castle, making it the oldest part of the city. Down a curvy ...
Fairytale castles, rainy cities + goodbyes
... me to say goodbye before i left, and secondly - her house was just around the corner from the football stadium where we were going to watch a a game that night! It was sad to start saying goodbye to everyone even though i still had 2 sleeps to go! We hung out in the appartment with Leila and Michael for a couple of hours, and then put on all of the warmest clothes that we had (i was wearing thermals under my clothes, plus 2 jackets and 2 scarfs!) and we walked over to ...
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