Bern, Baby, Bern!

 

Well, after an unusually uneventful trip overseas (we breezed in and out of security, didn’t have to check any bags and encountered few, if any, lines), we made it to Frankfurt at 7 AM this morning!  After Jason had his ceremonial in-airport beers, we hopped our first train on our trek to Bern at 8:54AM.  Many snoozes and 3 trains later, we arrived in Bern to amazing weather!   To include some historical info, Bern was founded in 1191 by the Duke Bechtold von Zaehringen, who, on his first hunt, caught a bear and that is where the name came from. Aside from a lot of construction, Bern is an amazing city to walk around.  We got that chance because we a hard time finding an affordable hotel.  We finally settled for the last place we found, which is a very old hotel with a shared bath. 

 

Today’s highlight’s include:

·         Our amazing buffalo, arugula and ham pizza (pictured below)

·         Getting to wander aimlessly through the streets of Bern (Jason getting ti talk to every innkeeper and hotel clerk in German along the way)

·         The Aare River

·         Finding a horizontal location for real sleep which we are looking very forward to after almost 30 straight hours of travel.

 

Tomorrow:  Onto Venice!