My Travel Adventures

For breakfast, we stayed at our Airbnb and ate our groceries from yesterday: we bought a pretzel and two discounted quarter pies (the discount owing to slight visual defects). We then walked over to the train station and set off in the direction of Lauterbrunnen. Heaving under the heels of visiting multitudes, this quaint Swiss village owes its popularity to its dramatic setting. Steep cliffs frame the village on all sides, with several waterfalls vaulting nimbly over the western walls and bright meadows filling in the gentler slopes on all sides. Lauterbrunnen is also famous for having inspired Schiller and other romantically minded Germans.

I am allowed to take two days off for every month I work at the delegation, and since it has been more than a month already, I am cashing in on half of my allowance. I decided to go to the Canton of Bern this long weekend, beginning with a Friday on the shores of Lake Thun.