For not really having any reason to go to Bern other than to get Stephen out of Germany for security reason, it turned out to be a pretty neat little city. I mean any city that has a bear-pit is an instant winner in my books. Bern is one of those fantastic modern European cities that skilfully manage to blend its 17th century architecture with McDonalds and Prada. We only spent two nights there but it was a good place to catch up with our two new wanders.
So let me give you the highlights of Bern.
As mentioned before, this sleepy little city is the proud owner of a real, live bear pit. Well, I may be taking liberties with the word ‘live’, as far as we understand the bears died out several years ago. They are trying to breed some new ones, but to me this begs the question “how do you breed bears from nothing”? Right next door to this pseudo bear-pit was a restaurant that we just took to calling the “Jubi Pub” since Jubi-Bier was their own beer brewed on site. It was fantastic, possibly my favourite part of the city. They also did a mean Absinth, a handy way to blow those remaining franks floating around in your pocket. This brings me to my next point, Swiss money is magnificent. The notes are huge and they could shame a Pro Hart painting while the coins look like something coveted by a pirate! And finally, not so much the icing on the cake, more so the little figurines you get on a wedding cake... the picture above. A tiny bear with a massive rifle. Now that’s a proper statue... do I detect some passive aggression here Switzerland?
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