Last night we had an interesting meal. It was called "Reclette". We got a large flat soup bowl sized dish with melted mild white cheese on the bottom - lots of it. On it we put small cooked spuds and pickles (gerkins and onions). The idea is to scrape up the melted cheese and eat it with the pickles and potatoes. It was good but a few had a terrible time with it so went hungry. Tonite was a smorg so better for the fussy eaters. We have been avoiding salads but hear that it was definitely the bean sprouts that caused the Ecoli outbreak. The waiter assured us tonite that there is no problem with the Swiss veggies.
Today we left Zurich in the pouring rain. It continued off and on all day. My new coat was perfect! We arrived in Lucerne around 10 am and had a two hour walking tour of the old part of town. Very interesting. Some of the buildings are Rennaisance style with Swiss country style roofs as they had to consider the snow loads.
We walked across a very old wooden bridge which was one of the ways of protecting the city during the old wars. It is a foot bridge so not wide and could be used as a defence. It burned some years ago so was rebuilt in the old way with no nails. The sides have flower baskets along the whole length.
Lucerne Lake is called something else in German: means "Lake of the Four Cities in the Forest". Quite a handful. We were told to do any shopping this afternoon as it is Pentecostal weekend so the stores are all closed on Sunday and Monday. So we did! Mostly in the same store. I got a very pretty Swatch plus Ethan's birthday present.
On the way here we went through many tunnels, some very long. They have other uses. Their defence is set up in them somewhere and they can be used for shelters in case of an attack. They are building a new train tunnel that goes under the Alps which will be 50 Km long. It will save on fuel as the trains won't have to do all the climbing they do now.
We went through areas of mixed farming today. Lots of silos.
Lucerne has a population of about 80,000 and is the 10th most visited city in Europe. It's a very walkable city so I went out again on my own for a vigorous walk.
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