Monday 6th

Today we rose early again so we could catch a train to Bern, which is the capital of the state that we are staying in. After a two hour long train ride we finally reached Bern at around 11:00. We bought some morning tea at a nice bakery at the station. Once we had finished eating we went to see the clock in Bern strike 12:00. The clock does a routine where a big bell in a tower rings while small figures below the clock face move around. Though we were told it was worth seeing it wasn't really all that spectacular. There weren't all that many moving figures. Dad kept going on about how it was exactly the same as when he had seen it 20 years ago. He also said that he remembered the bear pits in Bern, bears being the symbol of the state, were really depressing but we still set off for them,

When we got the bear pits we discovered that they weren't actually pits. The bears had a large enclosure that they could roam around in. The enclosure was maybe even bigger than an exhibit at Taronga Zoo. Apparently the Russian President gave the bears, which are brown bears, as a present to Bern during the first Russian visit to the City. We then wandered around Bern some more and found out that there was an Einstein Museum just out of town. Luckily I looked at the brochure and saw that is was closed on Monday before we went off to have a look at it.

After another long train ride home we watched some more Swiss T.V. and didn't do to much else.

I posted this at the same time as the 7th of December