These steps lead to the Lauperswil apt.
Our hosts Jurg and Heidi live in the lower level.
Our hosts Jurg and Heidi live in the lower level.
The view from the living room.
This bridge is about 200 meters from the apt and crosses
a stream into the village. It is just wide enough for one car and has a peak in the middle so you can not see if
a car has started to cross from the other side.
Wheat awaiting harvest.
The apt is in the house with the red roof.
Village house on the way to Bern.
Overview of the historic part of Bern.
The Aare river borders the south, east, and west sides of the city.
The government building for Switzerland
The Aare river flows behind it on the south side of the old city.
Albert Einstein lived in Bern from 1902 in a small second floor apartment on the street shown below (behind the yellow truck). For 4.50 CHF (seniors and students), you can view his apartment much as it was when he lived there. There is a museum on the 3rd floor that summarizes his youth and his life in Bern, Zurich, Berlin, and Princeton.
While recognized for his remarkable contributions to physics, his personal life was often one of a rascal. He was an average student in the primary grades and a lazy student later during his technical training and often at odds with his professors.
He had a daughter with his first wife before they were married that was abandoned to relatives (Einstein never saw or met his daughter).
He eventually divorced his first wife and married his cousin. A close friend had to prod him to meet his family responsibilities to his first wife and their son after they divorced.
My "positive entry" for the day. :-)
Einstein lived on the 2nd floor (the living room widows are above the arch).
This is where he first started to develop his theory of relativity.
The flag with the bear is the Bern Canton flag (a canton is a bit like a state in the USA but smaller - more like the size of our Nebraska counties).
Aare River on the south side of the old town.
The streets in the old part of Bern are lined with archades
in front of the shops. You can stroll under the arcades but cars, trams, bicycles, and pedestrians all share the streets (traffic is light).
The public transportation is highly developed throughout Swizerland.
Clean, convenient, and well used.
