Typical Swiss Sunday

In Switzerland, Sundays are for meant for family time. I've read blogs where people get yelled at if they do "work" on a Sunday - laundry or cleaning or some such thing. I have never experienced this. You can pretty much do whatever you wish, be it laundry or activities with one's family.

But in general, the Swiss usually end up jumping on a train and heading out somewhere each Sunday to go hiking or swimming or just to simply spend the day seeing their country. And today we did just that - we jumped on a train and headed down to Thun. Thun is a small medieval town on (where else) Lake Thun about a 20 minute ride from Bern. In Thun we ate sandwiches and ice cream along the river Aare while we waited for the next ship leaving Thun. It didn't really matter where we were going - we had promised little N. we were going on a "boat ride".



From Thun you can catch a ship to any number of towns along the lake shore for about CHF 15. The entire round trip would have gotten us back at 7pm so we decided to just jump on a boat (ship) and get off at Spiez, spend a few hours and then come back.





Spiez was a cute little town. Mostly filled with resorts and boating clubs. I could see taking the train here and spending more time at some point. Especially because from the lake, it's all up hill. Need to bring back the bike I think. And there was a nice playground. Which N. never saw because he was fast asleep by the time we got there. Switzerland tires him out I think. It's either the extra stimulation or the fact that he wakes up so early now again.

Wow - what a spectacular view along the way. A camera can't even do it justice. It was a tad hazy, but at times you could see all the way from the lake up to the snow capped mountain top. I couldn't shut up about it. I'm sure I drove Alison nuts.