Just when we thought we'd miss the bells of Notre-Dame, we find ourselves in an apartment we've rented for a week in Luzern - across the road from Kirche Paulus. The bells of the church ring each half hour and curiously at around 8.00am they like to ring one-hundred-and-fifty-three-oclock. Once they rang two-hundred-and-three-oclock!
A rainy Luzern morning provided an opportunity to sit on the promenade next to Kapellbruche in a pretty lakeside cafe to read and catch up on many drafted blog posts. In the afternoon we anticipated the small patches of blue peaking through the clouds and drove to Mt Pilatus - not to the famous cable car though - but driving up, up, up through alpine forest trails, then across meadows of willdflowers. Higher and higher and the view down on to Kriens, Lake Luzern was magnificent. The sun had come out and we stopped to listen to the orchestra of cow bells as the herd wandered across our view.
We were happy to discover that Luzern also had a bike hire system and is a perfect town to ride around. We also took day trips - to Weggis and home on the car ferry across the lake; and to Interlaken and Grindelwald to sit at the foot of the north face of the mighty Eiger. I don't know how the snow topped alps stay snow-topped in the glorious sunshine?
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| Eiger |
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I walked into a little clock stop, and realised that
we had bought a clock there 30 years ago! |
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| Wildflowers on Pilatus |
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| Beautiful 14th century wooden Chapel Bridge - Kapellbrucke |
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| Anyone you recognise? |
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| On the way to Interlaken |
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| The baroque Jesuit church that has heard the singing voices of S and E. |
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