Again, we spent just about 24 hours in Bern, arriving around 8pm on Friday night and departing at 9:30pm on Saturday night. The hours were packed, familiarizing ourselves with the gorgeous old town area, finding really comfortable reclining chairs in a park in the middle of town, rushing to the Zytglogge just before the hour so that we could see the clock face animate, eating rösti (a typical dish from the canton of Bern), visiting various Einstein sights and the exhibit on Einstein at the museum there and trying to find all the fairy-tale fountains. I also spent a good half hour hunting for a wallet for my office mate Joe, who had debated over getting a wallet with the Bern flag on it for the better part of an hour the last time he had been in Bern and decided against it... and then really wanted it when he got back to Geneva!
I promised some of you more pictures, so here are a few:
Physics students on a pilgrimage at the Einstein exhibit in Bern's history museum - note the E=mc^2 stickers! (it's not the best picture, but it's the best we got of the four of us... ignore the red eye!)(L-R Chris, Joseph, me, Nathan)
Bern's old town from the other side of the river
Nathan in front of the Einsteinhaus, where Einstein lived from 1903-1905.
Joe's (my office mate's) favorite fairytale fountain in Bern, which he dubs the "ogre eating baby" statue.
Bern's old town from the other side of the river
Nathan in front of the Einsteinhaus, where Einstein lived from 1903-1905.
Joe's (my office mate's) favorite fairytale fountain in Bern, which he dubs the "ogre eating baby" statue.
This fountain is much more family friendly (although the steps are steep!)Here, I'm attempting the Ian Anderson pose with a bamboo flute I found in a box of German books in an alley marked "Gratis."
A picture of the inside of Münster (Bern's cathedral)(Katie - there's more where this came from!)