Working on the Bucket List Pictures

I posted some pictures the other day of Switzerland that somehow got eaten up by the gremlins so I will try once more. We drove South from Heidleberg, Germany along the French boarder to Luzern,
Switzerland. Most of the pictures are self explanatory. We found everybody extremely friendly and helpful and always ready to translate to english anything that we didn't understand. Also extraordinarily neat, clean and flowers everywhere. We rented a hotel room in Luzern and took the train system to Bern the Capital and Zurick, the largest city in Switzerland. The rail system is phenomenal and the station shown in the picture has fourteen tracks and sixteen hundred trains a day come in and out of that station. They routinely run at a hundred and twenty five miles an hour. Most all trains are electric with a power unit on each end and some will separate at certain destinations and each half will go to a different destination. Another thing impressive with the Swiss and also the Austrians is there ability to build tunnels. Hundreds of them. They just completed one that is over thirty five miles long. Just think of boring two tubes through an alp mountain made up of mostly granite for thirty five miles. If you have any questions let me know. These pictures are of Luzern and Interlaken and I will post some more pictures in a few days of Bern and Zurick.

Thanks for sharing these great pictures Sir:

I was in several of the same towns/city's and area....1974...

Bob...

Wow! One of theses days I am going to make it to Germany. My family left there in 1870, grandpa was there in 1945 and dad was in 1966(uncle sam sent them).Thanks for the pics!

My sister's oldest daughter went there soon after college, stayed and married a Swiss native. She's been there probably at least 30 years. For many years now my sister and her husband go there for most the summer. They speak Swiss fluently, my ancestors immigrated from there and my parents often mixed Swiss with English when they spoke. I'm told things are expensive there.

Tom, your pictures are excellent! I'm really enjoying looking at these. I seem to be getting a feel for the place. Doubt I'll ever go there in my lifetime. Thank you for making the trip and sharing it for me. A pictorial experience.

Tom O.,

Fantastic photos! Surely do enjoy seeing these.

Can you and your wife just send a TINY taste of that Gruyere and Swiss chocolate to everyone on YT?

Terrific! thanks.

A few more. I just had to get that picture of those two Swiss combination zero-turn mower and fertilizer spreader machines in that had all the bells and horns rather than whistles.

My late wife and I had the pleasure of going there in 2001. We went to Zurich, Interlaken,Lucerne and to Bern. She was part of a Choir that sang in the International Music Festival in Bern. Bern meant bear in their language. In Bern they had a large compound of bears for the tourist to see and photograph. The buses were only allowed to idle for 5 minutes and then they had to be shut down to prevent pollution. It was the most beautiful country I have ever seen. The people were just wonderful.

wow pretty country!!! is the mountain in the first photo the Eiger?

Really great pictures makes me want to go back. I was stationed NW of Heidleburg Germany from 1969 to 1972 and then again in the early 1980's. I have been back there several times since then. I traveled almost all the time on weekends and loved the smaller towns in Germany, Austria, Italy and France. The streets were mopped everyday by the shop keepers. The baked goods were out of sight and I could gain a lot of weight from them. I was back there 3 year s ago in the Bamholder area and the way they farm over there in the Mts would give me a heart attack on the steep slopes. If you ever go back to Germany go up by the Rhine River in Koblenc' I watched guys working in a vineyard along the rhine and if you stood up straight the ground was a foot in front of your face. What I liked to hear was the cowbells on the cattle in the pastures. I would have liked to got one of the bells to bring home

Glenn, If I remember correctly they referred to it as Mt. Jungfrau. Everything was posted in meters but I think it converted out at about 13,600 feet.

Sweetfeet,

I so wish I could. I have always thought that you know when you are having a good time is when you wished that everybody that you know could be here with you. In over thirty days there was not a moment that we didn't enjoy. As always thank you for your kind compliments.

It sure looks like a wonderful trip. So glad that you and your wife both enjoyed it so.

Just out of high school, I was a live-in nanny for a couple of years for a physician and his wife. She was originally from Germany. They introduced me to many different foods than I grew up with... Gruyere cheese being one thing that was new to me. They showed me a different kind of living too (small mansion, Mercedes, tennis dates, hotel pool memberships in winter, afternoon tea everyday). They introduced me to people from all over the globe. It was a great experience.

The Swiss are a very disciplined people. Everything works and is on time. Quite a contrast to other places in the world.