Bern - a little bit of France, a little bit of Germany.....and lots of bears

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We made a rather hurried dash from the hotel in Paris to the pickup point for the bus, I call bullshit on the 4km google maps said it was. We got there dead on 8am to find a big blue bus with no one around. At least we werent late.

Jumped on the bus and made our way out of Paris through the crazy Parisian traffic. Was good once we hit the express way and started heading through the farms and stuff east of Paris. Quite pretty with the odd castle looking thing every half hour or so.

Made it into Bern about 7ish, and hiked up through the town to the backpackers we were staying at. Hotel Glocke is in the old part of town with the cobblestone streets and old buildings and tonnes of fountains.

Spent the next two days wandering around Bern, not doing too much other than walking and taking in the sites with the odd photo here and there. There is some pretty amazing gothic architecture around the place.

Anyways off to Lauterbrunen tonight then on to Nice tomorrow morning.

Photos to follow eventually 😊

John

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