Well, it had to end some time, but we left Lauterbrunnen on Sunday. Feels like we were there for two weeks, not 2 and a half days. On our way to Lucerne, we stopped at a tourist spot, Ballenberg, which was basically a Swiss version of Sovereign Hill. The main diffeerence being it wasn't based around gold mining, but simply Swiss living and housing through the ages and areas of Switzerland. It was really excellent, with cheese making, pottery, black-smith's, manual farming, old thatch cottages etc. and Kerryn's favorite - a chocolatier's. Went on to Lucerne, were we checked out the Lion monument - twice. I saw this amazing sculpture last time I was here, and it is - for some reason - very moving, just to look at it. We spent a nice morning walking
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