Please Don't Push Me Into the Trolley

Our journey today brought us to Luzern and Basel, Switzerland. Luzern is home to the longest covered bridge in Europe, known as the Chapel Bridge. The Chapel Bridge and Watch Tower were built in the 14th Century and have been used as fortifications for the city, a prison, and as a treasury vault. We watched an active archeological dig near some road construction, where old foundations were exposed and archaeologists were digging, scraping, dusting, measuring and labeling.

We went to Coop City, a kind of department and grocery store where we compared prices here to those at home. Switzerland is also one country which still maintains its own currency, the Swiss Franc, instead of the Euro.

Our lunch in Luzern was a ham and cheese sandwich, on a pretzel. There are pretzel stands everywhere. Switzerland is also the first country in which we have seen Starbucks and Claires.

We're based in Basel for the night, we walked to the old marketplace, the old cathedral and saw the Rhine River, which runs through town. Like New Jersey, Basel is home to many pharmaceutical companies.

All of the fast trains to Paris are sold out, so tomorrow we take a leisurely, but longer, trip to the City of Lights for Easter Weekend.

See You All Soon