Our trip to Switzerland - Part 2

We left Appenzell and took the train to Luzern, and we loved Luzern!

While on the train we passed many farms, and Swiss farms certainly are different than our farm here in Blain. Their houses are attached to their barns! I definitely wouldn't want our house to be attached to our barn. How do they keep the cow smell out of the house?

Ok, back to Luzern. It's a beautiful city, with a lot to see and do. Our room was on the top floor of this hotel, the room on the corner with all the windows. Great view!

The Reuss River and all its bridges is so beautiful and picturesque.

Chapel Bridge is just outstanding. The flowers were beautiful, and there were paintings inside.

The water tower was built around 1300.

While we were having dinner one evening I saw these men walking along the other side of the river carrying their alp horns, and I made Bob come with me in search of them. I wanted to hear what they sounded like, and it was worth the search. It was a very pretty sound, sort of low and peaceful.

This was just a window in a drug store, but doesn't it look like it was straight out of Harry Potter!

We read about the sweeping views from Mount Rigi and took the boat across Lake Luzern to catch the cog railway to the summit. Everything surrounding Lake Luzern is so beautiful I just couldn't stop taking pictures. Here are a few for you to see:

Mount Rigi, which is called Queen of the Mountains, boasts the oldest cog railway in Europe.

We soon realized that all the cows (or at least most of the cows) in Switzerland wear cow bells, and I loved to way they sounded.

We arrived at the summit and had a fun day walking around and enjoying the views.

Who are these people? Too bad the woman forgot to take her hiking hat off!

The top of Rigi Mountain = Rigi Kulm

We took the cable car back down the mountain.

Again, we enjoyed our boat ride back to Luzern. Yes, those are vineyards on the hillside, and we saw vineyards all over Switzerland's steep hillsides.

We read that the Swiss people are very proud of their clear, clean water, and you can fill your water bottles up at any of the many fountains they have in their cities and towns. There are over 1,200 unique water fountains in Switzerland, and we refilled our water bottles at them often. Isn't this one great!

Next stop - Lugano, via the William Tell Express!