Bern Wanderings 1

As I'm sure you all know, Bern is the capitol of Switzerland, though it's population is only 130,000. So it has a nice small town feeling. The old town area is very nice - long streets filled with stores with statues in random places in the middle of the street or on the buildings.

We had a cold and rainy day but still took plenty of pictures. Here are some pictures of the statues in the middle of the streets:



This one is a bear:



And some statues sticking out from the sides of buildings:





There are also some big clocks in Bern:





We visited Albert Einstein's apartment (look there he is in the window!):



Einstein's street:



He lived in Bern when he developed his theory of special relativity. Neat.

Even though it was cloudy out, you could see the mountains in the distance:





To be continued in part 2.