Our afternoon train rides ended in Lucerne. Lucerne or Luzern are one and the same depending on your spoken language. We walked/limped from the train station to our hotel, Hotel Des Alpes, located on the Reuss River overlooking the Chapel Bridge, an historic covered wooden bridge. Chapel Bridge is the oldest wooden bridge in Europe, constructed in 1333, designed to help protect the city of Lucerne from attacks. Our balcony was beautifully situated to see the lake, bridges and mountains.
We took to the streets and bridges before sunset. The covered bridges were nice to walk across. We could only think how beautiful it must be in the spring when flowers are lining posts and rails. I had the impression that the wooden bridges had famous paintings lining the interior apexes. So after researching even more I found that after near destruction by fire the paintings, depicting the city’s history and biblical accounts, were moved to the city archive building. In my opinion the pictures today were random in nature and not my taste.
We popped into The Church of the Jesuits of Lucerne to see painted ceilings and Baroque architecture. I had not realized upon entering that there was a curtain separating the sanctuary from the small foyer until we left. The curtains were heavy and thick. It reminded me of the curtains of the temples referenced throughout the Bible.
We walked through Old Town, which was empty on a Sunday afternoon.
We replenished with food from a local brewery, Rathaus Brauerei. I returned to the hotel to rest my throbbing ankle and watch the sunset. Randy explored more of the old city.
We returned to the brewery for a late night dinner. We ended a nice night at another brewery sampling drinks from Switzerland and enjoying music from the 90’s and 2000’s. We decided no news from the kids was good news.
Lees in France 