Europe – Day 3 – Brunnen, Ibach and Steinhausen

Had a really nice nights sleep. The entire house looks like it was purchased from IKEA. We even had the same cabinet poles in the kitchen as we do at home. Breakfast was a combination of toast small sandwiches with sausage and cheese as well as cereal with yogurt or milk. We looked out our bedroom window and saw an field of cows with mountains behind. After walking around and taking pictures, we climbed into the car and headed for Brunnen.

The GPS directed us and the drive was absolutely beautiful. Rolling green hills chalets and ice camped mountains everywhere. We drove through several more tunnels. The Swiss really seem to like tunnels and the towels are amazingly clean inside. Unlike the tunnels around New York City.

We arrived in Bruning and the town looks like it came right out of a postcard. We took pictures along the lake with the mountains behind it is just amazingly pretty. Had a little bit of adventure trying to figure out parking. Of course all the signs are in German, and although the kids have a translator app it’s still a little tricky. We wait until someone came by and showed us how to get a one hour free parking ticket and then we went to the visitors center to get more information. The easiest solution is to have a bunch of change which we did not have, so we went to the bank and cashed a 20 Franc note.

After talking to our new friend Nick in the visitor center, we walked down to the water, took photos, and checked out the local souvenir shop. We then took next recommendation for lunch which was delicious we hand schnitzel with a wonderful toasted potato, the worlds largest locker. We also had meatloaf stuffed in a casing with risotto. we also had an order of Shweta and an order of ravioli it was delicious. After lunch we cross the street to Victorinox where we put together our own knives and then had them engraved. It was really a lot of fun. We bought some additional souvenirs watch the video and headed out. Unfortunately by then it had started raining so we ball them in the car and drove down the road to a chocolate factory which didn’t have tours but got samples and bought some to take home.

Before we left town, we made a stop at the barn half Market or the train station market hoping it would be a shopping mall. But to our disappointment it was two supermarkets and a mattress store. We didn’t do some grocery shopping is the prices were better than the last place you went to and then we hit the road. Unfortunately it was still raining so we decided not to go on the high wire rope bridge. Hopefully the weather will clear and will do that another day. Then the traffic backed up so we decided to pull off and luckily found a More traditional shopping mall. We saw a variety of interesting stores here including a spray which we thought he had clothes along time ago we also found the store that had a coffee bar and sold coffee machines and athletic sport where. Really interesting combination. Was very interesting to see people pushing shopping carts through the mall some people had cards filled with groceries others head had cards filled with items from other mall stores.

Some differences from US malls. The shoe store looks much nicer than she stores and you are small because there are no boxes all of the shoes are paired up in on Shell‘s so it’s hard to control live in Tori but looks a lot nicer. There is also an erotic make a store in the mall with a sign that says you have to be 17 or older to go in. Not something that you normally see in US malls.

I didn’t know that Dysan makes hairdryers. The one we saw here cost $450. Everything in Switzerland is very expensive. The food is been expensive. We just want to throw bookstore and even the paper bags are $23. The same swell bottle that sells for $30 in the US is $55 here.

Taking a walk through a very large supermarket and it seems like half of the store is meat. There is a giant charcuterie section larger than any I’ve seen in any store ever and I think all the stores like this and next to that is another large package meat section and that is even get us to the butcher area.

As we left the mall we found a really cool swirly chair that you could spin around and it felt like you were about to fall out. Luckily nobody did but we have lots of fun videos.

And we learned that the car is less than 1.9 m tall when we drove straight through a parking space that warned us that cars had to be 1.9 meters or less or get the room scraped.

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