It is a beautiful morning. A little foggy but start a list by the time we left.

We were a little concerned that the Cowells weren’t in the field behind our place when we woke up this morning. But nothing to worry about. They were in their pen with a vertically mounted rotary brush.

Saw some interesting things on the way into Lucerne. We passed a man in electrified wheelchair walking his dog on the road. Speaking of the road, all the roads leading to and from our Airbnb are slightly larger than one lane, which means that you need to be on constant work and ready to pull to the side of the road every time a car approaches from the other direction. You get used to it but it still a little bit of an adventure driving anywhere.

On the drive into Lucerne we passed a very hard statue of a man that someone had put a cloth thong on.

Ryan drove this morning and did a terrific job of navigating city traffic. It’s need to be in a city where everything is so old. We crossed over the Chappell bridge which was built in the 14th century.

We found the visitor center and got help with finding a boat tour and information on the walking tour. We used the public WC which was really pretty clean. Who is Turner walking tour while crossing back over the lake on the main bridge and then walk through it very expensive shopping area. We stopped at the Ashley bar for pastries. After enjoying our pastries we visited the Church of Saint Ledger in the Court a beautiful church to do back to the 1600s. The artwork inside was beautiful. We then left the church tune enjoy reading menus and windowshopping.

We walked to the dine lion of Lucerne monument. It was very touching about the massacre of Swiss troops during the French revolution. We then started a souvenir shop and made a new friend named Pat who told us about growing up in the Philippines and his family in the states and he also pointed out some great restaurants for us to go and eat while we are in the city. We walked through the old city until we found the Rathaus Brewery which Pat recommended. Heather and Ryan each tried the local beer and we enjoyed a delicious lunch with a mixture of meats and vegetables, delicious sausage and sauerkraut, wheat beer soup, and a pork sandwich or a pretzel roll. The fresh grated horseradish and horseradish mustard were spicy and delicious.

After lunch we walked up the hill to the wall that protected the city bill three or 400 years ago. There were 910 hours including one clock tower originally built in we climbed up the first tower and the clock tower. There’s not a surprise we walked over 40 or 50 flight of stairs today! The Clocktower was especially interesting as we could see the working mechanisms for the clocks. After we left the Clocktower we walked around the wall and back down to the water and and saw the mechanism switch control the height of the lake.

Our next activity was a very enjoyable boat tour with audio headsets so we can see the site and hear the history of the town and on the way. One of the buildings we saw on the tour from the boat was the casino, so I have to tour we went to the casino and won $40 playing roulettes.

After the casino it was time to find a place to eat. Pat, our friend from the souvenir shop, recommended several Thai restaurants in addition to the brewery where we had lunch. We found one and the food was delicious. We had spring rolls, a curry dish and a noodle dish.

On the way back to they apartment we stopped and an Aldi and went shopping. Just like home, it had really good prices. Tonight we’re doing laundry and getting ready to get up early tomorrow for our trip to the mountains.

We’ve been listening to a really good radio station as we drive around. It has played everything from the backstreet boys to 1980s Swiss pop. Tonight it was playing accordion music and German drinking songs.

A couple of observations about driving in Switzerland. In addition to the country roads only be in a battle lane wide, they don’t have stop signs at four way intersection’s, see you’ve got to pay attention and look for cars and drive intelligently. Red lights also turn yellow before they turn green, which is a really good idea so you know when the light is about to change.