Another day - another country!

This morning we awoke to the sound of rain! This is our first rainy day in four weeks (yes, can you believe we have been gone that long?!). We donned our raincoats and walked the streets of Bern, the Swiss capital. A very pretty city, from what we saw, with lots of different shops, a flea market and cathedral. Interestingly, a lot of the shops were a sale point for the craftsman who make their own leather bags, dresses, knitwear, furniture, jewellery etc.

The cathedral in Bern

We also managed to find the best coffee we have had since we left home! So we had two each!

There were also chocolate cows...

And a clock that was supposed to do something amazing on the hour so we hung around until 12.00pm to catch it but we may have blinked or been dodging a bus because we think we missed it. It was an attractive and large clock though!

Alas, we did not find Roger Federer (Col did see a picture of him though!).

After the most beautiful train journey through the Swiss/Italian mountains we arrived in Milan.

Thankfully we made it safely to our hotel despite the umbrella sellers (I think they were selling Eiffel Towers yesterday) and the taxi driver who thought he would try out his half English half Italian on us. We understood most of what he was trying to tell us even though he drove most of the waving his hands in the air looking over his shoulder to see if we understood. Oh Italy!!

Lavendaria tomorrow!!!

 

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