Frieburg is a 25 min train ride from Bern. On the windows screen :), they were showing gently undulating green hills. Houses, farms, forests, fields, cows and deer. Yup spotted ones. Cute and cuddly till I realized that it was a venison farm.
Frieburg - In about 2 hours, early morning walkaround, saw church with brilliant stained glass. There's a crypt which gave me the goosebumps because it was dark when I entered and as I crossed the threshold, the lights came on.
As always, stone trough fountains adorned with multi coloured flowers. Cafes hadn't opened and the town was just waking up. Walked up to one of the oldest wooden bridge and what do you know.. They let vehicles through.
Apparently the Bible museum is worth the visit as it has history of European culture. The Marionette museum is the other Frieburg attraction. Gave both a miss though. Time issues.
Went back to Bern, collected luggage and took this long way round train to Lucerne which goes through Interlaken. An hour's halt at Interlaken should've been lakeside but spent too much time at the supermarket over lunch purchases that sadly no touching lake happened.
But, the train ride was totally worth it. Went all along the blue green lake with cloud capped hills in the background and blue and white boats bobbing on the edge of the tile-roofed town. Went through farmland, laden apple trees and reached a station where the direction changed and then the train started climbing. Up up to the pass near Hasliberg station. Then down around another lake and another or perhaps that's just one giant uneven splotch of an emerald lake and I get to see all of it.
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