Farewell Lucerne

 Before we left Lucerne we took in a Swiss Folk Dinner Show.  The dinner included Swiss Fondu.  The show included yodeling, the singing of Edelweiss, the harmonizing of three alpen horns and a guy who played music using partially filled bottles.  There are four 10 second videos that are attached.  

Early Tuesday had us up and out of our hotel and heading to Mount Stansahorn.  The weather did not cooperative.  At an elevation of 6200 feet we were surrounded by fog during our 35 minute hike up to the summit.  Breaking only briefly.  Even though the weather was not good it was an experience I’ve never had before and will probably never have again. 

We had a 1.5 hour ride from the mountain to Huningue, a French suburb of the Swiss city of Basel and embarked on our Avalon ship, The View.  The bus we were in was the bus used by the Swiss Women’s Soccer team and was painted as such causing a number of cars to drive by, honk and wave.  During the ride our tour guide told us a little more about Switzerland.  58% of all Swiss residents are renters.  She also said that they are a true democracy and have national votes four times per year.   Switzerland is not part of the European Union.  

Tuesday afternoon we still had time to walk across the Tri-Country bridge linking Germany and France and is about 100 yards from Switzerland.