The binoculars caught my attention as soon as I entered my suite at the Hotel Bellevue Palace in Bern, Switzerland. From my window, I could see the River Aare. Through the binoculars, I could gaze at ...
Bern is Switzerland's beautiful capital city, 55 mi/90 km west of Lucerne. It was destroyed by a fire in 1405 and then totally rebuilt, so it has many fine examples of early-15th-century ...