Switzerland First Impressions

Today is already day 4 in Switzerland and Anita and I love it here. The weather is perfect and where we are staying is beautiful. We're staying at a lovely bed and breakfast in Spiez, Switzerland which is a lovely town on the side of the Thunersee Lake in Central Switzerland, about half an hour from the capital, Bern, by rail. The train station is a short 10 minute walk from here and we can go pretty much anywhere we want by train in Switzerland in 3 hours. It is so easy to get around by train that many people don't have cars. We are staying in the loft that has a balcony on both sides of the house with a view of the town on one side and the lake and mountains on the other. We are using this town as a base to see the whole country, but it is so nice that we want to just stay put some of the time instead of racing around every day.

Yesterday we took the Glacier Express train from Chur in eastern Switzerland to the town of Zermatt at the foot of the Matterhorn. The scenery was beautiful along the way and at the Matterhorn. We lucked out with great weather since we arrived here.