Today was spent doing chores and
sightseeing.
The campground was close to the city so we
walked into town in the morning – about 2kms around beautiful Lake
Lucerne. The vista from the city was
lovely with the lake teeming with sailboats and people enjoying the warm
weather.
Lucerne has an “old” and “new”city. The view from the ramparts at the back of the
old city was stunning. Lovely old tower clocks
have been preserved and are on show in part of the ramparts. Buildings and their eaves are often highly
decorated and it’s lovely just wandering around and discovering little plazas
with even more features.
Over the last couple of days there has been
an increase in the number of hikers we have seen. They are highly catered for with a fantastic
signage system, not unlike the bike path signage, although these signs show
distances in hours and minutes!
We forgot to mention that a few days ago we
rode across three airfield runways, with boom gates to stop the traffic if a
plane is landing! It was obviously a
base used by the army. No-one showed any
sign of concern at us being there.
Last night the campground was bursting at
the seams and we ended up sharing our site with two one man tents. One of the guys was walking from Rome to Geneva
across the Swiss Alps! The other guy was
a bike rider who we knew was French. He
had spent one night in France on his ride, the last night in Lucerne, but we
couldn’t fathom where he was going to or where he was from!
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