5/10/19 Merligen Switzerland

A bright and sunny day found us ready to do some hiking in the lovely lakeside city of Merligen, so we walked along Thun (pronounced “tune”) Lake and into the mountains! Trails and paths are everywhere so we just wandered along. Twelve miles later we were done, so we cleaned up, had lunch al fresco on the patio and went to Interlaken to buy groceries at the Aldi . Aldi is the largest grocery chain in the world and also owns Trader Joes in the USA. Same selection, low prices, my kind of store!

On the way home, we stopped and watched people BASE jumping, that’s where you jump off a cliff and parachute down. They ski jump in the winter. Don’t want to get bored.😳

The road is filled with hard core cyclists on the lake. It’s a famous bike trip and the cyclists are daring to say the least.

We have enclosed a picture of our Airbnb, it’s three stories high, as are lots of Swiss homes in this area. If you look closely you’ll see it’s actually 3 different spaces, the bottom is where we are. The second level is an apartment and the top is where the owners live. This is a common theme when you look at Swiss homes, most are multi family homes. The homes are worth about 2 million. As we said, things are expensive in Switzerland.

Nice long walk this AM on the lake, with rain moving into the area for the next day or so. We will visit the neighboring city’s this afternoon.

PS Don’t think I’ve mentioned this, but on the blog home page if you hit the media button you’ll see additional pictures.

Cheers, Mike and Cindy