We had wandered through the old town in search of dimmer the night before, sans camera. As I ate my breakfast I looked at the art work on the wall and decided we should detour into the centre on our way out. The town has some lovely old buildings. I think this is the town hall built over the old town market hall.
We had played around with mapping routes last night and decided to make the ride a tad longer but cut out nearly m climbing. This meant that we would follow the south eastern side of the lake before peeling off towards Bern. Our route headed away from the lake and up a hill into the village of Estavayer-le-Lac.
A lovely village. One was given Tipperary in Ireland making him Lord of Tipperary and was involved in the fall of Acre in The brothers built this castle with expansive views. We needed to ride through the Swiss capital of Bern.
A lovely city but this trip did not go through the centre but around it. It took well over one hour in busy traffic, including chunks of walking and scootering our bikes through heavy traffic. The camera did not come out as we concentrated on safety and navigation.
Once we cleared the city we could relax just a tad, but still on a busy arterial road until we joined the main bike trail. In the distance we have mountains again, part of the Berner Oberland range. We arrive in another busy city, Thun. The Aare is fenced off in one section and used for swimming. In a complex of pools. I guess going one way would be easy but when you turn to do,the second lap it would be strong resistance training.
