Snow and sauerkraut

Today we drove to Luzern via Basle which is where this guy comes from.

And this is the street named after him in Biel where we are staying

Biel is also where this awesome athlete trains.  But she's in Auckland at the moment so we couldn't go visit her.

About halfway from Basle to Luzern, it started to snow.

It was snowing so badly we couldn't see very far in front of us and one guy even did a slow 180 as he wasn't driving to the conditions.  There were also some more tunnels.

This tunnel was before the snow.

Luzern is lovely.  It has a river running through it and old buildings on either side.  We went for a walk to see the big lion and also walked over the wooden bridge that crosses the river.  We did this after our late lunch.  I had sauerkraut for lunch which is what you need to do in this part of the world.

Last night for dinner we had fondue.  I successfully negotiated the first piece of bread however the second ended up in the cheese.  Luckily it wasn't a fondue of Asterix proportions and I was able to fish the bread out sucessfully.

We had a long day today in the car and we have an early start tomorrow as we are on the train to Florence.  I will add some pictures when I get them sent to me.