Summer in Bern

If last week I took you to summer Zurich, this time we are travelling to Bern, the capital of Switzerland. We have already been there, remember? It was during a beautiful and cold autumn day. Golden tones dominated the city, the scent of roasted chestnuts filled the air and the bears of Bern were still playing in their pit before their winter hibernation…

I love the city of Bern since the very first time I visited it. There’s something very unique in this Swiss city. Maybe it is the fact that it doesn’t look like any other Swiss city I know. That’s specially true when you compare Bern to other cities in the German speaking part of Switzerland. I love its unique architecture: the long main streets in the city centre, the identical grey buildings with their beautiful arcades, the hints of color of the baroque fountains, the geraniums on the windows and the cantonal flags waving gently… I like to watch the three bears of Bern in their renovated and larger pit, taking baths in the Aare river, eating honey from the hives in the trees and ignoring all the tourists and visitors observing them from the distance… I specially love the views of the old city that you get after climbing the incredibly steep street to the Rosengarten…

This summer we went to Bern again when my brother and his wife visited us. It was a scorching summer day with beautiful blue skies. Lots of tourists were buzzing in the old town of Bern. There were a lot of terraces full of people enjoying the sun and buskers added a cheerful soundtrack to the day. It was so different to the other times I visited the city! This time, we just visited the city centre, as we wanted to leave with enough time to travel back to Zurich driving through the valley of Emme (yes, where the Emmental cheese comes from!)… We wandered through the busy streets of Bern, enjoyed watching the bears going about their businesses and the children playing in the fountain in front of the Bundeshaus (the Swiss Parliament), refreshed ourselves in every single fountain we saw in our way and ate delicious Swiss food at a local restaurant…

Here are some photos I took during this trip. I hope you like them!