The breakfast was said to be full this morning as runners prepared for the Jungfrau marathon, a ridiculously difficult feat. Starting from Interlaken, they would run up to Kleine Scheidegg, which I showed you yesterday. The elevation difference between lowest and highest pointsnear around 5900 feet, and there’s plenty of up and down in there. Yet the winners are still under 3 hours!

We ate later than the runners though, and proceeded to marathon shop through Brienz and Interlaken for a few hours. We didn’t buy much as the Swiss are pretty proud of their handicrafts.

We spent a couple of hours at the Freilichtsmuseum, an open air city of historical buildings moved here from around the country, complete with artifacts and furniture, and some demonstrations in progress. It’s sort of like Colonial Williamsburg only more spread out and more rural. Among several interesting this was the sawmill powered by waterwheel.

it turns this:

into this:

though not at a very fast pace.

We then left the lakes for the capital city of Bern. We walked around the “platz”es seeing their colorful 16th century fountains and eventually eating a very European dinner al fresco. Tomorrow is our last day, though honestly I think we both are ready to head home after two great weeks here.

More cheese and dairy land tomorrow in Emmental and castles and medieval old towns in Aargau.