{"id":153,"date":"2011-09-10T20:45:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T20:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/?p=153"},"modified":"2011-09-10T21:00:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T21:00:24","slug":"the-lakes-and-bern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"The Lakes and Bern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s plenty of up and down in there.  Yet the winners are still under 3 hours!<\/p>\n<p>We ate later than the runners though, and proceeded to marathon shop through Brienz and Interlaken for a few hours.  We didn&#8217;t buy much as the Swiss are pretty proud of their handicrafts.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s sort of like Colonial Williamsburg only more spread out and more rural.  Among several interesting this was the sawmill powered by waterwheel.<\/p>\n<p>it turns this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110910-103927.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110910-103927.jpg\" alt=\"20110910-103927.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>into this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110910-104020.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110910-104020.jpg\" alt=\"20110910-104020.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>though not at a very fast pace.<\/p>\n<p><video src=\"http:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110910-103555.mov\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"568\" height=\"320\">Your browser does not support the video tag<\/video><\/p>\n<p><video src=\"http:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110910-103645.mov\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"568\" height=\"320\">Your browser does not support the video tag<\/video><\/p>\n<p><video src=\"http:\/\/thinkum.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110910-103802.mov\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"568\" height=\"320\">Your browser does not support the video tag<\/video><\/p>\n<p>We then left the lakes for the capital city of Bern.  We walked around the &#8220;platz&#8221;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.<\/p>\n<p>More cheese and dairy land tomorrow in Emmental and castles and medieval old towns in Aargau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s plenty of up and down in there. 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