Travel... What A Way To Go... Part 4

Back In Switzerland, our friends did some traveling around and so they went to the hometown of the husband of the couple that  they were visiting.  He comes from a town call Brienz. In Brienz you will find beautiful scenery like this...

towering 5800 ft above Lake Brienz is the Rothorn (mountain). Our friends stepped aboard a  steam engine driven train which took them to the summit. The train in their photos looked quite benign but when I went looking for pictures of it I found these.... and they look anything but benign....

and this...

Brienz is a town where wood carvings abound and once I saw the pictures of it I realized why when in Canada the husband who came from there would do so much with wood carvings...his wood carvings were very folksy.  Still it brings them back to Canada ocasionally as they enjoy entering the ice carving contest in FSJ.

Next our friends went to Lake Lucerne. Lake Lucerne is surrounded by picturesque scenery and opulent buildings/vacation homes.  when I saw it I thought of the movie The Sound Of Music and the scene where Maria and the children down a country lane on bike singing Do Ra Me.... (only that actually happened in Saltzburg, Austria).

Have a look at these vistas....

The area is steeped in history ...

...and houses are traditional in the Swiss style....

But land is expensive... $4,000,000 for the smallest and steepest of pieces of property. I can only imagine how difficult it is to purchase land anywhere in Switzerland.

After Lucerne our friends were fortunate to be able to take in the local pumpkin festival.  Now here I ran into problems. I wasn't able to find any pictures from the pumpkin festival. Evedently the Swiss are absolutely besotted with pumpkins. They don't only carve them but build great structures riminicent of the rose bowl parade only not with roses... no indeed.... the Swiss like to use pumpkins. They build all manner of things from cows to hands held high in the air and the use pumpkins to do it.

I will end here today... and tomorrow I will bring you the last installment of Travel...  What A Way To Go. We will be visiting Warsaw Poland and we will be visiting a wind mill in the Netherlands. So come back and join me....