On New Year's Eve Day we went to Lucerne and it turned out to be one of our favorite cities. We took a short tour of the glacier garden. It was interesting, but not terribly well curated which is strange because it has been a museum for over 100 years.
We lunched on the banks of Lake Lucerne on food we had pilfered from breakfast. Especially creative, Jason made dessert of open-faced Nutella and banana on challah sandwiches.
We walked over the Kapellbrucke a 14th century wooden bridge and saw crazy swiss people jumping into frigid water austensibly to celebrate the new year. They were whooping and sharing champagne. We weren't sure if they were whooping in celebration or chill.
The city is ringed by a medieval wall with sporatic watchtowers. We walked along the wall, but the towers were closed for the winter.
High on the top of the hill there was an amazing view of the city. I can't figure out how to post video so when we film one I'm going to upload it to YouTube. Most of the stores were closed for New Year's Eve, but the window shopping was still good. People in Switzerland must have a lot of liquid capitol. There are more collectibles stores there than anywhere else that we've been. There were philatelist's shops, numismatist's shops (yeah, just wanted to use those words), art galleries, shops that sold music boxes, musical instruments, doll house furniture, antique maps...
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