John and I on Chapel Bridge Lucerne Switzerland . Castle Meggenhornon on hill in background. Bridge goes to Jesuit Church we toured.
Covered Wooden Spreuer Bridge over Reuss River. Jesuit Church in background.
Lion Monument-Lucerne Switzerland. Carved out of rock mountain to honor the swiss guards during the French Revolution that died (more than 700) defending their royal family Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette and their children.
John S. on the covered wooden bridge. The eaves have old painted pictures of the history of Lucerne and the wars fought.
We were on our way to France and Italy but - I had been working on the itinerary and found a really quaint town to see on the way. It was called Lucerne (English and French) Lucerna (Italian) and Luzern (swiss and german). Well our GPS (poor thing) does'nt know what language she is and got confused as to where we wanted to go. I checked the road map thinking we should be getting there , but their road maps make no sense at all. Sure enough we had missed it. I was so mad at "Gips" (GPS) because that was one place I really wanted to see. It was built in 750. wow. In 1168 a walking wooden bridge was built over river Reuss to connect to the church. Lots of medieval stuff here I love to see. Just think who all must have walked on those old cobblestone streets in these old towns like Lyon France and Lucerne. I could almost see Picasso or Napolean coming down the street. I kept telling John all of this so he turned around and went back. That's when our trip started getting messed up. We spent way too much time there and on top of all that, it was up in the Alps (another BIG story).
2 comments:
You can always count on John Stanley to make things right. Glad you guys backtracked and got to check it out.
Wow, that looks so neat and see, if you would not have turned back you would not have experience those wonderful memories. I want to hear more!
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