Day 13 - Ballenberg, Switzerland

What a day. We took the train down to Interlaken, then over to Brienz to catch a bus to the Ballenberg Open-Air museum. It has 163 acres of more than a hundred traditional and historical buildings brought from all over Switzerland. The walk was still challenging (after all, were in the Swiss alps). It was a very nice, cloudy, cool, serene day...and then the silence was broken by F-18 fighter jets screaming off into the sky from a nearby airport, echoing throughout the valley. That's ok, I don't mind an airshow while I look at farmhouses.

I had thought of taking the boat either gong to or coming back from the museum on Lake Brienz. But another lesson, no matter how much you plan, there are always complications. The schedule I was looking at for the boat times was a little confusing. I ended up reading it wrong and we would have had to wait about 2 hours to catch the boat in the morning. We found out when we asked the train conductor, who carries a mini computer. And we did want to be rushed to catch a boat coming back. But I got some good pictures of it.

We stopped back in Interlaken to eat and then walked around some of the shops. 

We saw about a dozen paragliders coming over the mountain and landing in a field in town.

They obviously have Segway tours.