We decided to check out the Museggmauer, the old city walls of Lucerne. The oldest part of the wall dates back to 1386.
Jessica standing in front of the wall.
There are nine towers attached to the wall, the second one (the one in the foreground), looking back to Saint Leodegar church on the left and the first tower in the middle.
You can actually go up in the 4th, 5th, and 6th towers, and walk along the top of the wall between them.
Looking out from the 4th (Schirmer) to the 5th (Zyt).
The oldest city clock, dating to 1535, is in the Zyt tower. It also has the privilege of chiming one minute early every hour before all other city clocks.
Inside the Zyt tower looking at the actual inner workings of the clock.
Looking up at the Zyt tower from below.
We just missed being up there at noon, which would have been very loud. However, we were nearby, and it was one minute early, and then all the other clocks started. Instead of the normal ring and then 12 dongs for noon, all the clocks in the city went off for five minutes!
Me climbing up into one of the towers.
We then decided to try to find a castle. After a little research, we hoped on a train headed for Lenzburg. From the train station, it was about a 1/2 hour walk to a castle.
Schloss Lenzburg, or Lenzburg Castle, the Castle of Knights and Dragons.
It was free to visit with our Swiss Rail Pass, and was really cool. It was originally built around 1100, but had changed hands over the years and continually fortified through the Middle Ages.
Drinking an Avery IPA, brewed in Boulder, Colorado in the Schloss Lenzburg, Switzerland.
Jessica in the garden at Schloss Lenzburg.
Standing in front of one of the many buildings in the courtyard at Schloss Lenzburg.
Looking back at Schloss Lenzburg from the town.
We then walked back to the train station and boarded a train for Basel, a city in northern Switzerland on the border with France and Germany where Jovan currently lives.
Jessica in Basel, on the banks of the Rhine River, with the Mittlere Brücke (Middle Bridge) in the background.
We met Jovan for dinner and headed back to his apartment for the evening.
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