Bern is a very cute town with lots of bears everywhere. There are fountains with bears in armour, bears in clocks and bears in flags. There are also lots of cobblestones and lots of chocolate shops. Hugh and I bought up big with the chocolates, mainly for gifts I have to say. I am very juvenile and enjoyed the clock tower which had bears going around and statues of men with timers and cocks crowing. Very kitsch and fun.
We drove to Geneva and met up with an old Oxford friend of ours, Damien and his family. We had a very amusing evening reminiscing and catching up over gins and tonics, champagne and red wine. Strangely I had a bit of a headache in the night. Damien is a professor of Latin and Jocelyn a classics researcher so we had a good discussion about ancient Rome and where Hannibal crossed the alps and with how many elephants.
Today we left Switzerland, crossed through France and the Mt Blanc tunnel and returned home to Italy through Genoa and Pisa this time. It was an interesting if slightly terrifying trip with lots of trucks, tunnels and views of the Ligurian sea. Hugh is a driving legend. It was nice to return to our house in Tuscany and the peace and quiet. We survived the drive!
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