It took me two hours on a train to reach Bern! A fun fact is that the whole country of Switzerland is about a third of the size of the New York State. You can drive across the whole country in about four hours!
Geneva is exactly 4,126 miles from my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so I have already come quite far! From Geneva, the city that I visited this week, Bern, is about 100 miles away. That means I have traveled a total of 4,226 miles on my journey so far!
In Switzerland, you can easily take a train to anywhere in the country. While a lot of people have cars, it is much easier to take trains and they connect to every city, big or small, across the country. The trains are often very clean, are always on time and are not very expensive. There are airports in Geneva and Zurich, but most Swiss people prefer to take trains to get around.
This week, I took a visit to the capital city of Switzerland, Bern! Some of my friends live in this city and I decided to pay them a visit and see a new spot. Since I live in the French-speaking city of Geneva, it was very cool to see the German-speaking city of Bern. Albert Einstein lived a lot of his life in Bern and you can see tributes to him all over the city.
My favorite thing I saw in this city was a woman using an alphorn in the streets. An alphorn was used a long time ago for people in the mountains to communicate with each other. Now, the alphorn is an important part of Swiss tradition and is used as a musical instrument.
