I have travelled a fair bit in my life so far. Many many miles around the UK and more than the average around Europe and the USA but I think several of the views from yesterday will beat everything I have ever seen before.
We started off the day with a trip to the swimming pool attached to the Bern Westside hotel. Slightly disappointed to be honest that their wasn't a pool in the hotel grounds and that we had to put in the effort to go to the local aqua-park. Very tempted when I got up to not bother going but so very very glad I did. The pool was a marvel of Swiss engineering situated below a shopping cents and including a large pool, another large pool, a small pool for children, a super cool plunge pool, and outside pool and more slides and flumes than I could keep track off. Everything immaculately clean and designed in a stylish but elegant manner. I think I am safe in saying this was by far the best swimming pool complex I have ever seen and ever the better for being free to hotel guests. If they made something that good back home I would swim every day.
After the pool we set off for Zürich but as we had a shorter journey than usual, we took a diversion along the shores of Lake Thunerzee and through the town of Interlaken. That lake is truly gorgeous, a brilliant turquoise blue fed by the glacial snow melt of the surrounding mountains. At one stop it was 21 degrees Celsius outside as we stared across the lake but we could still see snow on the distant Alps. Awesome does not even come close to how beautiful it was and I already know I want to return to the area to swim at the pool again and to explore the surroundings more.
We ended the day crossing the Albis pass and arriving in our hotel for the next two nights, the Holiday Inn Express at Affolten Am Albis about 15 miles south of Zürich.
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