Zug, Switzerland - We visited Bern last weekend and we went for a hike up the Zugerberg. Bern Bern is the fifth largest city in Switzerland with a population of 140,000. It is the de facto capital; the Swiss constitution intentionally has no official capital, making a facto capital an administrative impossibility. However, this is where many (though, not all) government institutions are located, such as the parliament and the federal council. Bern, like so many Swiss cities, has a lovely old town that's very nice to stroll through. Cars are barred from driving on many of these cobblestone streets, but weirdly, trams are still permitted and they aren't particularly well separated from the pedestrians (see here ), so pedestrians will occasionally receive a horn to warn of impending bodily injury. Bears feature prominently in Bern - mostly in the form of symbols and legends, but also live bears. Legend has it that the founder of the city, Berthold V, Duke of...
Adventures living abroad in Switzerland.