The pavement assembling the river of Aare is encumbered with wet and happy Switzerland, trimardant upstream in the bathing suits right to float again in the city. I join them — being filled with wonder to the way in which this exercise brings out of the idiots in people who are generally the polar opposite of awkward. Majestic streets of Bern line of arcades.

Every hundred yards that a balustrade with concrete stages carries out in the river of precipitation, which it blue glacial to seem but is surprisingly hot. Jumping inside, I am immediately taken in the current and propelled towards the large capital city of Switzerland among swimmers insousiants and a flotilla of the rafts of life out of rubber. Approaching the park of Marzilibad, I rub the surplus with the trap a metal balustrade — always a little nervous that I will miss last and will precipitate me towards the frightening outfall of the city and, it seems, forgets. To hang on the balustrade were a grandmother bronzed and stiff and several thoughtless children appreciating an afternoon clearly going through the river.

This evening for the dinner, I walk downstream to this alarming outfall where a restaurant last cry was literally established surplus the river of precipitation. I appreciate tasty local trout more see-with through boards while the noisy howl of the river of packing masks conversations of the Swiss beer sipping on the sofas in the open air. Strolling along the river after dining, I pass a water skiing of man in the current behind long, mischievous cord bungy attached to a tree. I reach the mascots, Pedro and Tana of the city. These two 26-year-old bear — people of the country known as which is extremely old for bears — are maintained in a well and one to be used concrete obsolete as targets to the pupils of the preparatory course throwing of groundnuts in the air. For the graffiti of years of the B.L.M (movement of release of bear) required better alive conditions for the captive old poor of Bern. (and the city apparently heard, because a new well cheerier — more acceptable for the animal activists — is in work.)

Not Miss Swiss whom the village maintains Alpine the call comfortable Bern is packed in a peninsula created by a curve tightened in the river. Crossing the river of the wells of bear I enter the old city — a pleasure to explore it with foot. The lanes are furnished with three miles of arcades, providing a good number of occasions of purchases. It is my kind of town of purchases: The prices are so high, it does not have no danger there to buy. The local slang for the corridor under these arcades is “Rohr” (German for the pipe). To stroll by the city is of going “Rohren” (whistling). While the city developed during centuries, each one of its successive walls and the ditches was torn downwards, providing vast, nobody-friendly ground bindings.

Today it is “with right angle ovals,” popular for markets and coffees external — the places of top to be seen in evening. The new and old buildings in all the city are uniform gray, crémeux sandstone of Bernese, extracts near. At the 16th century, the city commissioned many fountains coloured to light to the top of the gray urban landscape, to show in addition to richness of the city, and to point out citizens of large local heroes and events. They also gave to the local artists something to work above after the reform deprived them of their more important owner, the catholic church.

Cathedral of the 15th-century of Bern, once that the catholic, now protesting, is covered by a tower 330-foot-tall, highest in Switzerland. During the reform, the Protestants destroyed the religious icons. At the same time, 26 small vaults and separate furnace bridges devoted to Mary and the various saints have in the beginning decorated the church. When the reform came to the city in 1528, all this was swept far by the iconoclasts which believed that the images distracted from the admirers to concentrate on God. The new center of the attention was the desk from where the Protestant preachers shared the word of God, not in Latin, but in the language of the people.

Gatherings of the Parliament in the old city. You can sweep elbows with some legislators high power, but you would not know it — all looks at very occasional for a national capital. The fall in the welcome center of the Parliament and take the generous literature on the Swiss government. The constitution of the UNITED STATES inspired its bicameral system, with a great difference: The executive power is shared by a seven committee, with a ceremonious president turning and a passion for the consensus.

It is a mechanism to avoid encavateurs of power by any simple individual, a safeguard the this Swiss love. The fine granite plaza before the Parliament makes inject the 26 fountains (for each canton or state of Switzerland). Unconscious with the fact that half of the Swiss gold share is buried in strong Knox of the country under the place, kids dance with each aqueous eruption.

Although I said that it is almost criminal to spend one day Swiss anywhere sunny but high in the Alps, I would make an exception for Bern urban but easy to live.