I’ll confess up front that going to Bern was a bit of an unnecessary extravagence. I forget now exactly how much the return fare for two people turned out to be, but I know I did a double take when the machine asked me for the required number of francs and wondered hopefully if I might possibly have pressed something wrong. I hadn’t, but my desire to escape French speaking Switzerland to a part of the country where they use a proper language was great enough for me to pay for the tickets regardless (more…)