My week in Thun, Switzerland

This has been a fabulous week with the Sommer's. I can not thank them enough for their hospitality and kindness. I am already sad to leave but looking forward to seeing the Grant's tomorrow. They have an 80 km route planned for us and we will meet at the train station near their home then continue by train to our starting town. To recap the week, on Monday I was a vegetable; Tuesday I toured Thun; Wednesday I got a massage and toured Thun some more; Thursday I rode to Bern to tour the city with Christian, then rode back in the RAIN; Friday I took the ferry to Interlaken, then had an AWESOME dinner at the SusAdi Restaurant, Saturday I went WAKEBOARDING on Thuner See. Pics are below:

The view of Thuner See from the Sommer's veranda.

The castle in Thun on the river Aare.

Two or three times a day, Adi takes his hunting dogs Falno and Talla on a walk. The Swiss are also big on hunting for mushrooms and I was fed handsomely this week with their fresh catch!

This is Adi and hunting partners' lodge that they use. Hunting season starts next weekend and Adi and colleagues are busy preparing for the first hunt.

The Munster Cathedral along the river Aare.

A view from the top of the Munster. The three clock towers show where the outer walls were after expanding the city to these borders. Bern is only 800 years old.

The infamous, and well fed, Bern bears!

A view of Thuner See from the ferry.

"Delightfully tacky, yet always UNREFINED". Interlaken, Switzerland

The USFDA asked that I make sure the food was up to par. The wings were perfectly American, although the waitresses are not.....

My dinner "date", Catherine! We had a very delicious dinner and the company was exceptional!

The very tired but appreciated, Adi and Susan Sommer. Thank you again for a wonderful time!

I HAD to say I.ve been on the lake in Europe, at least once! The water was too choppy for me to slalom. And considering the lake will be gone and it.ll be October when I get back, I had to do it!

This picture might have to be framed, what a backdrop!

Marc from Michigan, but living and working in Switzerland, shows Matt, Josh and I how to wakesurf. I hope you guys have figured it out since I.ve been gone. We need a better WAKE, look at the size of this Malibu!