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My dad is visiting us during these couple of weeks and for a long time we wanted to visit the Qin Terracotta Warriors exhibition in Bern, so finally yesterday we thought this would be a good opportunity to do it together, so we booked a car and visited the swiss capital to watch this interesting exhibition. When we ended our visit to Bern, after getting quite a few ice creams in such a hot summer day, we decided to visit also Thun, located only 30 km south of Bern. This city has a beautiful landscape where the River Aar flows out of the Lake Thun. When we were walking towards the lake we saw some charming old wooden bridges like the ones you can observe in this picture.

Everytime I go to Berlin I'm very quickly reminded why this my favorite European city. As soon as I’m getting close to Alexanderplatz, I feel excited to realize that I’m again visiting the German capital. The first time I visited the city was 7 years ago and it’s amazing how the city have changed in that short time: The palace of the republic is gone, the hauptbahnhof is completed and the area around the parliament is getting nicer and nicer. Each time I visit Berlin I get the opportunity to see something new I haven’t seen before and this time it was not an exception: When we were walking near to Postdamer platz we saw a small flyer talking about a watching tower and indeed we found hidden by a tree one of the last remaining surveillance symbols of the GDR.

Last weekend I was in Zurich enjoying the last day of the festival Zueri Faescht. I wasn't aware but my friend A. told me this festival only takes place every three years, so I'm glad I made it even if it was only for the last day. The city was absolutely packed and there was music and food all over and plenty of shows. One of the most impressive ones in my opinion was the tightrope walk between the towers of St. Peters Church and the Grossmunster cathedral, over the Limmat river by Alfons Bügler. It was really spooky to see this tighrope walker to go from one church to the other without any protection. I took this photo when he was starting the walk in St. Peters.

In my fourth visit to Poland I had the chance to visit a very picturesque town at the banks of the vistula river: Kazimierz Dolny. K. Mentioned the town when we were in Switzerland so I was very curious and I was not disappointed at all. The city has a very interesting architecture with former warehouses restored to their former glory. It's also possible to climb a small hill to get a beautiful view of the river and the city center, that you can observe here in this picture taken earlier today.

Some weeks ago a Polish colleague recommended us a small city near Colmar called Riquewihr, that he described as a gorgeous medieval city located in the mountains with an old walled center. Today we decided to head north into France to visit this place and we were able to corroborate this place is indeed one of the most beautiful town in the Alsatian region. We were reading that during WWII this was one the few places that was spared from destruction, since it was relatively hidden in a cul-de-sac, so there are many houses from the 15th century really well preserved. One of the perks of visiting this place is the route to get there, since you pass through several vinicole plantations and some other nice towns as well. In one of the towers surviving the original wall built by the Duke of Horburg in the 13th century, you can visit a museum with the history of the city. Its called Dolder in Alstatian, meaning the highest point, where I took this picture.

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