While on Tauck’ Rhine, Alps and Amsterdam tour, we first explored Bern and then headed to Jungfraujoch in the Alps. Next we visited Lucerne which is the focus of this post. A highlight would be seeing the Chapel Bridge (Kapellbrücke in German) pictured below. The Chapel Bridge is a covered wooden footbridge over the Reuss River. It was named after St. Peter’s Chapel, a nearby Catholic Church. The bridge contains a number of interior paintings dating back to the 17th…
We visited San Francisco in 2008 and just returned from visiting again. We stayed at a hotel near the Embarcadero for both of our visits. Prior to the 1989 earthquake, a double-decker highway, the Embarcadero Freeway, connected the Golden Gate Bridge and Bay Bridge, but it blocked the view of much of the shoreline. There were people opposed to the freeway before it was ever completed and others who liked the convenience it provided. The 1989 earthquake damaged the freeway…