Basel & Bern by Train – Part 2, Bern

After visiting Basel we caught the train back to Bern, the capital of Switzerland.

As an Australian it is often hard to understand how small some countries in Europe are. Switzerland is about a 6th the size of the state of Victoria. Despite this, Switzerland is broken up into cantons, which are somewhere between a local council and a state.

The bear is a symbol of Bern, the capital of Switzerland.

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