Oberland

From Bern we sent our carriage to Zurich, and struck off what is called the Oberland

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Zurich, and struck off what is called the Oberland (upper-land.)

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Then we boarded a train to our village in the Bernese Oberland, sitting on hard wooden seats and taking turns to visit the excitements of the lavatory, where you could stand over a vertical pipe and peer and pee straight down to the tracks.

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The mountains of the Bernese Oberland are forever tugging at my view.

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Looking across a sea of clouds, I'm seized by a sober intoxication from the view of the marching mountains of the Bernese Oberland: the Eiger to the left, then the Mönch in the middle, and the Jungfrau on the right.

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland

The mountains of the Bernese Oberland are forever tugging at my view.

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3

Looking across a sea of clouds, I'm seized by a sober intoxication from the view of the marching mountains of the Bernese Oberland: the Eiger to the left, then the Mönch in the middle, and the Jungfrau on the right.

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland

The mountains of the Bernese Oberland are forever tugging at my view.

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3

Looking across a sea of clouds, I'm seized by a sober intoxication from the view of the marching mountains of the Bernese Oberland: the Eiger to the left, then the Mönch in the middle, and the Jungfrau on the right.

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland