Skip to content

Cowbells and Chocolate

A close-up and personal look at Switzerland

Cowbells and Chocolate
  • Home
  • About me…
  • Privacy Policy
  • Unsubscribed

Day: February 17, 2021

Berne and its Bears

February 17, 2021April 10, 2026 Lisa

Bears are unquestionably an integral part of the city and have been since the founding of Berne in 1191. After all, Berne means bear. How Berne got its name is what legends are made of. One of the less exciting… Read moreBerne and its Bears

Sight-seeing  berne, sight-seeing  Leave a comment

Search

Have you read these posts yet?

  • A Taxing Idea
    In Politics
    July 1, 2016
  • Word of the Year
    In Language
    January 6, 2021
  • Everything is Larger in the States
    In Life
    June 21, 2017
  • The Art of Synchronizing Hogan’s Heroes
    In Life
    January 24, 2017
  • What are you called? Nicknames
    In Language
    November 15, 2016

Most Popular Posts in the last 10 days

  • Geraniums in Switzerland When I came to Switzerland I fell in love with…
  • Buying Wine from Giordano Ben’s dad had a basement full of wine that he…
  • The Go Anywhere An American friend of mine called it that. She said…
  • News on TV in Switzerland and the States It’s always good to be informed of what’s going on…

What's the weather in Bern Switzerland?
Current weather
-º
Cloudiness-
-
-
Forecast
Rain chance-
-
-
Forecast
Rain chance-
Bern weather

Find Posts you missed!

Want to know when a new post has been uploaded? Sign up!

Loading

Categories

  • A Point in Time (9)
  • Alphabet (26)
  • Food (34)
  • Genealogy (8)
  • Holidays (21)
  • Language (38)
  • Life (75)
  • Music (1)
  • Nature (7)
  • Politics (5)
  • Recipe (6)
  • Sight-seeing (8)
  • Sports (5)
  • Swiss People (6)
  • Travel (10)

Tags

animals (11) berne (14) cheese (6) chocolate (8) christmas (8) cliché (4) covid (5) daily life (81) dialect (6) dogs (4) eating (25) first names (6) food (45) garden (4) genealogy (9) germany (4) history (25) holiday (13) holidays (18) idioms (7) Italy (7) kisses (4) languages (48) life (69) manners (7) money (5) mountains (4) names (8) nature (7) politics (11) post office (4) recipe (6) restaurant (5) school (6) Scotland (4) sight-seeing (10) specialities (22) sports (4) Swiss German (28) Switzerland (60) tourist (11) tradition (10) trains (6) travel (20) tv (6)

Admin

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
© 2026 All rights reserved
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Simple Life by Nilambar.
Go to top