Bern and St. Gallen: The End

[selenak]

Last chapter of the Travelling Tale: after a sleepless night due to the unfortunate location of the room, we left Geneva behind and went to Bern next. Bern being the capital of Switzerland (bet you thought it was Zurich) and a lovely city with a great word heritage Renaissance center. More then six kilometres of colonnades, fountains with painted

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[shezan]

Yayyyyy, piccies!

(And there's a whole chunk of Smiley's People that takes place in Bern, and very atmospheric it is too.)

[selenak]

You think of Le Carré, I think of Dürrenmatt.*g* The first bunch of pictures are up now. Enjoy.

[j_bluestocking]

I've always loved the little notes scribes left behind, but I pictured a monk sitting by himself somewhere, occasionally dashing off his thoughts as he worked. "I'm going now, if nobody minds" sounds as if the notes were meant as a form of communication -- perhaps to get around a vow of silence?

Thank you for the trip report -- looking forward to the pictures!

[selenak]

It definitely sounds like communication within the scriptorium - but that doesn't mean the others couldn't have been meant for the scribe's eyes only.