We also got to shave these posts and make them pointed | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0162.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0164.jpg) | | | I like these chairs made out of curved stumps |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0166.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0167.jpg) | Actually the nail pounding was their second favorite - their favorite was finding a puddle full of tiny frogs | | So many things were made out of wood only, no metal |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0169.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0170.jpg) | An old root cellar | | And a "working" outhouse. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0171.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0172.jpg) | Before they had closets, this had to do. They had few enough clothes that it worked | | The little bunnies loved dandelion |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0176.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0186.jpg) | 17 hours walk from Bern | | Riding an old fashioned carousel, about a hundred years old |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0182.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0192.jpg) | | | The stream from the mill |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0197.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0475.jpg) | Taking a hike from Beatenberg | | Thank goodness there were wild strawberries! They kept Peter going - he's not a big fan of hiking. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0198.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0200.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0193.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0194.jpg) | Making charcaol | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0201.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0206.jpg) | | | Lunchtime |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0209.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0211.jpg) | I made a little cup for Peter to hold his strawberries | | This whole trail was meant to be very kid friendly, thus the little playgrounds scattered about. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0214.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0216.jpg) | | | Kenny wanted me to take a picture of this stick before he had to leave it |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0218.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0222.jpg) | At the St. Beatus Caves. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0228.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0229.jpg) | At the Grimselpass. Kenny and I took a path called the Cristalweg down. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0230.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0231.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0236.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0491.jpg) | | | Meanwhile, Eric and Peter drove to the top of the pass |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0239.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0240.jpg) | The trail followed an old mule trail, and was quite well laid out in places | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0243.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0246.jpg) | | | Mountains in Switzerland aren't nearly as "wild" as they are in other places. Here's a canal built into the mountains |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0248.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0249.jpg) | The rocks have been chipped away to make a nice path here - I assume this is part of the old mule trail | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0274.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0277.jpg) | There was a picnic site here where Kenny found lots of crystals | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0285.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0289.jpg) | | | A rainbow right next to our cabin |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0290.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0291.jpg) | This was the kids room | | Waterfront in the town of Brienz |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0292.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0296.jpg) | There was a water play area the kids really enjoyed | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0301.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0302.jpg) | | | A little island at our campground |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0306.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0318.jpg) | More in Ballenberg. We actually went there two days, because it's just a lot to see in one day | | Cheese making |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0329.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0330.jpg) | | | Another toilet, actually in use, with newspaper toilet paper. Not many people used it, but some definitely did. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0337.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0335.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0341.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0343.jpg) | Interesting combination of chest of drawers/steps in one of the houses | | At a restored barber shop, this is the stool for cutting children's hair. Even back then, they were giving them little steering wheels to hold! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0346.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0528.jpg) | An old schoolhouse | | A mill-powered saw |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0360.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0359.jpg) | In an old rope factory | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0368.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0421.jpg) | About to take the cable-car up from Stechelberg | | On the Schlithorn |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0418.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0422.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_0459.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0434.jpg) | Our car - a Toyoto Corolla Verso | | In Gimmelwald/Murren |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0376.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0379.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0381.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0382.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0387.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0438.jpg) | A picnic lunch in Murren - we had a GREAT view! | | We saw this interesting sculpture on the way out. I just had to get a picture. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0443.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0444.jpg) | More cabin pictures | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0446.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0445.jpg) | | | I liked the fact that the sliding glass door could be opened very wide - about 8 feet or so. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0449.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0451.jpg) | About to head to Festung F�rigen, an old fort, relic of the impressive Swiss civil defence system which appears to gradually be phasing out (this was shut down in 1986) | | Kenny got to wear an old Swiss army coat. Good thing, too, because it was cold in there! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0453.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0466.jpg) | Peter, figuring out where the machine guns should be aimed | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0469.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0470.jpg) | We must have told Kenny and Peter to look serious in this picture | | The infirmiry |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0474.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0477.jpg) | I think the tool with the big handle is for cutting bones in amputations | | The cafeteria |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0487.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0498.jpg) | The bunk beds | | The guns were well camouflaged |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0499.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-02-2012-brientz/gallery_img_c0514.jpg) | | | We bought some genuine Swiss Army chocolate and biscuits at the old fort |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-08-2012/gallery_img_0370.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-13-2012/gallery_img_0555.jpg) | At the wading pool in Parc La Grange | | A wooden, hand operated Ferris Wheel at Parc La Grange. The kids loved it and so did I! Kenny was only interested in turning it, not riding |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-13-2012/gallery_img_0562.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/07-13-2012/gallery_img_0558.jpg) | | | This is what the ride looks like |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/07-13-2012/gallery_img_0565.jpg) | | | Kenny turning the wheel | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |