Day 5 Biel – Biel

April 8, 2005. Today was a lazy day for Nancy and me. It was cloudy and misty in the valley below the Jura Mountains, so we decided not to drive to Lake Geneva. We had a leisurely Swiss breakfast again and then did our first visit to the City of Biel. A small town that was famous for its watch building industry until they moved offshore about twenty years ago.

In the afternoon we napped and had a long conversation with Zeev and Rosalind Gluek, our hosts. For dinner we went to a small intimate Italian restaurant in Biel. The helpings of pasta were enormous and we gorged ourselves. For a night cap we enjoyed a 1985 Premier Crus Burgundy from Zeev’s cellar. And then it was early to bed.

Stay tuned for Day 6 in my “Around the World in 30 Days” saga.

Alan Salmon
eClub One