We arrived in Lucerne in the morning, found the apartment we rented near the train station pretty easy, but there was no key in the lock box they told me to look at. I had to call them (thank goodness there is cellphone these days), and the girl told me to look at a different lock box where I found the key!

1. Our apartment. I was surprised how hot Lucerne was in late August (high 80s), and the apartment had no a/c, we relied on the fan and opening window and door to stay cool.

2. The little kitchen really helped.

3. Our balcony.

4. Streets near our apartment.

5. Streets near our apartment.

6. Streets near our apartment.

7. Streets near our apartment.

8. Beautiful Chapel Bridge, a 204 m (669 ft.) long wooden covered bridge originally built in 1333, the oldest covered bridge in Europe.

9. Lake Lucerne.

10. The Lion Monument commemorates the hundreds of Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution.

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12. Lake Lucerne from old town walls.

13. Lucerne from an overlook next to Hotel Château Gütsch.

14. Lucerne.

15. Chapel Bridge again.

(To be continued)