A Visit to Luzerne With the Ladies: Part Deux

When we last heard from our intrepid travelers, they were walking along Luzerne's river banks toward the old city walls behind the town. Way back in the day, the city fathers build a high wall on the high hills just behind the town. The thought was that the lake would provide protection to the South and the wall would provide protection to the North. Whether it kept people away back then, I don't know. But today it only serves to draw the tourists . Tourists want to climb anything that is high enough to provide a Kodak moment.

The citizens guarding the walls in those days must have been tough old birds, because it is quite a climb to go up the hill (first) and then up the towers to the top of the wall. Theresa, Gabi, and Irma passed on the climb and instead went to a Starbucks Coffee shop to wait for us. The remaining ladies and I trudged on up.

The view from up there is beautiful. (This is good, because I thought that it was the last thing I would ever see before the heart attack took me away.) Getting there was a bit tough. An OSHA inspector would fine the Swiss government out of existence for the stairways alone. The steps up the wall towers were narrow and steep and uneven. But once on top of the wall, all was forgotten.The picture above shows the ladies on top of the wall. You can barely make out one of the towers in the background behind the trees. The intro picture and the following one are views of the lake from the top. The scenery was very nice. Even nicer was the cool breeze that came across the top of the wall.