In Like a Lion

No weather report here, today's posted pictures are from a weekend tour I took in Europe. It was early February of 1986 and took a loop through Switzerland, these pictures are all from Luzern. The first picture is the Lion Monument or the "Dying Lion of Luzern". Carved into the hillside in 1821 to commemorate the 700 Swiss mercenaries killed in Paris when French Revolutionaries stormed the Royal Palace and Louis the 16th ordered the guards to lay down their arms. A massacre followed. The second is of the original Kapellbrucke and Wasserturm over the River Reuss, built in the 14th century it was the oldest road bridge in Europe. I say the original because I have since learned that in August 1993 a small boat fire near the bridge burned most of this bridge down, a replica was quickly built to replace it, although , some of the damages can still be seen. The last picture is a typical tourist picture of a downtown building showing gargoyles and what look like maidenheads.

I hope you enjoy these pictures, all from back then are scanned from 35mm pictures that were developed in Germany and spent 10-15 years in a magnetic photo album, the kind with the sticky stuff and clear plastic cover. Often my German processed pictures discolored towards yellow and green and the albums turned the pictures brown on the edges. I have since gotten most of these into more archival albums.