While Not Working

There was one day left in Lucerne and so much to see! Off we went to the old town which was bursting with bridges and churches and painted buildings. Let me show you a little of what there was to see in old town. The Franziskanerkirche, with allegedly the most elaborately ornamented pulpit in Switzerland. To be honest, I don't know how to discern degrees of elaborateness and ornamentation in Swiss pulpits.  They all look very elaborate to me. The ceiling theme was all cupids and roses and little fluffy clouds. Fluffy and light the ceiling may have been, but some of the side crypts were just plain macabre. I'm kind of glad I can't read German.  I don't want to know. Close by the Franziskanerkirche was the Nadelwehr (Needle dam), installed in 1859/60 and still used today to control the water level of lake Lucerne by manual removal/insertion of the timber 'needles'.  My resident engineer was fascinated. The Spreuerbrücke covered bridge near the Nadelwehr boasted 6...