Bern Baby, Bern! – Day 2 Old Town Bern is very compact, well-planned, and perfect to explore on a self-guided walking tour. We indulged in a lazy morning of e-mail, sleeping in, and a sumptuous breakfast at the buffet in our hotel’s Brasserie Josephine . We caught a #21 bus across the street from our hotel down to the train station around 10:00 a.m. With our city map and excellent Bern Guide , we walked to a funicular (free to ride with our transit cards) to Aarstrasse by the riverside, and crossed the Dalmazibrücke (bridge) to the other bank of the turquoise River Aare. A friendly lady we passed on the sidewalk guided us up a pretty residential street called Weststrasse to the stunning château that houses the Bern Historical Museum / Einstein Museum. Notice the bears on the gate? Suddenly two hours had passed, as we had toured the galleries of Neolithic, Celtic, and Roman artifacts; the Egyptian gallery; a Persi...