This daily vlog covers a full solo day trip in Bern, Switzerland. I explore the Bärenpark, ride a city bike through the historic centre, and try some amazing Swiss street food. This is a great video for those planning a Switzerland Interrail trip or looking for things to do in Bern. Next up:
[00:00] Intro & Plans for the Day (Bear Park & Toboggan)
[01:02] Breakfast of Champions: Ham on Toast
[02:22] Solo Bike Ride & The Massive Bern Cathedral
[02:54] Arriving at the Bear Park (Bärenpark) & City View
[04:18] The Mystery of the Blue Swiss River Water
[05:18] First Sighting of the Bears (They are HUGE!)
[07:07] Close-up Look & The Bear on the Power Line
[09:22] Biking to the Historic City Centre (Zytglogge Clock Tower)
[11:25] Finding the Albert Einstein Statue
[13:00] Lunch Time: Wild Boar Mint Empanada & wiss Beer Review
[16:00] Epic Bike Riding Experience & Traffic Confusion
[18:03] Questioning the Swiss Bike Helmet Law
[19:54] Trying Onigiri for the First Time (The Seaweed Disaster)
[21:46] Tomorrow’s Plan: The Land Roller Coaster
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That is really nice bike riding experience. What a fun two guys. Hello everyone. My name is Will or Willie G and as you can tell I’ve probably just I’ve just woken up but um welcome to day 26 of Will versus Europe. Um I don’t know what I’m going to do today. I think I’m going to go to a place called the Bear Park. It’s in Burns somewhere. I don’t know exactly where it is, but um yeah, it’s like a bear area. It’s like a zoo, but there’s loads of bears. So, I might go check that out. There’s also like the tallest tobogen or like uh land roller coaster. I’m sure I’ll put a picture up. I’m sure you guys will know. I mean, that’s here as well. So, I might either do that tomorrow or just go to the bear park today. I’ll decide. But yeah, that’s um I’m definitely going to the bear park there cuz that looks quite cool. I’m going to make some breakfast in a minute and then get ready and then um go. So yeah, I’ll see you guys when I’m making breakfast. Here’s my breakfast today. We have like four slices of ham on toast. The best breakfast you can have. I don’t think anything can beat ham on toast. So I’m going to absolutely demolish this. While I’m doing that, I’ll probably edit the video for yesterday and then we’re going up to the bear park. So, I’ll see you guys um yeah, once I’ve done all that. After procrastinating and sitting around and um you know, watching YouTube, I finally decided it’s time to go out and it’s like half one, but we are on the way to the bear park. It’s about a 30 minute walk, so it’s not too bad. And it’s like a I don’t know if it’s like a bear rehabilitation or something. It’s a bear something. There’s loads of bears there, so that’d be quite cool. And it’s only um 11 Franks to get in and it’s open every single day of the year 24 hours which is quite cool. I don’t know if the 24 hours thing is true because I don’t know if they’d let people on there 24 hours and also if it’s dark be kind of pointless. But um yeah, we’re heading over there now. I’ll uh probably pick up a meal or a coffee or something after I finish cuz I’m not too hungry at the moment. Or I could get one of these bikes. I might get a bike. I might cycle there. All the cycle paths are very um very obvious. So, I’ll have a look see if there’s another see if there’s another station near it. My biking adventure has led me to this huge cathedral I saw yesterday. It’s absolutely massive. It’s very pretty though. You can go inside of it. I also have no idea if I’m allowed to ride a bike here. I saw a lot of bikes around, so I reckon I’m all right. But look how nice it looks up here. Also, I think I’m on like a slant. I can’t put the bike up. Look at that. That is very grand. That’s cool. Anyway, still on the way to the bear thing, so I’ll see you in a second. Well, I think I’ve arrived. I’m not too sure. I mean, this looks like the enclosure a bear would have. I don’t see any bears in it. I mean, they they uh I thought they’d be like eating everything at the moment before they hibernate. Let’s check this one. I don’t actually know if I have to pay. Okay, they’re in something. I don’t think those are bears. Those are people. Let’s find out a way to actually get into it. It might be free. It’d be cool if it is free. Got this very nice view here. And more evidence that um Switzerland’s for tall people. I mean, look at this. It’s only my chest has just made it, but everyone’s walking over this way. And it looks like there’s an opening over there. So, I’m going to go over there. I mean, after they’ve taken this photo, see where I can buy. Yeah, the um the bike ride here, it’s all like stony, so I was just going the whole way. So, I’m a bit shaken up. I’ve been vibrated. Let’s see if I can find a way into the bear park. There’s a picture of a monkey here. But look at this view of the city. This is beautiful. It’s a very pretty city. Just imagine this with all the snow everywhere. That would be even more amazing. We’re going down into this big lake. I don’t You can tell here in um Switzerland based on like the water. It’s like you don’t see water this clear in a river anywhere. Well, not clear. Like actually, no, it is really clear. Just like how blue it is as well. Write down in the comments if you guys know why um that does that is uh I don’t know why it’s like every bit of water here in Switzerland is just like light blue. Just looks so nice. I think I should have got this big lift thing that’s here cuz this is a long walk. I’ll show you once we’re down and see if I can find how to get into Bear Park. I found an enclosure. I don’t know. It looks like one, but the only thing I’ve seen is fish. There’s been there’s big fish there just sat there, but I’m going to keep going. There’s loads of um pictures and signs for bears, but none of them have got like an actual entry. Like I showed you a second ago, you saw these people in the thing. I looked on the website and it’s like 11 Franks. I want to know how you actually get in there. Let’s look. This river is absolutely lovely. Like look at these houses next to it as well. Be amazing to live here. I found the I don’t think I have to pay to be here. So there he is. If you guys can get a good view of that. Maybe if he stands up. I’ll wait a minute. Well, he just led down. So Oh my god, there’s another one right there. I didn’t even see that. There. There’s another one right there. No, don’t focus on the bars. Focus on the It just kind of looks like a brown pile because it’s not focusing. That is That is scary though. They’re huge. There. You can see him better now. Is he getting up? What’s he doing? They are huge. Yeah. I found the bear. I don’t know where else this takes me. I kind of want to see more bears and not just walk around a park. But no idea where I ended up. Just walked up some stairs and now I’m in this like car park. But there’s got to be more than that cuz those people went were in the actual bottom bit. So I’m going to try and find that because cuz I want to see some close-ups of some bears. I’m sure they got more than two inside. That is quite cool. Look at this power line. There’s a bear balancing on it. It’s quite funny. I wonder how they got up there. I didn’t know bears were that small or could do that. That’s quite impressive. I’m going to go find out how to get into the actual enclosure bit cuz that was very quick. Pretty sure I found it. Or I’m just walking down some steps. Oh no, this is it. It’s a scary looking bear right there. Oh, look. Now I’m uh This is so It’s so powerful. It’s like I am the I am the bear. Then we have this real bear and it’s cubs. I don’t really know what you do in here. I saw some people come out of a door. I wonder how you get in. Maybe it’s this door over here. I want to know how you get in. Okay, that just looks like a gift shop. That’s really creepy. I wonder if that’s like a stuffed bear. That’s really weird. I’d get close to the glass. You guys can see a bear. Oh, that is quite weird. Oh, okay. That’s just like a lunch table or something. Yeah, I don’t really know. I guess I know I know why this is open 24 hours. It’s cuz it’s not like an actual I was thinking it was some kind of like zoo, but it’s not. Let’s go find something else to do. Find I found a bear. He sat in the corner. I don’t know if you can see. I really don’t want to drop my camera. I don’t know if you saw that, but he just ran to the corner. Oh, he’s gone. He’s gone into the enclosure. That makes a lot more sense. That’s why everyone’s moving over here. Oh, he’s sat in the tunnel. Don’t really know where it went. Everyone’s now frantically looking for it. Let’s uh get a better better angle of those ones I was seeing earlier cuz I reckon they’re just over here. Um Oh, they going to be really hard to see. Look got like a bush all over them. Yeah, cuz they’re about Oh, it’s just looking at the sky. They’re about there. Yeah, I can’t see that. Well, everyone’s looking again. I wonder wonder if the bear came back. No, it didn’t. Okay, I’m going to go find something else to do. Here’s I now understand what bear park is. I think I’m going to ride the bike back to that like church area that I was at. So, like there was a lot of nice places there. So, I’ll head there and then um yeah, find find somewhere to eat cuz I’m actually getting kind of hungry. Yeah, I’ll see you guys in a bit. ridden into what looks like a town center cuz there a huge clock over there and these buildings are very very nice to look at. I definitely took a wrong turn when I was coming back. So, um yeah, I don’t actually know where I am. I was trying to end up in the same place I was at earlier, but I’ve now ended up in a completely different place. So, I’m going to go try and find a place that doesn’t do ice cream cuz that’s all they seem to be doing. And I’m going to go get some lunch cuz it’s like 3 or 4:00 and I am hungry. That’s cool. There’s little like place down in that basement. It’s a like a antique shop. So, I’m not going to go in there cuz I feel like I would 100% accidentally break something. But yeah, let’s just let’s just keep going. Got this huge clock or clock up here which looks pretty cool. And there’s loads of different kinds of shops like music shops, everything like that. But there’s no food places, which is really weird. Also feels like I wasn’t allowed to ride my bike up here. I was getting a lot of looks, but not any I don’t really care. Look at this. We got a cool bear wearing armor. There’s a Lego shop somewhere. There’s a Lego sticker there. Look. But this is like a proper big shopping district. It’s very nice. just ended it to go find somewhere. But look, this guy’s playing the I don’t know what that is. The tuba. I want to go over there. I’m going to walk quickly so I can made it to the clock. We’ve made it to these these two guys. What a what a fun two guys. [Music] I hope they’re not playing something copyrighted cuz this is great. [Music] It just sounds like I’m in like a cartoon. It’s very odd. I walked past a steakhouse. I think that’s too expensive what I want. Just kind of want like a sandwich or something. Let’s keep going. Oh, I found Einstein. It’s pretty cool. It’s looking better than ever. Look how healthy his skin looks and his dead eyes. I think he’s a bit bigger than that, though. Not that I would know. I’m still trying to find a place to eat. That is a lot of alcohol in there and very expensive. 100%. It’s just I’m seeing all these shops and it just doesn’t all of them just so out of my price range. Well, for what I want to spend and then there’s all just like bubble tea, ice cream. I found a steakhouse, but that was like the cheapest thing was 40 quid and that’s crazy. So, decided to not go there. And this I could just use Google Maps, but that’s boring. I want to just find somewhere on my own. I’ll let you know if I find somewhere. just turned this random corner and I see a very cute dog. He’s very big. But I also have found this like huge well not huge just Oh, look. There’s another church here as well. There’s like there’s so much stuff around every corner. It’s very weird. I was still just trying to find a place to eat. every place I find. I mean, I know it’s all going to be really expensive anyway, but you think it would be a little toned down. I just want to eat something, man. I’m hungry. But look at this. This is cool. Cool little like down street. Yeah. Let’s Let’s keep going. I think I found a place. And I’ve got my third Swiss beer. They’re really refreshing here. It’s really weird. Oh, that’s really loud. Where is that coming from? I think it’s coming from that. What? Perfect time to record. Oh, that means they’re all going to start now, probably. Great. But, um, I’ve ordered an empanada with wild boar mint. So, I’ll see when it comes out to show you how nice it is. We managed to get it. And this is a tapass place. I just realized, as you can tell, this is the empanada. It smells really nice, to be fair. It looks really nice. And we have like a tomato chutney and we got some bread. But yeah, I’m I’m not surprised that it’s that small. But I also only just realized it was Come on. There you go. Only did just realize it was a tapas place, so that’s quite annoying. Yeah, let’s let’s try this empanada. I’ve never actually had one before, but I know they’re really nice. So, and I can dip the um I’m glad they gave me bread cuz I would have been quite hungry still, right? That is really nice. I’m going to enjoy this. Well, I ate that and though it didn’t look too big, I’m actually quite full. So, that was quite good. Um, yeah, it was actually really nice. There was um wild boar mints. I think I mentioned it. I didn’t think I didn’t know what that would be. And it’s very um I don’t know how to describe it. It’s very it’s like a sweeter meat. It’s really nice. It’s like a like a mapley. Not really mapley. I don’t know. It was really nice. And that jam was amazing. It was a tomato jam cuz I asked the guy what it was cuz it was so nice. I’m actually going to get on the uh paper. But yeah, that was Yeah, it was really good. I think I’m going to do now maybe head home or head back to the Airbnb. I don’t know. I haven’t really done anything. I might keep walking down the town actually. and uh check out what’s there because it’s um this video is going to be quite short otherwise. Just found the shop. This looks really cool. I mean, it looks really expensive, but it’s really really cool stuff. Like this whole plaza bit is really really nice. It’s just I know I can’t afford anything. It’s really annoying. I can afford it, but it’s like then I have to carry it around for the rest of the trip. Has risk getting broken, etc. I don’t have much room in my bags anyway. So yeah, this place is absolutely lovely. I mean, look at the architecture. It’s like proper Swiss like down here, like the close close streets and everything. It’s really nice. I think I’m more on the German side of um this place. So that’s probably why. Yeah, I think I’m just going to head back. Actually, I’m going to get I’ll pop out to the shops and get something to eat uh for dinner. But yeah, I’ll see you guys when I’m back at the Airbnb. I thought I should get some footage of me riding the bike. Here we are. Look how epic this is. This epic bike riding experience. I mean, cycling through this town. So nice. But as you can hear, it gets very bumpy. You can probably hear my voice. This is considering how it is. It’s actually quite smooth here, but it gets so bad. But it’s um it’s weird cuz you get to cuz obviously I’m from the UK so I’m used to riding on the left and stuff and then here it’s all on the right and it’s very confusing. But I’m actually going to stop and put my camera away. Yeah, when you it’s everything’s on the right side. So you got to think of everything the opposite way as a like while you’re driving. It’s very weird. Yeah. I’ll see you guys back at the Airbnb again. While I’ve been riding I’ve just found my way to a like a site. This is that thing. It’s like I’ve seen everything that I showed in the um the end of last video with that like big panoramic of um you know remember when I was like looking over the mountain but this is all like looking over that bridge but this is a huge building and we had like a bigger one here big plaza here. Very very nice. It’s weird that I managed to hit everything. Yeah, I’m going to I mean we got a whole like water show going on over here. That’s quite cool. Yeah, I got to check the map anyway. So, it’s good I stumbled into this main bit cuz it’s very very nice here. There we go. I’ve locked the bike up and I am walking back now. Only like 2 minutes. Didn’t get any uh dinner cuz I’ll just get that in a bit. But um yeah, that was riding a bike or even driving would be horrible. Driving would be even worse. But riding a bike in like a town you don’t know or city you don’t know is absolutely crazy. I mean, I don’t know where I was ending up half the time. Like, on that it’s only a 10-minute ride, and I was ending up like in the wrong lanes. I was I had to stop in the middle of the road at one point to go in the right place on the pavement. And they don’t I can tell they don’t like you on the pavement cuz they have cycle paths everywhere. But, I’m back. So, I’m back in one piece. So, that’s good. And also it looks like um I have to search it up but I think there might be some kind of law that you have to wear a helmet or something cuz the I saw one other person not have a helmet on and everyone was like staring at me. So now I’m worried about that. But if they stop I’m so sure it’s just a fine which will be quite annoying but I can pay it. But yeah, I get to chill out for a bit and then go out for some dinner. So I’ll show you when I do that in a minute. Oh, I sat around for about 5 seconds and I want to go get dinner. Not because I’m hungry, but because I don’t like just having something to do for a while. You get what I mean? It’s like I know I have to go there. So, I don’t like just leaving it there, but So, I don’t even know what I’m talking about. Um Oh, there’s a little orange cat there running away from me. That’s a shame. Looks very cute. Hold on. Wait, it’s just stopped. See if I can get it to say hi. No. Be okay. He’s scared. But yeah, we’re heading to co-op. It’s um they’re a lot nicer here. The co-ops. They’re orange instead of green. And they’re like I think they’re like the Waitros of here. I because everything’s quite expensive. But I mean if what I want’s too expensive, I’ll head to Audi. But I don’t really care. I can’t really be bothered to walk the extra 3 minutes. So yeah, I’ll show you what I get or when I’m in there. As I am an absolute genius, I took the bike back because there was a bike station outside my uh flat and at the other place. But I have also because I am a genius accidentally bought two pizzas in one box. And so I’ve got two pizzas now instead of one. And I’ve got a bottle of wine, some bananas, and I’ve got another I’m going to But yeah, I’ve got a surprise to show you guys when I get back. So see you in a sec, guys. The surprises is I got a oni giri. Now I’ve seen these in a lot of shows I watch and I’ve always been curious about what they taste like. It’s like a rice ball thing. Oh, what’s going on? Okay, it’s come unwrapped. Um, what? I thought they meant to be Oh, I got to be some kind of professional here, I guess. Okay, this was 4 something Franks. 450 Franks. This better be good. How are you meant to wrap this? It’s a tutorial. I mean, I thought it was meant to come pre-wrapped. I guess it doesn’t. Okay. Well, here you go. My first bite of an oni giri. [Music] Okay. I’ve just realized I don’t think you eat this the seaweed. Yeah, that tastes gross. Well, the actual thing is good. It’s just I definitely wasn’t meant to eat the seaweed. Yeah, that’s definitely there to keep the shape of it. But you got a shrimp one and it has like prawns in it. It’s really nice. It tastes like um rice pudding, which is weird, but it works quite well. There you go. Okay, I really do need to get better at um showing you guys what I have for dinner cuz I just ate again. Um well, I ate that pizza without even showing you. But anyway, it was really good. So, um yeah, there you go. You know that. But uh yeah, thank you guys very much for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed. Um, tomorrow I think I’ll go be trying to find that tobogen thing. Not tobogen, the land roller coaster, which should be really fun. Um, but yeah, thank you guys very much for watching. Uh, I will see you guys in the next one. Don’t forget to like and subscribe, and I will see you later. Goodbye. [Music]