We decided to make Thursday a rest day (especially as it rained all afternoon!), although some essential housekeeping tasks (e.g. laundry) were fitted in.

Friday we left Lauterbrunnen and headed over some rather exciting mountain roads to Lucerne – stopping at the Camping International Lido campsite situated on the lake just to the east of the city centre.

The campsite was next door to the Swiss Transport museum, which I had been to 30 years previously but could not resist another visit.

It’s one of the best museums I have been to with a huge collection of transport related exhibits, all very well displayed. There were vintage trains and wagons, a steam powered funicular and it’s ultra modern replacement:

The automobile section included an Aston Martin electric racing car and a big collection of Red Bull F1 cars:

The Aviation and Space section was packed with full size aircraft and helecopters but I liked this full sized model of the yet to be launched Exomars Rover (mainly because the real thing was built in Stevenage!):

I also got lost in a mirror maze – I asked these four blokes for help but they were no use! My favourite exhibit was this ‘Tourism Flipper’. The description says: “The path of the ball in this giant pinball machine illustrates what holidaymakers encounter when they visit Switzerland”: