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Interlaken is quite a small town, and we quickly discovered that we had managed to explore most of it yesterday afternoon, and so figured we would catch a bus to Lake Brienzersee, and enjoy the long walk back. Due to being the low season, when we got off the bus to explore the suburb along the lake, it felt more like a ghost town than anything else. We wandered around to see some of the parks that ran along the perimeter of the lake and got some photos before eventually beginning the walk back into the centre of interlaken. The walk back was amazing, and we wandered from the Brienzersee to the river Aare that runs through the town. Eventually, we arrived in the parts of town that we didn't explore yesterday that included a Japanese garden, a couple of churches, and a very old looking law school. As such, we deviated from the river and explored this part of town. Although iced over with the Koi fish frozen in place, the Japanese garden was still very nice to see and made for a nice photo with the church in the background. After this, we began to explore the churches. Both were quite modern relative to the outside and had beautiful stained glass mosaic windows that lit up the church in an amazing display of colours. We then continued our walk through the park and the main centre of Interlaken before arriving back home after a decent stint of walking. We chose to rest for the rest of the day and recover for our travel day tomorrow.Read more