The trees are in full leaf and some are in bloom.

The grass is high where we walked, but up towards the tops of the mountains, the snow still lies.

One of the strange sights is to see large, splendid hotels perched in some cranny away up near the summit of the peaks.

Cog railways now take the tourists up some of the mountains.
The region around Lake Lucerne is historic, I am told.

Here began the Swiss struggle for liberty which we read about.