Swiss ingenuity

Today we packed up our tents fairly early so we could get on our way to the Swiss Knife Valley museum under the (you guessed it) Swiss Army Knife Shop in Brunnen. We parked our car at the lake and got out of the car to an amazing view.



But enough with the views back to the knives. We got to the museum and it was a single room full of Swiss army knife history. The real brand name is Victorinox, it comes from a combination of Victoria (the creator's mother) and Inox meaning non rusting. One of the walls was a mountain range with a tv suspended from the roof and when you selected a year it would inform you about what happened with the knife brand that year (did you know that a Pope and numerous President's have been given personalised Swiss army knives as a gift). Luke and Jessie went to the room with people's amazing knife stories, but what they liked best was the rotating chair. They even had the worlds smallest knife on display, it was a small as a grain of rice.


We also watched a movie on how the knife was made and each individual part has to be individually tested before it can be put together with the rest. It was really interesting and in some parts amazing. Dad, Luke and I even got an original Officers knife each, it's called a Spartan, with our names engraved on it.


Jake

P.S. As we were leaving we needed to go find a toilet and when we did find the public toilet we were amazed at the size and hi-tech nature of them.


The bowl was 2X the size of normal bowl and it was your toilet and your sink. It would be fairly hard to miss!

Location:Brunnen