A tip to travelers, the cruise from Fluelen to Lucerne is too long, you'll get tired before it ends. The benches are hard as rock. Comfortable enough for the first hour or so after which your backside gets progressively more sore.
I really enjoyed the cruise from Fluelen to Brunner, I recommend you leave the steamer there and take a train to Lucerne. Coincidentally, the lake steamer docks within a 100 yards of the Lucerne train station so you'll end up in the same place either way.
A random thought, unconnected to the above: Someone must have made the Swiss an amazing deal on 10,000 construction cranes. These are not the portable cranes mounted on heavy trucks, but rather installed on a concrete base at the site, to remain there until the project is done. They have a fixed tower supporting a long arm parallel with the ground and in the U.S. we use them mostly on taller buildings. In Switzerland many lumber yards have one just to move supplies around the yard and load it on trucks. I even saw one being used in Brunner to backup a guy topping a tall tree. A city of any size here has maybe 6-10 of them, even small bergs may have one or more.
A random thought, unconnected to the above: Someone must have made the Swiss an amazing deal on 10,000 construction cranes. These are not the portable cranes mounted on heavy trucks, but rather installed on a concrete base at the site, to remain there until the project is done. They have a fixed tower supporting a long arm parallel with the ground and in the U.S. we use them mostly on taller buildings. In Switzerland many lumber yards have one just to move supplies around the yard and load it on trucks. I even saw one being used in Brunner to backup a guy topping a tall tree. A city of any size here has maybe 6-10 of them, even small bergs may have one or more.
