A short flight and we were in Switzerland. The airport and train station was an interesting experience. We eventually found a ticket machine that half spoke English and got our tickets. Crossed our fingers and jumped on a train. We got it right, by some miracle. A taxi to the hotel, which turned out to be obscenely expensive then we set out to explore Zurich.
We caught the trams up the city and explored. We looked at some shops, the old town, St. Peters with the largest clock face in Europe. Know what? It is pretty big.
Zurich is beautiful, love it, a great vibe is going on here and the people are all very friendly and try to help. The English speaking is amazing here. It always shocks me how easy travel is for English speakers. We are so lucky, almost anywhere people will speak English (in the main cities anyway) even when it is not the national language. Incredible.
On the river that runs through the city we saw some sort of women’s swim club. It is a floating pontoon with two pools surrounded by decks for longing on, change rooms, showers and massage rooms and of course a bar. It was full of women swimming and relaxing. I so wanted to swim, it was so stinking hot.
Apparently we have managed to catch a heat wave, it is never this hot here, but is for our arrival. Lame. Actually it wasn’t so bad once we got changed at the hotel. Coming home from the airport was shocking being dressed for Ireland.
We went for a fondue dinner, something Switzerland is famous for. It was delicious, so very very yummy. Oh and a cracking good glass of local red for me. (French bubbles for Raina) And the waiters were fantastic colorful Swiss folk. Really nice and funny.
Totally loving Switzerland.
We caught trams every where and particularly loved the tram to Klusplatz – or Kur-splats as we pronounced it. It was very funny at the time. And without wishing ill on anyone – we really did want to see someone go kursplatz!
