We arrived in Zurich late on Saturday and caught the shuttle to our cosy hotel…small but clean and cosy. Actually, I am pretty happy with most of the places we have chosen and would recommend Expedia.com to anyone travelling… the reviews are really good and helpful. We have been finding food VERY expensive in Europe - we were warned but it is still a shock and makes australian prices and quality seem so good - like a pizza costs abdout 25 dollars and is so small and with not much on top…it doesn’t up fill anyone. I appreciate more now how tough it was for kirstin and Em when they were living in the UK.
sunday, we caught a tram into town - we have really enjoyed using the public transport in the various countries - and wandered around. Everything was closed, being Sunday, so we just walked around and saw what we could. We then decided to get a ferry around Lake Zurich adn as there were no inside eats, we sat outside. I am now feeling bad about that as Dad has caught a cold and sore throat. One fun bit of the day, was that we picked up St Nicklaus adn dropped him adn his black moors at another stop, where hundreds of children were waiting to greet him. We didn’t really like Zurich all that much but maybe if stuff was open, it would have been better.
On the second day, we caught a train down to Luzern..now that is a different story. I Loved it… the lake, the ring of snow capped mountains, the history, the beautiful painted buildings, the cobblestone squares, the white swans… aaahhh. A stunning combination. We decided to spluge on dinner and went for fondue - we had a cheese one adn a meat one. both were good and we were totally stuffed after. We washed it down with a lovely swiss wine - didn’t know they had such good stuff. Everywhere we went, we were given small blocks of chocolate - couldn’t eat them all…so guess what Jess…
