I flew into ZHY and caught the excellent train from the airport to central Zurich. I opted to carry my backpack etc for the 2km to my hotel. It was sunny and lovely and (too) warm.
The Swiss certainly do not believe in just putting a single straight path through a forest when they have the option to put 7 interleaving curving paths at all different angles. When combined with indecipherable park map signs in German which never have a 'you are here' dot.... Well, lets just say thank goodness for Google maps, or I would still be running in circles out there!
This church is the grossmunster, which I will explore later.
We then went up the cable car to Uetliberg, where we had awesome views.
I think Heidi lives here somewhere.
A stairway on a rock face:
A cave through a glacier:
and, down a bit at Brugsee, a lake.
Lake Zurich and it's river were clean and many people play on the rates edge and indeed swim.
Monday 5 September 2022
I went for a run up into a local park this morning. It was a slow plod - maybe I am more tired from Saturday than I realized? Anyway, I barely managed to avoid getting run-over by the buses and cars on the road RHS, the trams in the road middle, and the many cyclists on the footpaths. (No earbud music for me around here!)
The park was nice.
There was a cool-as spider's web.
I bought a 3 day metro ticket, which is brillo - I could just whiz around on trams etc very easily.
I signed up for a 4 hour bus tour around Zurich. The narrator was informative.
We were guided around the old city.
We drove along the northern bank of the 44km Lake and caught the ferry across.
Tuesday 6 September
I joined a bus tour today of Lucerne and Titlis. The weather was changeable, but fine enough when it needed to be.
We drove out to Lucerne, which is an amazing place. It has buildings with roofs.
It has the Chapel Bridge, which dates from the 14th century and is the oldest surviving wooden truss bridge. It is 200 meters long for no apparent purpose except decorativeness!
There are old buildings.
We now drove to Engelberg, which is via a pretty valley and steep winding road, and is the gateway to the cable car up Mt Titlis.
The first cable car was standard, but the second one was massive and rotated as we ascended! Very disconcerting.
There are some weird and cool things up at 3000 meters. (Note that I made the rookie mistake of wearing sandals today, which was a bit dodgy when walking through 100m of sloshy melting snow. No toes were permanently harmed in the making of this documentary)
A suspension bridge over a glacier:
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