We spent a full day in Zürich and manage to not visit the car at all, Seemed a bit odd after doing at least 200 miles for echo of the 5 previous days but it made a nice change. Walked to the local station and after checking the timetable found two trains into the city. On at 26 minutes past and on at 38 minutes past. At precisely 24 minutes past a train arrived and precisely 2 minutes later it left. I checked the on-board timetable for every station we stopped at and that train was exactly on time everywhere. Bet it never sufferers from leaves on the line or the wrong kind of snow!! Swiss precision in train form!
Zürich was a nice city to amble around but seemed to specialise in two things, churches and hills. I think perhaps the churches were there so that you had something impressive to look at once you had got to the top of the hill but I know it meant my legs were tired by half way through the day. Found. A park for lunch and watched some elderly Swiss gentlemen have a very long and intense game of boules. Tried to explain the rules to my daughter but as I didn't know them myself it was slightly more complicated than anticipated.
A chance conversation earlier in the week had reminded ourselves that my wife had an ex workmate now living in Zürich so we met her and her family as well. Its strange to think how many people you can know in so many far flung places but its always nice to catch up when you can.
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