Zürich, Switzerland Travel Blogs

We are headed home
Mar 7, 2006 (2 photos)

... sitting in the row ahead of us by himself. We were able to change the seating arrangements on the short flight from Athens to Zurich.They ended up putting all 4 of us across the back row of the plane but that meant that Heather and Christina were all off ...

Zurich by day, Lugano by night...
Jun 10, 2008 (7 photos)

... brief relaxation and catch up at their apartment we are heading down to the local bar to catch the Euro games, which featured a Switzerland home game making for yet another lively crowd.  Somehow, we wind up playing kings at the bar and end the night ...

Authentic Swiss Country Girl
Nov 20, 2006 (3 photos)

... still swollen and bruised but I thankful I was wearing my jeans! We flew out of Istanbul in the late afternoon and arrived in Zurich around 7:30pm. My friend Leigh from high school was waiting for us. It sure was nice to see him again! The kids really ...

Eb's in Zürich!
Jun 2, 2007

... awesome elevator music consisting of a mixture of mooing cows and the sound of large bells. Liam summed it up brilliantly. Switzerland has a fever...and the only prescription...is more cowbell ;) I'd taken the liberty of bringing some food with me on ...

Zurich, Switzerland
Apr 20, 2008 (7 photos)

... will find my stock of written addressed postcards and pay to put them in the mail. But there's a greater chance of Switzerland entering the Iraq war. From the Swiss town of Sargans, I took a bus to the Liechtenstein capital of Vaduz. Liechtenstein is ...

Zurich - Day 126
Jun 28, 2008

... by the river so the residents can bath, and there are steps into the river at various points. Beginning to like Switzerland. My friends sister's boyfriend's birthday party this evening (sorry about the mouth full). So went to their house for some ...

Zurich - Day 129
Jul 1, 2008

Nothing interesting to tell today, posted 8kg of stuff home, mostly purchases from Vietnam and some other odds and ends which I no longer needed to haul around with me. Went out for dinner in the evening to an Asian restaurant. Getting my body re- ...

Zürich bei Nacht
Feb 8, 2008 (20 photos)

... , but it means this entry will be a little shorter than usual. This was my first visit to Zürich and what looks to be a very lovely Switzerland in general. Unfortunately it was on business, and since our Swiss hosts seemed to work the ungodly ...

Layover in Zurich
Feb 21, 2006 (3 photos)

... good care of us. They even gave us a full box of chocolates to take along with a bag full of croissants to take and enjoy on the rest of our trip. They made a long flight fun. Right now we are waiting in Zurich to board our flight to Istanbul.

Hong Kong, Amsterdam & Zurich - Day 122
Jun 24, 2008

4 countries, 3 flights, 7000 miles and 36 hours later I finally arrived in Zurich from a distant Hanoi. It's been a crazy day and a half of travel. First caught a flight from Hanoi to Hong Kong then I had a 12 hour wait over night in the airport before a ...

Zurich
Jul 21, 2006 (5 photos)

I really don't know if I made the right decision to leave Italy and come to Switzerland, for I absolutely fell for Italy (training through it just goes to show what a wasted opportunity) and I can't stand the toffee nosed atmosphere of Zurich (a lot of ...

Ancient Machines..
May 7, 2008 (8 photos)

... from Zurich to Innsbruck would be about 4 hours.   As we wanted to use up all our Swiss francs before we left Switzerland, we headed back to Sprungli and tried to spend our last 13.35sfr on truffles. We ended up with 8 truffles and 95 cents ...

If it's Tuesday, it must be Zürich!
Aug 11, 2005 (25 photos)

... to the pretty village of Appenzell would definitely be in order. Set in the verdant pastures of north-eastern Switzerland near the border with Austria, the wooden farmhouses with colourfully overflowing window boxes provoked an almost continuous chorus of ...

Liam in Zurich
Jun 11, 2007 (1 photos)

Heyas, Well, this is my first entry. Am finally in Switzerland, and it's very pretty and treelined in this part of Zurich. The flight was pretty uneventful. Couldn't sleep much, so watched several dodgy flicks and played a bit of Tetris. ...

Dawn Breaks Over Zurich
Sep 9, 2008 (1 photos)

The brown stripe on the horizon has thickened to pink. My doG, I'm laying my own eyes on Homer's rosy-fingered Dawn.

Switzerland is the gnome
Jun 25, 2004 (40 photos)

... them for hours some days. Anyway, I think this gnome is a sneaky lil' bugger that syphons money from your wallet...Switzerland is freakin' expensive! Like 2-3 times more expensive than the other places I've been in Europe. It's still possible to find some ...

Zurich - Day 123-124
Jun 25, 2008 (7 photos)

... a walk around the beautiful city of Zurich in the morning sun. The Euro 2008 football championships are on at the moment in Switzerland and Austria so the city is buzzing with market stalls, exhibitions and the FanZone where you can watch the matches on a ...

Chapter 56: In der Schweiz
Oct 1, 2004

... in a parallel universe where the language sounded vaguely familiar, but garbled through distortion filters. Weird. Everything in Switzerland is shockingly expensive. Especially the restaurants, where a main course generally runs 25 Swiss francs (US$20). I ...

Emmie went to Zurich (I do mean overseas)
Oct 28, 2004 (3 photos)

Does anyone else remember an annoying add jingle for Zurich the Insurance company? Well I do, and as I write this the jingle is running through my head again..(yes Polly went to Zurich, I don't mean overseas, Yes Polly went to Zurich - Insurance Company!) ...

Looking forward to getting to Berlin
Jul 23, 2006 (9 photos)

... On top of that, Zurich does not offer much at all for the tourist. You kind of need to get out of Zurich to enjoy the real Switzerland, which unfortunately, my budget does not afford. I can think of many more pristine and beautiful locations around the ...

Coming out of a low.
Jul 24, 2006

Jule, you will be happy to know that I have your pebbles from Switzerland... will try to post when I get to a cheaper country. I've been on a real low over the last 2 days, as my travelpod entries will probably show. But I think I'm coming out of it ...

gotta do some banking
Apr 11, 2007 (18 photos)

... in that room. I guess I look suspicious. A few days later I read in Time magazine that a similar watch display in Bern, Switzerland was robbed and thieves stole over $100,000 worth of watches. I guess I can understand the armed guard at the clock ...

First Taste of Foriegn Culture
Jul 13, 2002 (5 photos)

... so far it is pretty exciting. the best thing so far was the feeling right before i got off the plane. we had landed in Zurich and i thought to myself "Hum. What should I do today?" And the answer is anything I want. Including getting lost with my cereal ...

Operation nightrider some people prefer to ...
May 28, 2000

... to continue with Fabio from Milano to Zurich. After the swapping and signing of some customs papers we were moving again. Fabio didn't like Switzerland, the people or the place. I couldn't keep my eyes off it. Most of the way from Basel to Zurich I ...

The land of watches and chocolate
Oct 16, 2007 (8 photos)

... it must cost a bundle to live there.  The city itself is pretty small but very scenic as it's situated on Lake Zurich. Been there done that ....got the T shirt.   Off to Berlin on another overnight train tonight.....looking forward to a ...

Good bye to Alps and off to Albania
Jul 1, 2005

... into freezing water....one daring the other until the all ended up in the water....great!!! Today we trained back to Zurich for overnight and plane Tirana, Albania tomorrow. The following is our accumulated "being intentional" update for our Alps leg: ...

the end of the beginning
Mar 2, 2006 (10 photos)

I am in Zürich and it's snowing like crazy. I love it! I am in winter again... Ahh, the bitter sweetness of a cappucino! fresh baked bread! a hot shower! just as there's nothing like embarking on a journey, there's nothing like coming home :) of ...

Kloten (Airport)
Dec 5, 2007

Departure in Zürich

Goodbye Switzerland
Jul 21, 2008 (8 photos)

... from the huge selection they have here. I have visited the Fhiehfelden which is an enormous waterfall on the border of Switzerland and Germany. They have had an extraordinary amount of rain plus the melting snow, so the water was rushing ...

Zurich Quick stop
Dec 19, 2006

Two hour stop in Zurich. We passed the time in the VIP lounge of course as we could not possibly sit with the common people who are in the "cattle" section of the plane as Noah and Jesse now call it