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Zurich
... back to the other side of the Limmat River, where there is a floating circus at the mouth of the river. We went to the less-impressive Fraumünster Church, right across the pretty cobblestone bridge from Grossmünster. It was not open to the public to see inside, but there were some pretty but strange frescos on the outside depicting nuns and priests, as well as stags.
From Fraumünster, we went to Züghus Platz, which used ...
Lucerne
... and arches, covered in Christmas boughs and snow.
December 9: Around Lucerne
In the daylight we saw that Lucerne is actually tucked into the mountains. Renee has a beautiful view of both Rigi and Pilatus, the two larger mountains around Lucerne. The view from her windows actually looks like a ski resort. After some yogurt and muesli for breakfast, we walked over the to the train station where we got a coffee and walked around the ...
My big adventure around Switzerland
... junior suite lake view. I walk into to my room and its stunning. All white and the bed is perfectly made. My view is off the Geneva Lake. Geneva lake is one of the largest lakes in Europe, measuring at 73km. I unpack and I'm heading to the Geneva arts cafe. I arrived at the cafe at 12.42pm in time for lunch . I sit down and look around it's very nice, has great paintings, good jazzy music and at the back of the room are comfy couches. I order a coffee to go as ...
Switzerland -- land of cuckoo clocks!!
... is Vaduz. They use Swiss Francs for money. The population of the entire country is only 30,000.
On to Lucerne and arrived there about 2:00. The town of Lucerne is mostly Catholic, but the town of Geneva is mostly Protestant. Products of Switzerland are pharmaceuticals, chocolate (with Lindt developing the melt-in-your mouth chocolate), watches/clocks and army knives.
We rode a train ...
What a game!
... a couple of yellow cards, a dramatic incident & a red card, resulting in a 3-2 win for the Mighty Lionesses & qualification to the Women's World Cup next year. Could we have had any more excitement?! Amazing!
The 5 of us headed back to the station, full of excitement and good cheer. We paused at the German's car to say goodbye to her & wish her safe journeys (she was driving back to Germany). Then we continued our stroll to the station & headed back to our ...