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Dragon Infestation
Via Jenn: We arrived in Zurich just after 8am this morning. I'm going to quickly rant about US Airways and then it will be over. Exit row seats were really very small bulkhead seats with no TV. Flight attendants were more like disgruntled postal workers...service was throwing bagged Danish pastries at people. Brian made the mistake of asking what …
Waterfalls, Mountains, Lakes
An early start as we intended to go to Lauterbrunnen and then catch a later train to Lucerne. We caught a bus from Lauterbrunnen to Trummelbach Falls and were the only ones at the falls for a while. It was so quiet that we could hear the cow bells. Trummelbach Falls is actually 10 glacier waterfalls inside a mountain in Lauterbrunnen Valley. This …
Lucerne Sights
It had poured with rain overnight and we were concerned that the day was going to be the same, but it brightened up a bit and we headed off for a walk along the wall of the old city, where you could climb to the top of some of the towers. We made it up one and decided that was enough. We walked to the Dying Lion of Lucerne Monument which was a huge …
Snow on Pilatus Kulm
After breakfast at a cafe next door where we had yummy birchermuesli and great coffee, we headed for the lake where we caught a boat to Alpnachstad. The rain had cleared a little bit and what we could see was snow on mountains that hadn't had snow on the day before. We caught a cog railway up to Pilatus Kulm and this is the steepest cog railway in …
Zurich
... which left a lot to be desired.
December 12
Pretty uneventful day: walked to the train station, took the 10-minute train ride to the airport, flights from Zurich to Gatwick, and Gatwick to Prestwick.
Just a side note of something that I think would only happen in Switzerland: when I put my MacBook into the security bin, the security guard asked me, “That’s it? You don’t have an ipad as well?” ...