Park Inn Zurich Airport

... with theme hotels. For example, there is a rock and roll themed hotel and an otter themed hotel. We stayed in a Park Inn near the airport which we suspect is surreptitiously disguised as a McDonald's themed hotel. The evidence: (1) First off, it was ...

... our hotel room in Zurich, having negotiated the Swiss rail system to exit the Colmar-Zurich train, purchase tickets for Zurich-Kloten (by the airport here), get rid of some character that wanted to exchange rail-pass vouchers for francs, find platform 21 ...

... on our own. We took the half-price ticket and got ourselves booked for Jungfra, first day and Luzern, Bern the next. Zurich-Olten-Bern-Interlaken-Grindelwald O Lauterbrunnen-Kliene and from there to Jungfra was the route. And it was amazing. Every train ...

... navigated by Emma, who made sure we didn't wander off the beaten track & get lost (her and Linda were travelling to the airport around 5pm as they had to fly home today, so couldn't afford any big delays or scenic routes). We strolled along the banks ...

... of bed after only 2ish hours sleep (don't ask, we don't know where the night before that went either!) & headed to the airport. Our flight was at 6.30am, so after checking in & heading through security we had just enough time to have a coffee ...

... 45pm to drive the short distance to the airport and sat and waited watching all the people coming and going in this busy airport. The Domestic flights were heading to many South Australian towns and also towns in other states which are now more familiar ...

... a train from Geneva station. It was the longest train journey lasting 2 hrs 45 minutes through the lovely terrain. We arrived at Zurich Airport train station at 8.30 PM. We collected some grocery from a huge Migros store and headed for Hotel Ibis near the ...

... hailed us a cab to the airport. Our cab driver Salim shared cricket stories with us and took us on the scenic route to JFK airport via the backstreets of Queens. We checked in at Swiss Air both and before we knew it we were on our wayto Zurich saying ...

... that were staying at the next beach) and I headed back to Tana for my last night. I said goodbye to Vincenzo and Dani at the airport. I had arranged for our guide to meet me at the airport and I paid for his travel just so I wouldn't have to deal with ...

... and I am sure she was quite surprised when I knocked on her door again that evening. "Not him again!" So after blessing Jackie with my presence for one more night, I headed out to the Stuttgart airport to catch the third intra-European flight of my ...

And then here were five! Kathy is here from Singapore, Kath from London , and we go to the airport to meet Jane who is flying in from Sydney.     Kenji needs to get back to Tahoe because it's Presidents' Week ( holiday) and he is fully ...

... meaning I didn't have to negotiate the scam merchants waiting outside the airport door.  It took us hours to get out the airport car park and was getting on for 3am when we pulled up down the dirt track that led to the hostel.  We then wandered ...