So I have arrived in Zurich as has my luggage so all is good. It’s raining and cool here right now not that that’s not going to stop us from wandering around a bit 🙂
(7ish hours later)
So jeremy and I have been wandering around town for the past few hours (it’s 1730 now) and thankfully the weather has cleared up and warmed up as well. We have been in three different churches (only one we were allowed to take pictures in, the Grossmunster) and been up to two hilltops and saw great panoramas of the city. At the first view I was approached by a couple from New Zealand while I had out my rented zoom lens wanting to know what lens I was using and how close I could get. We chatted for a few minutes then had them take our picture before they left, yay for making travel friends through photography. After that we had cheese fondue for lunch and while sitting there the same couple passed by again, so it was fun to see a “familiar” face.
Now we’re trying to kill some time before our train leaves tonight at 930.
(10 minutes later)
Apparently 95 percent of stores, including grocery stores, are closed on Sundays. We were really thirsty though and passed by a McDonalds that has a “McCafe”, an upscale coffeehouse attatched to a regular McDonalds. I had seen something about them on the travel channel and that they were actually pretty good for coffee and convinced jeremy that it wasn’t too horrible of a travel faux pas since they don’t have McCafes in the US. So I got a cappuchino (which is actually quite tasty) and two waters for a total of 12.70 Swiss francs. I got out my credit card to pay but the cashier said they did not take credit cards (there was a sign that they took credit cards on the door but I guess that’s for the regular restaurant), but they would take American dollars if we didn’t have francs (which we didn’t, and had tried to avoid acquiring since we would not be able to use them anywhere else on the trip), so we paid in American dollars at a Swiss McCafe for an Italian coffee drink, I love Europe 🙂
Also, the McCafe has free (for thirty minutes) internet access, yay! So I get to post this in near real time.
Next stop: overnight train to Florence, Italy.