Late dinner at Tibits, dad's favourite veggie bistro. Cihan arrived shortly after at 12am.

In the James Joyce foundation, guess what it is?

Day 1 - Zurich to Meiringen

August 16 in Switzerland ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

Dad and I arrived on Friday at 7ish and checked into our chintzy Great Gatsby themed room. Then we headed into town for dinner and collected Cihan from the station at 12am (delays on the DB, hopefully the Swiss trains will live up to their reputation of being punctual!)

In the morning, after a quick supermarket breakfast we headed into town to check out a mountaineering bookshop, where dad reminisced with the owner about trad climbing in the 70s. Guides in hand, we checked out the James Joyce foundation where the manager gave us a brief tour and showed Cihan the German translation of Ulysses which was banned from further publication.

Today is the 59th annual swim in the Limmat river, but no time for us to float - it's on to Meiringen via Luzerne now.Read more