Hello Zurich

We finally made it to Zurich! Our flight from Boston to Frankfurt was great and we managed to get several hours of sleep, but we didn’t realize what we were getting into at the Frankfurt airport. We had a little less than an hour layover and quickly realized we weren’t making our flight. We were taken from the plane on a 15 minute shuttle ride to the airport. Then, we were placed in a 1/4 mile long line (no exaggeration) to go through customs. Luckily it moved quick but now it was 6:15 and our flight was taking off at 6:05. Oh well. After customs we had to go back through security. No big deal. We get through at 6:40 and Dave starts walking quickly to our gate. No clue why, our flight already left. Well- 6:45 and as we approach the gate, they start getting so excited- they held the plane for us! We couldn’t believe it but understood why - there were only 20 people on a huge plane!!

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Dave’s version-

We were waiting to get off the plane and I had the audacity to let the older lady across the aisle get out… you’ve never seen Carrie glare like that. I was moving too slow and we had to get off the plane. She suggested that we tell everyone in front of us that we were going to miss our flight. I did not do that.

We got out and we were all stuck in shuttles waiting. Including the older lady.

Eventually Carrie gave up on the flight when she saw the customs line. 10s of minutes later we get through… I’m walking and hear “i can’t walk that fast”… and then we get to the gate and make our flight bc they were waiting for us.

Tl;dr - Carrie got mad at me for not speeding up when it didn’t matter and then didn’t speed up herself. And literally just told me I was wrong again while she’s watching me read this.

Still marital bliss, but never going to let her forget that
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Our flight to Zurich took less than an hour and afforded us some welcoming views of the Swiss alps as we landed. After some confusion, we grabbed a train to Zurich and took a short walk to our hotel. We passed over a beautiful bridge with a gorgeous view and entered old town Zurich. Our room wasn’t ready so now we are sitting at Babus Bakery enjoying our first European meal of the trip. Delish!

We started wandering and discovered some beautiful views of the lake and the mountains behind. We are both really enjoying this beautiful town so far and the lake scene does not hurt. As we wandered, we discovered a huge flea market stretching several blocks long and have explored every grocery store and pharmacy (did we mention that Dave left his entire toiletry case at home?).

We stopped at Fraumunster church and I made a quick visit to see the gorgeous Chagall windows. The colors were so beautiful and vibrant. Pretty amazing to think he was in his late 70s when he created them. A quick pit stop outside the church in the shade (see pic of Dave sleeping) and we were off wandering again.

We strolled up to the Lindenhof Platz and took in some gorgeous views of Zurich as we watched all the instagrammers take their staged pics. It was quite amusing.

A little more wandering, a little more shopping at the pharmacy and we headed back towards the hotel. I was hot, tired and getting cranky (notice there are no pics of me napping) so we stopped the the Kweer bar and cafe around the corner from our hotel for a much needed iced americano and apricot croissant- YUM! Back to the hotel to check in and Dave had me and the front desk lady laughing hysterically (who probably is now telling her friends about the stupid american) as he told her that the first restaurant she recommended cost too many CHF (pronounced by Dave as a joke as “Chefs- emphasis on the CH). She then started recommending dinner places, crossing some off the list for us because they’d cost too many CHefs. Picture Carrie shaking her head in shame :).

Our hotel room is very nice. We have a decent size room and shower with AC and a gorgeous view of a nearby clock tower. I just love Zürich.

In an attempt to stay awake until 10, we grabbed our favorite European drink- a Hugo Spritzer and then dinner (thanks to Chat GPT) at the Rheinfelder Bierhalle where we tried schnitzel and bratwurst along with Rosti. We had a great meal, talking with one couple from Arizona and another from the area who wanted to know all our thoughts on the current administration. It was pretty interesting. Finished the night with some delicious gelato and we were both fried!

Todays observations:
1) similar to how we incorporate other languages phrases into our conversation (like voila), other languages incorporate English into theirs. Sitting listen to a full German conversation and the guys just interjected, “Das ist awesome”.
2) Germanic people love their gummy bears. We have been given them on the plane and in the hotel
3) not only do cars stop for pedestrians, but bikers do as well- there’s no exception however, the trolleys absolutely do not.

Step count: 18,353; 7.16 miles. Not too shabby!Leer más