Hiking up Uetliberg

Everyone enjoyed a mega snooze (10hrs 18m according to my watch), which did wonders to fight jet lag and put us on Central European Time. The hotel served an amazing breakfast spread, and we ate our full to prep for the day. There's a good number of Americans around, in for a Taylor Swift concert this evening. They provided our mealtime entertainment, as one of the dads mistook a huge slab of butter for a soft cheese. Laura and I had a hard time keeping it together.

We took the train up to Uetliberg for some hiking, which only took about 20 minutes. The train system is amazing here, seems like you can get anywhere, everything runs on time, and if you miss a train you won't have to wait long. We took a relatively short path up to Aussichtsturm Uetliberg - Top of Zurich and enjoyed the view of the city from above on the left, and a stunning, cloud laced vista of the countryside on the right. We hiked back down the path, passing the Artilleriebeobachtungsbunker Löwenbräustübli (say that three times fast) and hooking our way back up to the train station to catch the train back to Zurich.

After a nap, the final step in the fight-off-jetlag plan, we went to the gym and had a light lunch from the Aldi right around the corner from the hotel. We were careful not to overeat before our day's main event, a Zurich city food tour.Read more