Monday, November 23, 2015

Zurich: Day 3


  OK... day three starts with the usual family fun... finding a pharmacy. Bailley has come down with a cold and is getting worse. We get medicine and start it immediately... hoping that will help her feel better.
  Next step... get comfortable with the tram system so we can go farther and quicker.

 
  Check... done. I guess Zurich is so small and there's such a good, huge landmark with the lake, it's really simple. 

  So the plan is to take the tram to the Swatch store for Cindy's souvenir and stop at a few chocolate stores.

 

  Well... I guess technically Cindy got a Swiss watch on our trip :)  Plastic or not, it _is_ Swiss. 
  Bailley was not feeling better, so we dropped her by the apartment to sleep while we explored on.

  We took the tram as far south as our zone 110 tickets allowed. There was a small park by the lake and we just took pictures and sat and peered out over the water for a bit. So serene and beautiful. In the distance, further south, you can see the snow covered Swiss Alps.

  Enough beautiful nature... mommy needs some chocolate.  On the way, we had the way-too-many-photo-ops problem we've been running into. To save everyone I chose just this one. Here's me, Madison and Abigail with Grossmünster in the background. Not too shabby for a cathedral started in 1100. It was inaugurated in 1220, so basically six generations of workers built that church.
  We made our way to Max Chocolatier... closed... so denied again. I understand why Europeans think we work all the time... because we do, and they don't. We left there and found Teuscher purely by accident. Bought some to sample and moved on. 

On the way to the next store, we passed directly under one of the pretty clock towers. The sides are all parallel so I stepped it off... ten meters on a side. The clock face is about 30 feet across. More impressive than even imagined from ground level. 

We made our way down Bahnhofstrasse until we found Sprungli. This seems to be the largest chain of chocolate shop. The shop was overwhelming which made it even more difficult to choose, but we did. Then we walked back and grabbed some samples from Läderach which is close to our apartment. 

   OK, so lunch done... now time to try all the chocolate. The Swiss do indeed seem to know what they are doing with chocolate and milk that's for sure.
  After a short break all the girls went out to look at some clothes shops. I went the opposite direction and went to ask about train tickets. On my way back, the tram was crowded, so I decided just to walk back to the festival where we said we would all meet up.

Which allowed me to get this picture... not sure you can sum up Zurich any better than that.

Jim

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