Meghan and I are having fun learning a few German words and phrases from Béat in our car ride back to St-Imier from Lucerne. We're trying to prepare for Oktoberfest next week. We keep seeing signs with the word "ausfahrt" along the highway, and each time we giggle like 5 year olds. Turns out it means "exit," which, let's face it, makes sense.
Zurich is a beautiful city. Full of business men and women in suits. We shopped around and were not as surprised by the prices of clothes as the prices of food. A bottle of water cost 5 swiss francs, which is pretty close to the dollar now. We enjoyed some outstanding Swiss muesli, packed with the freshest fruit.
While i like Zurich, Lucerne is more my style. A smaller city on a lake. And even more my style are the smaller towns up in the mountains like Sainte Imier. Here's some pictures of the day...
The streets of Zurich:
The old bridge at Lucerne:
Big 5 franc coin with the Swiss flag hanging above:
Walking with Béat, our wonderful host, in Lucerne:
And now for some arty photos...
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Is that a man flying away on a balloon? Switzerland really is magical... or maybe the cheese has made him gassy.
ReplyDelete(Ausfahrt made me laugh too. I'm not mature enough for Swiss road signs.)