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Swiss-ful Thinking
Post No. 12. Luzern is Lovely the Second Time Around. September 14, 2023 Today was our day to show off to Lisa our new-found familiarity with Luzern. The first stop was the Jesuit Church (Jesuitenkirche), which is the first major Baroque church in Switzerland (c. 1670). The interior was once decorated in Baroque style, but…
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Post No. 11: Out and About in Zürich, Redux. September 13, 2023. I write this on our terrace at 10 Naphthastrasse, in the middle of a lovely evening thunderstorm. The view and sound of the lightning and thunder are glorious. For the first time in 12 days, little chilly here, but what the hell. The…
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Post No. 10: Zug September 12, 2023 I wanted to see the town of Zug in part because Zug has a Kunstmuseum with a collection of some of my favorite artists, Shiele, Klee, Klimt, Kokoschka. We should have known something might be awry when we looked up Zug in Rick Steves’ guide, and found that…
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Post No. 9: Beautiful Downtown Zürich September 11, 2023. Yesterday, Sunday, was a day of rest for this writer and his editor. Today, we followed Rick Steves’ walking tour of the Altstadt (Old Town). But first lunch. Son-in-law Neil had given us a tip regarding the restaurant Haus Hiltl. In 1898, so we’re told, Ambrosius…
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Blogeintrag Nr. 8. Rapperswil-Jona; Markthalle IM Viadukt September 9, 2023. After all the driving over the past two days, we wanted something closer to home. Stef had marked down a town about a half-hour outside of Zürich, called Rapperswil-Jona, as having a lovely Schloß (castle) and a rose garden, and other charming features. We headed…
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Septième Poste. Turckheim et le retour à Zürich. Le 8 Septembre, 2023. The morning was fairly leisurely: breakfast and packing up for the 20-minute drive westward into Alsatian wine country. Of the many towns on the Route des Vins (some say Route du Vin), we picked Turckheim. The Route runs for 90 miles; the region’s…
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Sixième Poste. Strasbourg Le 7 Septembre, 2023. We left the car in Colmar today. Walked to the Gare Colmar-Saint-Joseph and took the train to Strasbourg, easy-peasy 30-minute ride. Strasbourg feels like a giant Colmar, but less touristy and more authentic. There are lots of canals with bridges festooned with flowers: We walked from the Gare…
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Poste No. 5. Bienvenue en France (Colmar) Le 6 Septembre, 2023. This morning, our GPS got us from Zürich to Colmar in an hour and a half. After checking into the Hotel Mercure Unterlinden, out to find lunch. They have an interesting way of serving salad in this town, i.e., by depositing pieces of toasted…
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Post No. 4. (Gemütlich) Sein in Stein September 5, 2023 Translated roughly, “Be happy in Stein,” referring to Stein-am-Rhein, today’s adventure. Drove off this morning and headed first to the Rheinfall (Rhine waterfall), northeast of Zürich, near the above-mentioned town of Stein-am-Rhein. The waterfall was formed by tectonic shifts during the last ice age (about…
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Post No. 3. Luzern September 4, 2023 Today was our first real “vacation day.” We picked up our rental car at Sixt about a block away, turned out to be a Ford Focus automatic, instead of a Peugeot manual, but hey, you gotta be flexible on vacay. In going to the garage to get the…
