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Day 6 Zermatt to Lucerne Part 2
Sorry it’s been a while. I’ve settled into the new office and back from a number of quick trips to Austin, Vegas, WDW and Georgia for Thanksgiving! Of course I had high expectations to finish my trip report on those trips, but it didn’t happen. Quick shout out to Karen C, Karen P and Chandra! Karen and Karen and I met up earlier in the week I was at WDW and I bumped into Chandra at a D23 event later in the week. It was like a mini reunion.
And on with the show…
We arrived in Lucerne in the afternoon. Our hotel was the Schweizerhof - very fancy. It looks over the lake and we all had lakefront rooms. Apparently, it was voted as one of the top hotels in Switzerland. A fancy dinner at the hotel was planned for the evening. So for now, it was off to see a bit of the city.
The hotel is very conveniently located next to the downtown shopping district so it was an easy walk. There you’ll see the famous old bridge of Lucerne and countless watch, chocolate, and stores selling Swiss Army Knives.
I had to sport a tee shirt of my new favorite city, Zermatt. Ah Lucerne is nice, but I miss Zermatt.
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The bridge in all it’s glory. Unfortunately, though built hundreds of yrs ago, it was mostly destroyed by fire in 1993. Much of what you see has been rebuilt. But it is gorgeous.
Many of the buildings have painted murals on the front. It was fun trying to guess what their meaning was. The next morning we did have an official walking tour and that explained some of them.
They had an entire store of Swiss Army Knives. I didn’t buy one as I don’t know how or why I would ever use one, but I have to admit they’re pretty cool! This one is one of the originals.
The requisite view from the room. All the rooms had a musical theme. Ours had 2 opera stars - Pavarotti and Jose Carreras
It was a nice room, although perhaps wasted on me as I’m not a huge opera or sports fan.
We freshened up after our walk and down to dinner we went. The guides had you pick times to eat, but pretty much everyone chose the same time and we had the restaurant almost to ourselves.
Fun times with good friends…
Dinner was interesting. I think many people including me were expecting the worst having been well versed with Mary’s trip report of the same ABD. Suffice it to say, Mary did not have a great experience here. Well it was actually ok for us. I don’t think it deserves high praise, but it was ok.
I thought the Schweizerhof’s “SH” logo was funny as it looked like a $ on every plate.
After dinner a group of us decided to head across the lake to a bar recommended to us at one of the shops we did serious damage at. So off we went:
Our beautiful hotel across the river if not oddly colored by lights…
So it was about this time that most of the group was far ahead of us. Will and I took our time taking pictures as we went. Then suddenly we started feeling a couple of rain drops. Then a few more. We walked faster… Then it poured and we ran! We made it to a bus station across the bridge and checked our phones. Apparently everyone else walked calmly back at the first drop of rain. They were back at the hotel at the bar under a front porch. Nice and warm and dry. We were not…. So we made a run for it. Across the river and back down the street stopping from time to time under trees. Finally made it to the group table just in time to put our drink orders in… Good times.
I can’t remember what I ate that night. I can’t remember the names or dates of the churches and buildings we saw while walking around Lucerne earlier in the day. But I can remember running through the rain on our way back to hang out with good friends. As they say, it was the best of times.
Sorry it’s been a while. I’ve settled into the new office and back from a number of quick trips to Austin, Vegas, WDW and Georgia for Thanksgiving! Of course I had high expectations to finish my trip report on those trips, but it didn’t happen. Quick shout out to Karen C, Karen P and Chandra! Karen and Karen and I met up earlier in the week I was at WDW and I bumped into Chandra at a D23 event later in the week. It was like a mini reunion.
And on with the show…
We arrived in Lucerne in the afternoon. Our hotel was the Schweizerhof - very fancy. It looks over the lake and we all had lakefront rooms. Apparently, it was voted as one of the top hotels in Switzerland. A fancy dinner at the hotel was planned for the evening. So for now, it was off to see a bit of the city.
The hotel is very conveniently located next to the downtown shopping district so it was an easy walk. There you’ll see the famous old bridge of Lucerne and countless watch, chocolate, and stores selling Swiss Army Knives.
I had to sport a tee shirt of my new favorite city, Zermatt. Ah Lucerne is nice, but I miss Zermatt.
The bridge in all it’s glory. Unfortunately, though built hundreds of yrs ago, it was mostly destroyed by fire in 1993. Much of what you see has been rebuilt. But it is gorgeous.
Many of the buildings have painted murals on the front. It was fun trying to guess what their meaning was. The next morning we did have an official walking tour and that explained some of them.
They had an entire store of Swiss Army Knives. I didn’t buy one as I don’t know how or why I would ever use one, but I have to admit they’re pretty cool! This one is one of the originals.
The requisite view from the room. All the rooms had a musical theme. Ours had 2 opera stars - Pavarotti and Jose Carreras
It was a nice room, although perhaps wasted on me as I’m not a huge opera or sports fan.
We freshened up after our walk and down to dinner we went. The guides had you pick times to eat, but pretty much everyone chose the same time and we had the restaurant almost to ourselves.
Fun times with good friends…
Dinner was interesting. I think many people including me were expecting the worst having been well versed with Mary’s trip report of the same ABD. Suffice it to say, Mary did not have a great experience here. Well it was actually ok for us. I don’t think it deserves high praise, but it was ok.
I thought the Schweizerhof’s “SH” logo was funny as it looked like a $ on every plate.
After dinner a group of us decided to head across the lake to a bar recommended to us at one of the shops we did serious damage at. So off we went:
Our beautiful hotel across the river if not oddly colored by lights…
So it was about this time that most of the group was far ahead of us. Will and I took our time taking pictures as we went. Then suddenly we started feeling a couple of rain drops. Then a few more. We walked faster… Then it poured and we ran! We made it to a bus station across the bridge and checked our phones. Apparently everyone else walked calmly back at the first drop of rain. They were back at the hotel at the bar under a front porch. Nice and warm and dry. We were not…. So we made a run for it. Across the river and back down the street stopping from time to time under trees. Finally made it to the group table just in time to put our drink orders in… Good times.
I can’t remember what I ate that night. I can’t remember the names or dates of the churches and buildings we saw while walking around Lucerne earlier in the day. But I can remember running through the rain on our way back to hang out with good friends. As they say, it was the best of times.