We're here in frozen Switzerland, ready to ring in the New Year! We flew from SLC > DEN > MUC > ZRH and landed today around noon. We had the great fortunate of flying Lufthansa, which I deeply love, and the misfortune of *apparently* choosing a type of ticket from United that forced me to pay $60 for my checked bag (I never check bags, but the amount of gear one has to pack to stay warm consumes a lot of space). Once in Zurich, we exchanged our cash at a UBS bank at the airport, and then popped downstairs to visit the rail office. There is an undeniably great deal from SBB here for riding all rail lines in the country for 8 straight days for a fixed fee, so we sprung for it (there's also a half fare card that works well if you're not spanning two calendar months, but alas, we were). You can download the SBB Mobile app for their schedules and information - it's a piece of cake to use!
We're planning to roughly follow the itinerary of The Invisible Tourist (here) after our New Years celebrations, heading down to Lucerne and Interlaken, Zermatt and possibly Bern, if we have time. We read about a very random, awesome parade in Lucerne on Jan 2 called Harder-Potschete. When I sent Derek the link, he simply responded, "Well obviously that's happening."
We're staying at Hotel Marta, just one street off the Limmat River. When we got in, we took the train to the downtown station, walked a few minutes to our hotel, checked in immediately and fell asleep for 7 hours...not ideal, unless one of you is massively sleep-deprived from being on nights at the hospital. We woke up at 10, just in time to grab dinner at Calypso Grill, an open street restaurant serving bratwurst. We walked down the river and took pictures of the lights and Christmas trees still decorating the cobblestone streets, and headed in to check out the footage on my new dji osmo pocket, so Derek can make fun short videos of our trip.
Tomorrow, we'll meet up with our good friends, Diane and Jared, who live in Germany, to ring in the New Year, and at the moment, we have zero planned, so while we're wide awake in the middle of the night, we'll take advantage of our enthusiasm and get something of a skeleton plan under us for tomorrow.
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