Day 14: Adventures from Zurich

Hello from Zurich!

Today we had a slow morning, filled with laundry and hanging clothes on every knob, rail and surface found in the apartment.

 After laundry had been washed and hung to dry, we began our aimless wandering in Zurich…And let me tell you, there are sights to be SEEN here. 

The view from Lindenhof

The view from EHF Zurich

We swung on the swings at Lindenhof, hiked up to EHF Zurich (where Einstein studied physics and mathematics for undergraduate) to find Einstein’s locker, then made our way to the Lindt House of Chocolate.

Swinging at Lindenhof

Recreating one of the many statues we saw on our walk

Opening Einstein’s locker (one of Mozarts’s violin sonatas plays when you open the door!)

Here, we enjoyed some hot chocolate and sandwiches from the cafe, and saw every flavor of chocolate imaginable in the store.

Mountains of chocolate at the Lindt chocolate store

To return back to the city center, four of us took a ferry around Zürichsee, while the other two opted for a nice long walk back to the apartment.

Roxanne and I on the ferry

All together, we recorded ~43 miles walked (which is about 7 per person, but Rachael by far set the most mileage with 10.94 miles walked).

After a long day of noodling, we finished with a home cooked dinner (thank you Roxanne for making the delicious pasta!): alfredo pesto pasta, peppers, cucumbers, strawberries and blueberries. 

Our dinner! Seriously DELICIOUS 

Although the group is exhausted, and our clothes aren’t dry, this day turned out to be pretty incredible. 

While we were walking mile after mile, the other groups saw all sorts of cool things:

Kate, Jasper, Ben, and Grace went to the Prague Castle.

Megan saw the Munich Cathedral.

John went to the Munich Town Hall.

Collin saw the Salzburg Castle.

Sasha went to a HUGE market.

I can’t wait to get up to some more shenanigans tomorrow (hopefully with dry clothes)! Goodnight from Switzerland!

—Kaisa