Hello friends, how are you? I hope you had a lovely week! I’m back today with another travelling post, and taking you someplace we’ve never been before together…on a day with me in Zurich, Switzerland!
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Just to give you some basic facts, we’re this summer 2016, and I went with my family on a road trip to Switzerland and Italy. We managed to see lots of things, but in the matter of just one day, we arrived and left Zurich. It was a very cloudy, and kind of rainy day so I apologize for the kind of grey pictures. Other than that, the city is very beautiful, and definitely worth stopping by.
WELCOME TO ZURICH?
We arrived in the morning to the city, which didn’t surprise me so much by its architecture. It’s very much like in Germany, and kind of in Alsace as well, so I wasn’t too shocked or astonished by it, but rather reminded of how simple yet beautiful it looks.
The Limmat is the river crossing the city of Zurich, before throwing itself in the Lake Zurich. I bet it must be lovely to walk along it when it’s sunny, unfortunately we didn’t have this chance, but we still managed to have some nice shots of the views.
Zurich is made of paved streets, ups and downs, and colorful houses unfortunately a bit shaded by the rain, but still cute, if you ask me.
Like the lovely tourists we are -well, strike that. Like the crazy planners we are, obviously, we had decided beforehand of what we wanted to see, where we wanted to go, and what we wanted to do in the short time we had at hand….
There’s the Grossmünster, a cathedral dated from the XIIe century. Kind of huge and impressive, if you ask me, and if you dare look back, well… it’s always there, peeking behind the houses.
There’s Fraumünster as well -fun fact: Frau means, Lady, in German – a church from the 11th century, looking all kinds of beautiful, if you ask me.
And obviously, we had to stop by the lake. I wish we had a better view, and kind of a better weather, but with the seagulls, we had nice companions.
The rain caught us in the early afternoon. Wet and kind of shivering in the middle of August, we still managed to end our tour of the city, before heading back into the car, and drive away to our next destination.
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This is SO not an exhaustive blog post about every lovely place and things to do in this city. Since we had just one day, and not much time, and a lot of rain, we obviously didn’t cover the whole city, and every lovely place we could have gone to.
? This being said, if you’re just in the city for one day, don’t bother try and running around everywhere. Simply walking, discovering the city and its vibes, really is the best way to fall in love with a place.
My advice, if you ever want to go there, is to take a good pair of shoes, an umbrella because well… you never know, a map, and just GO ahead and EXPLORE.
? Also, hm, Zurich and Switzerland in general is quite an expensive city. We made our own lunch, because let’s be honest, I’d rather be broke by booking plane tickets and buying too many books than buying a sandwich at like $10. Don’t we all?
I love it when you take us on trips with you 😀 It feels like the grey of that day suit the city perfectly, it looks gorgeous! I expected it to be expensive, even the name Zurich sounds rich, hahahaha!
Aww thank you so, so much my Sweechie <3 <3 Hahaha, it really does, well it looks expensive, with all the fancy shops, but it's absolutely gorgeous <3 I wish it was sunnier though, when we went, I bet the views of the lake would have been stunning 🙂
Oh my god, Marie. Take me with you next time you travel anywhere, okay? Thanks ? Zurich looks amazing!!
Okay ahah, would a weekend in a French city be okay? Probably my next destination ahah. It is such a beautiful place! I hope you’ll come to Europe someday! <3 Thank you!
I’d definitely love to visit Zurich. We were supppsed to go on holiday last year to Switzerland unfortunately that got cancelled but I want to go even more now. That lake is particularly magnificent.
Oh no, that’s too bad! I hope you’ll get to go someday soon, it’s definitely a beautiful country worth visiting! Where were you planning to go, exactly, any city in particular? 🙂 Thank you so much for stopping by! 🙂
It sucks that you went on a day when the weather wasn’t too great. The paved roads and buildings look really cute though! 🙂
Yes, that’s unfortunate I guess 🙁 We couldn’t be lucky during our whole trip, and I’m glad we kept the sun for Italy though ahah 🙂 Thank you so much <3
I know we just talked about how useful feedback can be, but I seriously have nothing to say hahaha I love your traveling posts! They are always extremely well structured with fun AND useful info. And there is also the right amount of pictures! Really can’t say more <3
Haha that’s completely okay. I have been thinking about this travelling feature, which I love doing, but wondering how I could make it more interesting or different. Thank you so much, I’m so glad you’re enjoying these <3 <3 <3
Definitely! Your travelling posts are always something I am looking forward to!
Aww well thank you Kat, that means SO much to me <3
You’re welcome <3 <3 <3
It definitely seems like you had a fun day trip to Zurich, and I think even though it was a little rainy and cloudy you still got some amazing pictures. <3 It looks like a beautiful city there, you've definitely made me want to go to Zurich at the next possible opportunity! 😀
Aww thank you so much Beth! It was a fun time, despite the rain – and well, running away from it was fun as well haha. I hope you’ll get the chance to visit someday! 🙂
The sign of a good holiday, when even the rain can’t ruin it! 🙂
Yeah I hope so too. ❤️
Exactly! 🙂
nice place, but the weather didn’t seem that nice. thankfully that didn’t spoil your visit.
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed this post 🙂 It didn’t spoil the visit, and the places still look really great, despite the rain, so we were still very happy to have made the trip 🙂
Rain is not unfortunate, rain is awesome! 😀 And In Zurich, no less. You snapped some amazing pictures.
Haha you’re right, well, rain can be great at times, I just wish we’d have seen the sun a little bit as well ? thank you so much!
OMG SO BEAUTFUL!!!!!
Aww thank you Becky, well, we have the city to thank for being pretty 🙂
Beautiful pictures.
Thank you so much! 🙂
Your posts make me want to travel so much! 😀 Zurich looks awesome, despite the weather! 🙂 And yeah- being broke from travel and books sounds better than being broke from lunch…wait…I CAN’T CHOOSE ANYMORE! :’)
Awww thank you, I think that’s the best compliment I could get 🙂 Hahaha, yes, is there any better way to spend money? 😛
Ooh looks lovely- even in the gloomy weather- kind of makes it nutter dramatic! Funnily enough, even though I’ve been to Switzerland a fair number of times I’ve never been to Zurich (unless you count the airport) it looks great!
Haha, well I guess it did give the city a bit of a dramatic atmosphere, haha. I hope you’ll get to this city someday, it’s definitely worth a visit 🙂 Thank you <3
haha yes! Hopefully- I’d like to go back to Switzerland at some point! You’re welcome <3
This place is SO BEAUTIFUL. AHHHH my forever crazy, you’re making me feel all the wanderlust, I MUST TRAVEL EVERYWHERE. The sights are so lovely and your photography is just so on point! I love this post so so much! <3
Aww thank you so, so much my forever cray <3 <3 I'm so happy you enjoyed this!
I want to go! I think the architecture in a lot of Europe is so pretty. Especially the places that have those window shutters. They are so cute! We hardly have anything like that in cities in the UK.
I totally agree with you – the best way to get to know a place is just wander around it. I have a friend who is really into those city coach trips you can do, but for me it isn’t the same as pacing the streets! There is so much you miss when you’re doing it from a coach.
Funny you should mention the window shutters, it’s something we noticed in our latest trip to the UK. I guess we’re so used to have windows shutters everywhere (both in my city, in France, and I guess in the countries around such as Germany and Switzerland), we didn’t even notice this the first time. I can’t choose who is weird now haha. It feels different, I guess, and that’s goood 🙂
OHh yes, I agree with you. I’m not too into these kind of things either. It’s practical at times – we did that for Stonehenge, since we didn’t rent a car or anything, and that place is in the middle of nowhere -, but it’s much, much more fun to pace the streets 🙂
Oh yeah, you totally need a car for Stonehenge. I always find it weird how this site of huge historical significance sits right next to the motorway.
I think the UK is totally the one doing it wrong. We are doing basically everything wrong. The other day someone at work was telling me it’s actually quite easy to get a work visa for Australia and now I’m like… maybe I should do that. When I have any money, at some distant point in the future, haha.
Right? I found that weird as well, kind of took a bit of the magic of this place.
Oh yes, it’s really easy to get a work visa for Australia! I would love to do that, but it’s really, realllyyyy far away haha. Who knows, maybe that’s what you’re supposed to do 🙂
I visit Zurich quite often and ALWAYS take umbrella with me 😀
In fact for the last year, I remember only rain and only few sunny days in summer))
Oh well, I could have used your advice before, then, aha, that’s good to know! Too bad there aren’t too many sunny days, I bet the city looks even prettier under the sun 🙂 Thank you so much for stopping by! 🙂
I wish I could blink and be there…or take a “road trip” to Zurich! How amazing is that? Take a road trip one day to freakin Switzerland!
I’m in the US, so I’m a little envious…lol. ?
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How great would it be if teleportation exist? And how come we didn’t invent this yet? It always makes me mad haha. Aww, well don’t be. We can trade places for a while, I’d love to do a road trip across the US ahah 🙂 Thank you! 🙂
Nice post! I was looking for stuff to do in Switzerland as I’m going in two weeks and found your blog which is about books instead – something I love. Glad to see you’re interested in that and traveling as well! I used to have a books blog a while back but moved onto a mainly travel one… nice to see both incorporated into one! But I’ll stop rambling now haha. Thanks for the info on Zurich!
Ohh well this makes me so, so happy, thank you! And please, ramble as long as you want haha, I don’t mind at all 😀 I wasn’t sure about incorporating travelling and books in one blog, but then I thought, “hey, it’s my blog, I do what I want” haha, and well… as long as you like what you do and write about, that’s what matters! 🙂
I hope you’ll have a wonderful trip! 🙂