Gruetzi Zurich...

I woke up in a good mood as Martina and I would join Bibi and Esther in Zurich today for the weekend. I was really looking forward to it as we both needed to disconnect after an intense month without hardly any time off. We did some work with Angelo and Arthos in the morning and then got ready for the trip. At about 2 pm, Jessica (who works in the office) drove us to the next train station so we could catch a train to Zurich. As we were happily sitting in the train, chatting about our life on the Laubberg, all of a sudden the train went backwards after having stopped for about 10 minutes in a station. This is when we realized that we were going back to where we just came from as we had missed to get out in Zurich!!! We had to go nearly all the way back and then got out at Baden and had to wait for the next train to go back to Zurich again...Well, it seems that Martina and I definitely needed some time off...Once we arrived, we asked our way through to our hotel, the Marriott, which was centrally located, close to the railway station. Esther and Bibi had already warned us that there was a problem with the rooms. We had booked a room for 4 and we got a room with two small beds only! After A LOT of negotiations, we finally got and upgrade to a suite which consisted of two connecting rooms for a relatively reasonable price. The best thing to this suite was the view as we could oversee the whole city with the lake and the mountains in the background. We dropped our luggage and joined Esther and Bibi at a charming beer garden which was right next to the hotel and close to the river. This is when we started to relax in the warm afternoon sun. We ordered some ‘Most’ which is a typical kind of cider and sat there for the rest of the day. We then got ready to go for dinner and went to the old part of town. We were starving and finally found a nice Italian restaurant where we ate so much bread to start with that we could hardly finish our main dishes. It was a funny evening and we couldn’t stop laughing but finally we all got so tired that we walked home and fall asleep very quickly.