Day 6, Lucerne Cruise and Zurich, Switzerland, 2021

This is my last full day in Switzerland. I got a pretty decent amount of sleep last night and wanted to make the most of my day with the most ease. With a little help from Rick Steves I decided to take a cruise on Lake Lucerne before hopping a train to Zurich.

No, Steve and Ash didn’t join me for breakfast. This little guy did.

Lainey usually gets to lick my plate clean when I have breakfast. I’ve been missing that. I sent Mike the video of the bird this morning and he said Lainey was jealous and sent me this video.

Clearly I’m at the “homesick” part of the trip.

I repacked my bags after breakfast and headed to the train station to store the luggage. The train station is directly across from the pier where I was to catch my boat. Ease.

The cruise was very relaxing and absolutely charming. This wasn’t a tourist boat, it was part of the Swiss transportation system taking people to Weggis from Lucerne. Weggis is good he jumping off point to head up to the top of Mount Rigi. I was just on for the round trip ride.

It took just under two hours to get Weggis and back and that was a perfect length of time for me. Here’s some video clips.

The boat docked across the street from the train station. In fewer than 10 minutes I’d retrieved my bags and was on a train to Zürich. So efficient!

45 minutes later I was on the quick walk to my hotel.

I needed a coffee and a little bite so I headed down the road to the old town area and ate.

I walked off some of that quiche around old town. I just meandered.

I ended up back at the hotel around 6:30pm. I was ready to sleep but stayed up long enough to repack my bag since I’ll be checking it for the homeward journey.

My flight isn’t until noon but I’ll be heading into the airport early for several reasons. 1. I hate running late to the airport. 2. I took my COVID test but want to make sure I don’t run into any problems at check-in. 3. I’ll have lounge access and will want to take advantage of that, preflight while I work on my summary of the trip. Plus I’ll probably get some Duty Free chocolate to bring home.

Thanks for following along! You’ll never guess what bakery I randomly came across in Zurich…