Lost and Found

Maya left her jacket in Rapperswil yesterday. Today, she and I (Sylvia) had to trek back down there (Russell's note: on an S-Bahn commuter train), at the other end of Lake Zurich to recover the jacket. She left it at our first Swiss restaurant experience. The main dish was locally caught deep fried fish. We also tried the Swiss potato specialty known as Rosti, which are basically hash browns cooked in tons of butter. What's not to love about that? Normally, one doesn't eat Rosti with fish, but the chef broke the custom for us.


Maya with her recovered jacket, outside of the Rathaus restaurant in Rapperswil.


This morning, we walked from Zurich's main train station to the old part of town. We climbed up a church tower, saw Marc Chagall stained glass windows, ate at a sidewalk cafe (Russell actually ate a Focaccia and melted Brie sandwich), and had some gelato.

Russell's report:
I went trainspotting today at the main station and saw four different kinds of S-Bahn commuter trains. I saw an ICE high speed rail train and a TGV train. I also saw an InterRegio train which is the S-Bahn commuter trains' main rival and saw that it was inferior to the S-Bahn trains due to an oil leakage, not being as clean, lack of accessibility, and having only one floor in each carriage .


Russell and Ellen next to a TGV train.