Today was our day off, the lot of us perl 6 folks. David, one of our hosts at ETH, took us to Luzern to show us the sights. It was a short train trip, then a walk around the center of the city and through some of the narrow, winding streets. That was pretty cool.
We found an old fortification wall with towers along it, and took a walk through. It was great, and we got an amazing view of the city. And cows. (Which we've seen rather a lot of in various forms) Though these cows were much more realistic being, after all, real cows. (We'd seen the most gaudy red with white crosses paper mache cow in the railway station gift shop)
Luzern is on a series of interconnected lakes, and after lunch we took a boat ride down the lake to catch a cable car up the side of a mountain. Then rather more of a hike to an elevator, which took us up even further, to the very top of the mountain. It was about 2100m total elevation, and the view was astounding. We just wandered around and looked. I took some pictures, but they don't do the place justice.
We caught the 4:35 train back to Zurich, and met up with Fritz, our other host, for a nice dinner. It was an entirely pleasant end to this leg of the trip, and a productive leg at that. Now to get things packed up for tomorrow's trip to Munich by train.
Posted by Dan at September 18, 2002 07:15 AM