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I had an excellent surprise yesterday, my nephew @planetjones had purchased a Switzerland day pass valid on ALL public transport anywhere in Switzerland. It was a promotion been run at the CooP.<\/p>\nI had an excellent surprise yesterday, my nephew @planetjones had purchased a Switzerland day pass valid on ALL public transport anywhere in Switzerland. It was a promotion been run at the CooP.<\/p>\n
So it was decided to visit the Queen of Mountains – Mount Riga. This meant bus travel to Zurich main station then rail to Lucerne. We crossed the lake on a boat built in 1901 still using it’s paddle wheels (schrecklich<\/a>\u00a0– it was a whole 8mins late) . Alighting at Vitznau it was straight onto the mountain railway<\/a> that is even older than the boat, opened in 1871 and still in perfect working order!<\/p>\n At the top of Mount Riga we did the touristy thing taking photos and having lunch at\u00a0Hotel\u00a0Rigi Kul . After lunch it was a walk down the mountain, admiring the paragliders, with me shuddering at the thought of my last solo lesson where I nearly perched myself on the top of a conifer growing on a precipice \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n We caught the cable car down to Weggis and then the boat back to Lucerne for a wander along the historic (totally rebuilt after the disastrous fire 20 years ago) chapel bridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Then back to Zurich where one of our party immediately collapsed into bed with a migraine \ud83d\ude41 \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n So an amazing day clearly demonstrating the virtues of a fully integrated public transport system. Many thanks to Jonathan for organising it all so skilfully.<\/p>\n