October 12, 2018
Zurich - Switzerland by Rail
Innsbruck to Zurich
We had a successful day of train travel. We were delighted yesterday to discover there was no change of trains on our trip today. It meant once we boarded we really could just sit back and relax and enjoy the ride.
Our train left at 11:48 AM and that gave me a little bit of shopping time in Innsbruck. Just a little, but enough. The first shopping of the trip. Carrying everything on the back of a bike certainly discourages shopping. We really enjoyed our morning walk and popping into a few shops in the old town and it was another bluebird day.
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We met another bike tourer at the train station. He was also headed to Zurich, home for him. It meant at least three hands on deck when it was time to board and in the end there were five of us, the maximum the train can take.
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We arrived in Zurich Hbf at 15:30 and had a ticket on the S Bahn to Zurich Flughafen at 15:44. We were ready to find the train, but the sun was shining, we had our bikes and we love to ride. Keith had the track on his iPhone and we looked at each other and started pedaling. Yahoo! The best way to move a bike is to ride it. It was a brand new ride in the other direction. I was surprised at how short it was. From the train station to the airport was 12.4 km. It seemed longer in August when we ran into the two detours. Of course we also had to get all the way through to the other side of Zurich that time.
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Our government may think it's promoting wood construction (grown in BC!) but there aren't very many wood bridges anymore. And the old ones didn't have such beautiful lines.
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When we arrived at the hotel we had a celebratory photo shoot. We grabbed a young couple and he took our picture. The bikes are now in their boxes so there won’t be any riding tomorrow. Instead we are taking the S Bahn into Zurich and meeting our friend Karin for dinner. We met and spent a day together last year. We are really looking forward to seeing her. We had dinner in the hotel tonight and were immediately reminded we are in Switzerland. We ordered a bottle of sparkling water...9 Swiss Francs! Yikes. It is a good thing we weren’t wanting wine. We thought that might make us a bit fuzzy headed for the bike boxing job.
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Today's ride: 12 km (7 miles)
Total: 2,279 km (1,415 miles)
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