Switzerland: Home to Beautiful Views and All Things Expensive

Here's the second post of my binge blogging session to make up for my laziness the past few weeks. This one is going to be about our trip to Zurich. This trip was actually a blind booking, meaning that we were given a selection of cities to travel to on the eurowings website and we wouldn't figure out where wee were going until after we paid. This time it turned out to be Zurich. 

Let me tell you something. Everything you hear about Switzerland being expensive is very, very accurate. We noticed this when we first got to Zurich and we were looking for a place to eat. We weren't finding anything under maybe 18 Franks( 1 US dollar = 1 Swiss Frank). By the end of this trip, we realized that 18 was not a bad price for a meal. A burger from the Burger King at the train station is 16 CHF(Swiss Franks, I don't understand the symbol for it either). 

When we arrived in Zurich it was very overcast, which was disappointing because we weren't able to see the Alps that surrounded the city. On our first day there we went on a free city walk tour. It was very informational and I definitely learned things about the history that I would not have heard if I didn't go on the tour. Compared to most other big European cities there didn't seem to be many historical monuments in Zurich. Even though there may not be much to see in Zurich, in regards to the previous statement, it's a beautiful city in the mountains with all sorts of cobblestone alleys scattered throughout. My favorite part of the city is Lindenhof, a park that has a great overlook of the city on the river. That's definitely where I got my most instagram-worthy pictures. 

That next day a few of us went to the Rhine falls, which is close to the Swiss/German border. It's said to be the largest waterfall in all of Europe. When we got there, though, we all were wondering in what regard this waterfall was the largest because it certainly couldn't be the tallest. We hypothesized that maybe it had the largest amount of water going through it or that maybe it is the widest. While here, we were able to hike all around the area to get different views of the falls. Our train ride there was very interesting, in that, there'd be parts where it was snowing and then in the next few minutes we'd be in the sun. Very strange, but very entertaining we thought.