Lucerne

Lucerne 

Trivia was not good yesterday! The afternoon was lovely, calm seas and warm sunshine. We say farewell to our head waiter Arthur and his assistant Olena. We head off to bed early as we are meeting up for breakfast at 6.45. The morning is bright with a clear sunny day. After breakfast we prepare to disembark only to be told there could be a 20 min delay. We are not too concerned as our flight to Zurich is not until 1.45. We are all off by 8.15 and waiting for our booked transport. He turns up and we are on our way. Our driver tells us we should be there by 9.45 and we arrive before 10. We progress through booking in and paying for our luggage. We are told we should have done it on line as it is cheaper and the attendant was surprised when we said it was not available from Australia. She thought that was very unusual. Will need to let Kirk know when we get back. After passing through boarding control we have 3.5 hours to wait. Decide to pick up some baileys and port at duty free!

We board our flight on time and head off for Zürich. We have a cheese roll and some Swiss chocolate - yeah! As we land it is raining! We pass through immigration and pick up our bags and head off to find the train station. We find the signs and head off and end up on platform 3 which happens to be the correct platform. We find out the next train is 5.47 and we have just over 30 minutes to wait. The train has limited luggage room and we are forced to stand in the doorway with our luggage for the entire journey which takes just over an hour. It is dark, overcast and light rain as we emerge from the station. The ride was very smooth. We get our bearings and head off to find the hotel. It is a short walk and we arrive. As we book in the girl says that the mini bar is complimentary- yahoo! However there is no alcohol in the mini bar, but there is chips, chocolate and soft drink. It is now after 7.30 and we are feeling tired. The hotel and rooms are great. Ann and I have a walk around the area and Lucerne looks like a lovely place. We will all have a good look around tomorrow.