Zurich to Zordeling

18 august 2006

We slept at the Hotel domicile after searching for an hour for a hotel or pensione. We got off of the highway near Winterthur (past Zurich) and drove through a little Swiss hamlet…it did not look so good…we asked a young Swiss woman if she spoke English and she directed us to a pensions. As we were traveling the two blocks, some young kids yelled at us and chased after us, the crazy Americans! A young redheaded girl was on her bike and spoke to us in French as we neared the hotel…which Amy deduced was closed since the owners were on holiday. We tried a few other towns and then stopped at a gas station where some cute Swiss guys directed us to a nearby hotel. Afer getting lost again, and stopping at another Shell station where another handsome Swiss guy gave us directions again. Amy decided that from now on she will be the one to ask for directions!

The hotel was very modern, furnished like Ikea and Marijam made up a room for us as we ate dinner. Amy I had Swiss salads with beautiful arrangements of little piles of corn, pasta, beets, tomatoes, little lentils, and eggs…Jeff had the sausage and frites. We left Amy in the room while Jeff and I drove around a bit looking for an unsecured wireless connection that we could tap into…we found some but just couldn’t connect.

We went back to the room and used the wifi (about $5 for 30 minutes…) I needed to get Heidi’s address since I thought Jeff had it and he thought I had it. I updated my blog and Amy checked out her myspace…We fell into bed about midnight under these great pillow comforters..interesting… no sheets….but lovely!

Friday morning we had breakfast and we on our way. We knew we should have backtracked back to the highway but instead we thought we were on the highway…and ended up spending an hour trying to get back… We followed the signs to Wil, and Wil would be delighted if he saw this place…similar to Washington but also miles and miles of farmland with cows and sheep. Although we felt a bit stressed since we were now really off schedule, we got a beautiful (hour long) snapshot of rural Swiss life.


We are now an hour short of Munich and refuled our car and our wallets and called Bernd to tell him that we will be late. He was happy to hear from us and said that everyone was excited to see us. Another adventure awaits as we meet Ruth, Heidi, Kirt Peter, Tine and Romi and all their families…Gutentag!!