Zurich’s Waterways April 2, 2010
Posted by Chris in : Zurich , trackbackAfter having breakfast at a bakery across the street from our hotel this morning, we took the train into Zurich proper to wander around the city and fairly quickly discovered, to our delight, that Zurich has a river and fairly large lake that connect near the center of the city!
The view out onto the lake is stunning, featuring a backdrop of mountains in addition to the boats sailing around the lake. The lake is a gorgeous, deep blue and is actually large enough that there are waves splashing into the park that runs along the lake!
Where the river connects to the lake, there is the park on one side and large masses of people on the other side enjoying the sunny day today and being Good Friday I’m guessing that a lot of them were enjoying the beginning of their 3 day weekends!
In the park near the merger of river and lake, there is this giant clock colored with pansies, the hands of the clock were probably around five feet long which made the clock both large and smelly! (In a good way)
Along the park as well were several places offering food, lake cruises, and more; however, they were all quite pricey so we opted out for now, maybe another day.
While walking through the park, we found a larger park attached along the water and moved into it, enjoying slightly more separation from the city so that there was less noise and more people playing Frisbee and kicking a soccer ball, among others. We also found a aviary in this park that held some interesting birds, including a giant Victoria Crown Pigeon(<–).
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Great Good Friday picture of the flower bed clock! Happy Easter!