"Brrrrrrrrr - plenty of snow" a Zürich Travel Page by jo104

My most recent trip was to Zurich where I met up with my friend from South Africa who had never seen snow. Well she saw plenty of it this holiday, it snowed several days which I believe is unusual for Zurich. We found the city extremely expensive and the people very friendly. The city is small enough to walk around but we were going to do a walking tour around the old town for CHF 20 but our guide got hit by a car so that was halted. We did a few bus tours which were nice taking us outside city limits & into Leichestein.

By the way prepare yourself for almost all food to be served with potatoes & no vegetable. Ordering a green salad will mean a bowl full of only cabbage like green leaves.

We found ourselves buying cheese, ham & rolls for a day out & water then just purchasing soup to keep warm at restaurants.

Remember watching Heidi on tv well this is the place & I believe in summer you can go to her village & perhaps meet Pieter with his goats.

We certainly had to wear all our clothes like she did

Unfortunately when we got to the top the visability was poor and there was so much snow we were unable to leave the enclosed area.

On a clear day this trip includes a trip on an ice flyer over the glacier & a fun snow slide. We had to settle watching the video. The snow was too soft to build a snowman.

This was my friends first time seeing snow so guess she really maxed out this trip!!. Five layers looking like the michelan man and still cold!!