Last stop: Zurich! We arrived at the lovely Schweizerhof Zurich a couple of hours early for our check-in. The Swiss know how to welcome you even when your room is not ready. They provided warm washcloths to wipe our weary brows and hands.

It’s also not too early for Prosecco! Prost!

Our luggage was corralled and would appear in our rooms later in the afternoon, but now it was time, once again, to find food.

Eating times were more flexible than in Italy, but all restaurants were packed. We waited quite a while to be seated at yet another Italian restaurant, which was okay with us. Then, on to the city.

Zurich is a bit fancier than Lucerne. Food and wine were more expensive than in Italy. The city has a feel of old Switzerland mixed with a bit of modern, like this unique fountain.

Bob and I walked up many steps to view the city from a lovely park above it all – a great vantage point. In my earlier post about Switzerland, I mistakenly posted some Zurich photos as from Lucerne. Sorry for the inaccuracy. These are the steps we climbed for our views of the city.

Worth the steps for the great views.

We were happy to have made the hike.

There are a lot of bikes in Europe, and you have to store them somewhere. We passed this bike shed on our walk back down to street level.

If we had known about the stork-themed hotel, I’d have flocked to it.

Notice the stork on the roof, too.

By now we really wanted a good burger. We found a rooftop restaurant with good reviews, and it had to be accessed through a department store. They were able to seat us, but we had to literally crawl over a couple people to get to our noisy seats. After three minutes, we crawled back over the same people. It was so loud in there that we felt our age, but we still had it in us to practically leap over other guests to escape.

Like an oasis in the dessert, we spotted a burger place – the Black Tap Craft Burgers and Beer. We got in the queue and immediately a line formed behind us. Maybe they followed us from the rooftop! Either way, we barely beat the crowd! I guess I was too hungry to take a picture, but the burger was top notch.

The inside was interesting – modern with a young vibe. We were probably the oldest people in there.

When we got back to our hotel room, room service rang our doorbell (that’s right, it had a doorbell). A bellman with a cart full of more types of Swiss chocolate than I could count greeted us offering whatever our hearts desired. Such a sweet way to end our time in Switzerland.