Friday 24 February 2012

Flights home and Zurich

We left our hotel about 40 hours ago. We made the short hop from Zanzibar island to Dar es Salaam. With about 50 people we boarded a airbus 330-300 & hopped to Nairobi Kenya, where we picked up another 300 or so. Overnight flight to Zurich Switzerland with SwissAir was uneventful which was good arriving 6:30 local time. I would recommend SwissAir as the planes, food, and service have been great. The first class ( not us) looks great. You can stretch out into a full bed position, but at what $$?
We had a few hours in Zurich so grabbed a 10 minute train to downtown by the lake. At +5C we walked the historic area bordering Zurich's lake in the very early morning. We were recommended a restaurant called Sprungli's on Paradeplatz. We REALLY enjoyed a great quality breakfast of muesli, fantastic fresh breads, jams, cured meats, Swiss cheeses, real orange juice and coffee. (pic) It was 50 francs ($45.) for 2 but totally worth it. (The breakfasts in Zanzibar were included but always the same with fried eggs, toast, fruit, & poor coffee and needless to say we were wearying of it after 3 weeks of little variety.) Zurich is a beautiful city and we would love to return in the summer.
As we write, we have just braved a 10 hour flight into Chicago, complete with US customs (they could learn some things from European customs). Our flight to Winnipeg is delayed 2 hours due to rain/snow in Chicago area. All the flights in this area seem to be as the whole system bogs down. Hope to get to Holland by midnight. Over 48 hours since we left our hotel in Zans., but surprisingly, we feel pretty relaxed.
On this trip we have hit 7 countries, used 5 different currencies, have met people from a huge variety of countries, and taken off on 15 different flights for over 31,000 kms. including flying over the southern tip of Greenland on the flight from Zurich today. It has been a blast but we are now looking forward to home and the people we have been missing.
P.S. Leah got us home to the farm by midnight Thursday.


1 comment:

  1. You were in Zurich and I didn't know? Next time you should tell me:-) best, Nathalie

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