Zürichsee, Grossmünster Kirche and Fraumünster Kirche

Experience Zürich at Lake Zürich!

As though a European custom to close shops on Sundays was set to annoy tourists, who like me, are unfamaliar to the culture of a "Schöne Wochenende" where people simply sit at their balconies chatting and nothing that could be deemed as excitable, a lazy Sunday was spent walking around the city center fawning over swans in the lake, climbing up the church's tower which did promise a good bird's eye view of the city and the lake beyond to the Alps, soaking in the summer sun that is fast turning its back away to Fall has never been that relaxing. Ahh... really wish the weather would remain like that, but from Sunday onwards, it has been cloudy, misty, foggy - weather far from being describable as fine.

Scenes by the Lake. Background: Two towers - Grossmünster Kirche a romanesque-styled church

Alongside the banks, the sun, cooling winds, are perfect compounds for a nice stroll

Still, musty air in dark, narrow passages winding helically upwards, compounded by the lack of proper directional flows, could possibly be a stampede nightmare, and a suffocating one to add. Scaling upwards spirally for half a minute was quite enervating, until the passage forked out into a larger compound with more airflow was it less claustrophobic.

View at Grossmünster Church

A round of scaling exercise at upscaled extents did not dilute the wanderlust for churches and the next destination was Fraumünster Church.

Fraumünster Kirche

The Fraumünster Church - the stained glass windows are by Marc Chagall. - the song in the background is probably by Bach.



The Fraumünster Church - the song in the background is Solveig's Song by Edvard Grieg.

2 churches for the day and it was decided that it is enough, despite there's another famous one awaiting our glorious arrival, that we may leave it for another day, or perhaps never!

View of Lake Zürich and beyond

The intensive language course started today, where we all had our mini-test to stream us into the correct niveau... i'm dead, for Comprehension, I think I only got one 1 out of 6 right!