Another rainy morning...in Zurich

We came to Zurich from Lucern, the day after the trip to Engelberg. It rained the whole time we were in Zurich, so it really wasn't that great a visit. But we did what we could to make the most of our trip...

the train station (we took the train everywhere...we had the Swiss Pass, remember?)

along Bahnhofstrasse (see the train station at the end of the street?)

It was Sunday, and a rainy one at that...so I guess it's normal for there not to be much people about.

a street with plenty of flags

Zurich is a shopping city. We weren't interested in shopping, but we did look at some shops... (which were closed, by the way)

lovely (or buggy?) chocolates
Check out the skater-bugs!

Mother's Day was coming up (it was the beginning of May)

a lion in a shop window! *roar*

a hedgehog and a hippo in a motorcar

some bunnies and a wild boar in front of the car
Oh no, they're gonna be crushed! :P

more bears in a motorcar

Okay, that done, let's continue sightseeing :P First we were walking (heading south) on the west bank of the river. We went into a few small streets.

on a small square

That's what's on the square...but I have no idea what building it is :P

a pretty little street leading away from that square (with more flags)

St. Peter's church
It has the largest church clock-face of Europe.

Fraumünster Church
There are some "world-famous Chagall Stained Glass Windows" in there, but we know nothing about them :P

That is the Grossmünster across the bridge (Münsterbrücke).
The whiter building on the right is the Water Church (Wasserkirche).

And to the left of the Grossmünster, there is the Rathaus (town hall) at the end of the other bridge (Rathausbrücke).

Quaibrücken (the bridge) in the distance with Lake Zurich (Zürichsee) beyond it

Fraumünster Church from the other side of the bridge (the side where the Grossmünster is)

a closer view of the Grossmünster's two domes

Limmatquai (the east bank of the river; the river is called the Limmat) with the Rathaus on the left (the small building)

the Stadhaus (the building with the triangular roof in the middle of the photo, I don't know about the one on its left) beside the Fraumünster Church.

another view across the river

There you can see the Stadhaus and the Fraumünster Church side-by-side, and the St. Peter's church as well further to the right.

Zürichsee
Yay, I caught a bird on the bottom-right corner. (did I mean to do that? I can't remember...lol)

pity it was so cloudy and misty

there was some fountain-like thing in the distance

the Quaibrücken (with the Zürichsee on the left)

view from the Quaibrücken, towards the Zurich town centre

On the way back to the train station, we took a different route (on the east bank of the river instead) and passed the front of the town hall.

the town hall

Then I noticed this "airline bar & lounge"

What's cute is how they put a little plush airplane there :P

I'm not sure what bridge this is, but this is the view along the Limmat river towards the Zürichsee

If I'm not mistaken, it was when we were quite near to the train station that someone who was waiting to cross the road with us asked whether we were Chinese/Japanese (can't remember which). We said we were Malaysian and he said a few more things, but I can't remember what -_- (that's what I get for blogging so long after the fact!) I just remember that he seemed quite chatty.

And that's all for Zurich! We spent only a little more than two hours there, partly because of the rain, I think. There were boat rides on the lake, but in that weather it really wasn't tempting...