Zurich, very pretty town

This picture is worth clicking to enlarge . . .

Legende Tagliatelle

Pained buildings

There were quite a few buildings in town. This one shows the Fritschi family, who ran this restaurant, in scary incarnations.

More Love sign

Unfortunately, by the time I got done with the boat tour at 4pm, the stores were closed (!). I had a couple hours, so I walked around and looked at the sites recommended in the walking tour in Rick Steve's guidebook. Then I looked in the shop windows. Some of interesting, rather unique shops down little side streets.

View from boat

I took the 90 minute boat tour of Lake Luzerne. I won't post all of the photos, but some were pretty gorgeous.

Lion Monument - Luzern

Enlarge to see the Lions' tears. He represents Switzerland and is carved out of natural rock in memory of the heroic deaths of the Swiss mercenaries at the Tuileries in 1792. They went to aid of France and were slaughtered by the enemy. The lion is slowly dying, due to the broken sword embedded in his side. Mark Twain described the Lion of Lucerne as the saddest and most moving piece of rock in the world.

April - Utrecht Cake with Dutch writing

We went here back in April, but Heidi just sent the photo to me. This shop was full of beautiful cakes, but we only got a photo of the one with writing. There were others with polka dots, stripes, swirls, flowers. There were lots of spectacular creations there--I wish we had a snapshot with all of those.

Enlarge to see the this cake and the one in the background better.