Zurich; Monday, 18 April, 2022

Although it was also a public holiday in Switzerland far fewer people appeared to have stayed the previous night at the hotel, so Breakfast was less of a scrum than it had been the previous morning.

After breakfast and checking out I headed out to the Hauptbahnhof and caught a train down the lake to the town of Rapperswil.

Located at the bottom of the lake, where a bridge separates the Zürichsee from the Obersee, Rapperswil is a pleasant town with an interesting looking castle perched on a low hill above the harbour, but I didn’t have time to visit today as I needed to get to the harbour to pick up the boat.

Rapperswil is also the end point of the hourly ferry service that runs down the length of Lake Zurich from the centre of Zurich. Making several stops along the way at various lakeside towns in a two hour journey.

I arrived at the quay just in time as shortly after I arrived a large number of people turned up also for the service and if I’d been behind them I wouldn’t have got as good a seat as I did right at the front of the boat where I was able to get some amazing views as we slowly sailed up the lake.

Just over two hours later we finally pulled into the quay at the top of the lake in central Zurich. From there I had a bit of a wander around the city centre before it was time to head back to the hotel, grab m luggage and make my way to the airport and my journey home.