Ride to Zurich

We had a little "oops" today with our train ride.  We were scheduled for the 8:45 train to Zurich and arrived about 30 mins early at the station.  We saw that our train was scheduled to depart from platform 8 and moved to platform 8.  A train was on the platform and Zurich was listed as one of its destinations, so we hopped on.  We knew we did not have assigned seating, so we grabbed seats quickly in case the train filled up (the train to Geneva was oversold and people were sitting on their luggage in the aisles between cars).  When the train pulled out of the station at 8:20, I realized that we were in fact on an earlier train to Zurich.  I looked at our tickets and realized that they were 'open tickets' - any seat any time on that day.  Sigh of relief **

We had only one really rainy day for the whole trip and it was not during our train ride to Zurich.  I was so glad!  The scenery is so beautiful!  Farms all across the valley and hills and mountains in the distance.  I just couldn't take my eyes off of it.

We moved from the southern-French speaking part of Switzerland into the German speaking part during the train ride.  This became most evident in the change of signage on the train that started out by reading "Prochain arret..." (Next stop in French) to "Nachstar halt..." (Next stop in German).