Off to museum! To be specific it’s the Swiss Museum of Transport or the Verkehrshaus. It was kinda pricey I thought which is why I was a bit on the fence on this one when planning, and I wasn’t planning to spend a lot of time here so it might not be very worth the price. But we didn’t have too many alternatives so ended up biting the bullet and went for it. 

And can I just say, best decision ever. I almost didn’t want to leave because I really zoomed through much of the displays, and I could have spent more time on each. The exhibit is structured into largely four zones dedicated to each mode of transport - air, sea, land-roads and land-rail, and I budgeted half an hour per zone and busted the limit easily lol. 

Ok so the two hour does come with a bit of buffer i.e. lunch lol so we ended up sacrificing that a bit since we overstayed at the museum a bit, tapao and ate in train instead but in the process we also fulfilled our mission of carrying one of those large pizza boxes on the go lol. Coz we kept seeing ppl do that. 

(Oh and bye Luzern btw) 

And just like that we are down to our last Swiss destination of the trip, and back to civilization in Zurich.  

Agenda of the day is really just shopping tbh, with Zurich being much more metro as compared to the other Swiss towns and less of the lakes/mountain sightseeing, even tho we did make our way to Lake Zurich unintentionally. And I didn’t feel like we have much time in Zurich, so after dropping off our luggage we headed out to Zurich’s main shopping street of Bahnhofstrasse. 

So this being our last stop at Switzerland it’s also time to make a decision about buying a watch. I’ve been talking about this for a while - in fact since the last time I planned a Switzerland trip - but buying a luxury watch at a country famous for this seems like a rite of passage. So throughout the trip we’ve been visiting watch boutiques, and I’ve been swinging wildly multiple times from “f this let’s do this” to “nahhh I really am not going to be wearing this often enough to warrant the price tag”. 

But I guess it takes a bit of push and a nice salesperson who came across as genuine to push me over the edge so yes I did it eventually. Though it also took a walk to Lake Zurich and more sightseeing in the Lindenhof Hill area (and I was so preoccupied that I forgot to go up Lindenhof Hill itself) before heading back to the boutique to seal the deal. I still don’t think it’ll be something I wear even remotely often haha but perhaps just as an investment piece. 

Was there any regrets? Yes, slightly, because after that we realized it’s a few hundred dollars cheaper in Vienna lol but oh well, birthplace hahaha. 

Then off to a celebratory dinner before calling it a day hahah. Because it’s also been a while since we had a proper sit in dinner, and technically our last night proper in Switzerland.