08h00 SWITZERLAND IS GORGEOUS
I wish this was a regular train so I could sit up and look out the window and all around.
breakfast - 2 croissants and OJ
some mountains are green and covered with trees, some are unbelievably huge and rocky and snowy up top.
Zurich - free bike rentals @ platform 18 @ the train station! (w/deposit) (later) - only in summer....
looking around - cross river, turn right. or stay on this side, walk south to St Peterskirche, then cross and explore
09h35 Zurich
so far I love it. I don't want to leave. maybe I won't.
The are getting ready for some sort of parade or demonstration here alond the river. maybe it's the Euromayday celebration I saw advertised in Venice?
I bet this is a fun day in Berlin.
Anyway, here, loud music, flags, and banners,
AND FINALLY THE SUN IS OUT
I wish there were more mountains around!!
ZURICH -> PARIS
11h34-15h16
12h02-18h46
13h32-20h21
14h04-20h57
14h32-21h31
15h02-21h41
15h06-21h41
and many more I'm sure.
some oi playing, some rap playing, this is very strange.
plus, my book says trains at
16h18-22h11
17h02-23h42
(23h06-06h47 - overnight - bad idée)
11h55
Lake Zurich
looking southish towards some small mountains - behind them bigger mountains -- behind those, enormous, snowy mountains.
I should probably definitely be back in Paris by now. I don't want to go back / but I do, as previously discussed.
I want to stay ere, or anywhere, or keep moving around.
(yeah, and everything is in German, and swiss francs, so I can't really talk to anyone, or buy anything - the latter of which is for sure probably for the better)
I don't have any idea of the conversion of SFR -> Euros or USD, so I have no cncept of how much things cost here, which I am always curious about. pretty expensive, I imagine.
Zurich 13h34 -> Basel SBB 14h38 (Inter-regio)
Basel SBB 14h45 -> Mulhouse-Ville 15h22 (Regio-express)
Mulhouse-Ville 16h03 -> Paris Est (TGV)
total: 7h6m
13h24
On the train: Zurich - Basel
I wonder how far I'll get before I realize that I can't make it back to paris tonight for some reason?
it will be a relief to not have to carry this dumb backpack with me everywhere
I don't know which side of the train will be prettier - right or left (northish or southish)
I'm on the right, for now.
13h55
Lenzburg
switched to the other side. The sun shines in this way, anyway.
14h47
on the train from Basel to Mulhouse. so far, so good
note to self: learn about Basel
it's hot on this train
looks like Basel has a zoo
some cool graffiti
some interesting urban decay?
I am the only on in this train car.
...what's happening? supposed to get off? end of the line? ...hm. not what I had anticipated based on ------
??h??
BACK IN FRANCE!
only 7 1/2 more hours until Paris....
It's flat here, mostly kind of ugly, but in a charming kind of way. (Sierentz)
turned on my phone and I had a message from F -- he was in class, wondering where I was ....
I thought that class was canceled! Damn. Damn.
Well I couldn't have made it anyway, that train from Benice was my last chance to make it to Paris on time.
16h20
this is amazing in a whole new way. farms on the left, gently hilly terrain; small villages to the right, with not-too-high mountains
Tiny old chapel, stout and solid.
Old post-and-beam buildings falling apart.
Cows, tractors, a million shades of green
ugly houses, beautiful ones, small ponds, a canal
This -- the train!
I wonder what kind of vitesse we're traveling at, and if it's grand or not. it's a Corail train. Probably not. In fact, I'm almost sure. Almost. added later: Yeah, now I'm sure
Dirt roads, people on bikes, fishing..
curvy, narrow 2-lane paved country roads
20h
Are we there yet? I have been uncomfortable the whole time.
40 minutes - can't wait
21h
weird to be back in Paris. it feels so distant but so familiar. the sounds and smells of the metro, the way everything works.. weird. I got so used to it here. now I've gotten used to being places that are totally new to me.
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