The Scroop's European Holiday: Day 25 Lucerne

Today starts with us packing again but it’s a bit easier this time because we haven’t used as much stuff. The hotel room we have been staying in is very small, a lot smaller than the apartments. It was basically one room with a bathroom. The bedding arrangements were 4 single beds with Kris and mine pushed together to form a double, Tyler’s was next to Kris’s side and Mia’s was at the end of us, very, very cosy!!! We have to be at the train station to leave for Zermatt at 12 o’clock so we head down for breaky. After breaky we leave our stuff at the hotel and go and check out Lucerne’s Musegg Wall and its Towers. This is an old wall built in 1386 to protect the city. We climb up inside a couple of the towers and the views over the city are impressive as the wall and the towers sit high up on the hill at the back of Lucerne. After that we wander around the cobble stone streets until it’s time to go and get our luggage and get back on the train. This train ride consists of 3 legs, one from Lucerne to Bern, then we get off and get the Bern to Visp train and then it’s Visp to Zermatt. Switzerland so far has been our favourite destination and we have only been here 3 days. The only complaints I have with Switzerland is 1. You can’t reserve seats on trains, why, buggered if I know, seems a stupid system to me especially when the doors of the trains open for everyone to get on and it resembles the WWE and 2. everything is so expensive, you have to hand over your life savings for a ham and cheese baguette!!! Anyway, we get on the train and the first leg is pain free until we have to change trains. We have 7 minutes to get off, battle the slow people, get around to the train at the next platform (wherever that is) and find a carriage with some seats available. We get off and I turn into Usain Bolt at the start of his 100m run, except with a suitcase, backpack, computer bag and a kid hanging off me and I’m running with the occasional glance back for Kris. I hit a wall of pensioners who look like they’re coming back from a lawn bowls convention and it looks like it’s curtains for us until this nuggety surfy looking chic, who obviously is catching the same train as us just starts ramming people with an occasional "‘scuse me" thrown in. She’s leaving this vortex behind her that we file into and we get to our train just on time. We find the few remaining spare seats and sit down and we are all sucking up the big ones. That was a tough run. The next stop isn’t as adventurous as this station is only a small one not like the station at Bern so it’s easy to find where we are going. We get on and head to Zermatt. The train ride is a beaut and we get to Zermatt upbeat. Our hotel is only 200m up the main road (that’s true this time) so it’s a short walk. We checked the net before arriving and the room they said we were getting looked impressive but you never know what you’re going to get until you get there. We get shown to our room and this thing is the penthouse suite. This is the best room in the hotel (check out the link) with a balcony onto the main street, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and the Pièce de résistance, a magnificent view of the Matterhorn from all over the room. We have motorised windows on the gable roof above our bed and in the bathroom that open up and the Matterhorn is right there, you can just about touch it and you can even look at it while having a shower. We are stoked, this is AWESOME!!! We throw our stuff in and head straight down to the main street where all the shops are and have a look around for a while before getting dinner and a couple of drinks in the hotel bar and hitting the sack. Tomorrow is gonna be a big one.