So, today being my day of rest from heavy exercise, I planned to go for a walk. Preferably in the woods behind our apartment and no further than 4 miles. So Martin lines up an 8-mile walk about an hour away and off we go. But we walk so much here that we barely feel an 8-mile walk anymore so it wasn't too big of a deal. I made sure to complain a good amount though.
It was a gorgeous afternoon, around 70 with sunny skies. The walk was mostly flat (except the bit with 224 stairs, yes I counted) and had great views of the Zürichsee. And it had a little bit of everything - sections through heavily forested areas, sections through residential neighborhoods where all the extremely rich people who have amazing views live, and sections through fields of corn and wheat. The beauty of the walk was that it was all well-marked with wide well-cared-for paths. There are so many miles of these hiking trails around Zürich I doubt we'll ever get to them all.
So here are the pictures:
A little pond with some ducks:
A little waterfall we wandered by:
The views from our lunch spot:
Martin unwrapping our sandwiches from the Pretzel King for our lunch. Because of course we made sure to pass by a Pretzel King on our way to start our walk so we could stock up on pretzel bread sandwiches.
Some fields of corn and wheat:
Martin made a friend. This is one of the friendliest cats we've seen here - she came running out of the field to greet us with her tail in the air and then just threw herself onto the ground in front of us and let us pet her.
And now I'm ready for a nap!
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