When we checked in last night we were given a Chur Guest card – for free!  You don’t get much here for free!

This morning we caught the bus (Public transport is free with our Chur Guest Card) to the Altstadt (Old Town).  We found a coffee shop and we each chose a pastry for breakfast. They looked delicious!  We sat down and I took a lovely bite of my pastry – which turned out to be a roll. It looked far fancier, but it was just a roll!  Oh well, as most of you probably know I enjoy eating dry bread and rolls, so my breakfast was a dry roll!  William’s pastry was very tasty.

We walked around the old town looking at all the buildings – so beautiful.  The oldest church and cathedral weren’t open so we could not go in.  The whole town is pristinely clean – there are flowers on the verges and everything is well kept – very different to Italy.

We walked across from the old town to where the cable car takes you to the top of one of the surrounding mountains.  With our Chur Guest Pass we could get 50% off so we decided to go up.  The ride is in 2 different cables cars.  The first one is a big car that takes you to the first station, where all the mountain bikers start their trails, so we had 15 of us and 12 bicycles in our cable car.  From this station we went up the rest of the mountain in a little cable car – and we climbed and climbed and climbed – for about 20 minutes.  It was a beautiful, clear morning, so visibility was great.  The views were incredible, and the little car didn’t wobble too much!

When we walked outside the cable car station at the top there were patches of snow.  I was in my element!  We carried on walking and then we could some snowy slopes, so I (with William following me like a good husband) was off.  What I didn’t take into account was that the snow is melting so everything was muddy, but we got to the bottom of the slope and stood in the snow.  Then we started walking back to the road and William said “be careful, it is slippery” and boof down I went into the slushy squidgy mud on my bum!  I need not tell you that I was wearing very light coloured pants, so you can guess what I looked like!  Oh well!

What amazed us was how hot it was up there -William was in shorts – yes in the snow – and we were in short sleeves and cooking!  It was about 26 degrees.  It was rather strange.  We had a light lunch at the restaurant at the top of the mountain and then headed down again.  We are so glad that we went up.

We then walked back to our hotel and went to a supermarket – I would say that food there was about 20% more than we pay at home, but I know that converting is not always accurate as you need to take salaries etc into account.  We bought some Swiss Chocolate – we had to as we are in Switzerland after all!

We spent the afternoon putting our feet up and recharging our batteries.

Tonight we had the most expensive KFC we have ever eaten!  Takeaways are very pricey here!

We leave for Zurich and then Paris tomorrow morning.