On the third day, we ate breakfast at Café Vordergasse—do you see a trend occurring here? There are reasons we ate there every morning. The staff is so friendly, the food incomparably delicious, and the atmosphere is just plain magical.


After breakfast, the trio (Ashton, Stephen and I) drove to Zürich to meet Morten. Then, we drove to Arth to catch a train to the top of Rigi. By then we were all hungry, so we had some bratwurst, goulash, and fries amongst other things at Rigi Pic—of course we had to have some wine with it, too!



Replenished from lunch, we ventured up to the very top of Rigi. The views in the Alps are stunning. It almost didn’t feel real, like I was looking into a painting.


After we absorbed the beauty from the top, we took the train back down to the other side of Rigi, and hopped on a boat from Weggis to Lucerne. The view from the boat on Lake Lucerne was surrounded by intricate architecture with the Alps in the background.


Once we arrived to Lucerne we walked across Kapellbrücke, a covered wooden footbridge that spans the Ruess River. There are intricate paintings within the framework of the roof of the bridge. In 1993, part of the bridge burned down, and you can still see the charred wood where the old bridge ends and the reconstructed part begins.

After spending some time in Lucerne, we took a train back to Arth, dropped Morten off in Zürich, and drove back to Schaffhausen to have another delicious dinner with Caroline and Ladd.


Right before dinner, there was a man out in the street playing beautiful accordion music. I felt like I was on a movie set or in a dream, it was so surreal. The music combined with the surroundings and people on the square made for a magical moment.

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