Thursday Chur Switzerland

Today we would be heading to Chur, Switzerland on the 10 o’clock train so plenty of time for a good breakfast as lunch would be taken on the run. For some reason DB decided to change all our seat reservations last night, so Geoff had to ensure we all knew our new ones. On the train we all found our seats and the rest of the carriage soon filled up with well behaved young people.
We had to change trains at Basel for the second part of our journey, we were now traveling with Swiss Rail and could use our Swiss rail pass, this would give us unlimited travel on trains, buses and ferries as well as some cable cars and funicular railways while in Switzerland, what’s more it was all First class.It even gave free access to museums etc. We had to share the upper floor of a first class coach with another group part of the way. At Chur there was a van waiting to take our bags up to the hotel while we had a short walk into the old town to the Hotel Freieck, a very comfortable 3 star hotel where we would be staying for the next four nights. I was most impressed with our shower with a pebble base.

 

Geoff our tour leader guided us up from the station to the old town and saw us all safely booked into our rooms.

Once settled in we went for a quick look round and decided that we would eat in one of the more modern restaurants that we had passed as we walked up from the station, this was our first experience of Swiss food and drink prices. Most nights a meal for two with two small glasses of wine would come out at over 100 Swiss Francs. A standard glass of wine, which is only 80% the size of a UK small glass was 8 to 10 francs.