Made it to Zurich

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We drove from Montesson to Zurich last Saturday. If you read the Brussels post a couple weeks ago you might have got the impression we learned our lesson about heading out on road trips without proper maps, planning and phone numbers. Chiz definitely took those lessons away with her and tasked me with figuring out the route, checking weather conditions, and actually driving. Either my laziness or my manliness made me believe what we experienced before was only a one time event so the extent of my exhaustive research was to, once again, head to mappy.com and type in the addresses.

Then she came home from work on Thursday night and reported the car broke down. Another pain, but we are growing accustomed to nothing going as planned so we discussed all the plane, train, and automobile options (bearing in mind we had boxes of stuff and Tolsty to deal with). She was able to get a rental car figured out through work on Friday afternoon but it turned out to be a manual transmission and I’m less than impressive with those. This is now our third car if you are keeping track. It was mutually decided without discussion the added stress of Chiz driving was probably less than the stress of me stalling on some hill, grinding gears, and generally looking like fools.

We get to the end of the apartment driveway on Saturday morning at 10:00 and she asks me which direction to turn. I say I don’t know and I thought she knew where the freeway was. This didn’t go over well at all and I was subjected to a lecture about how I have nothing to do all day yet I still can’t find time to do the simple things she asks of me. I can only agree that I am terrible and we have to head to the grocery store to finally buy a map of the Paris suburbs our last day in town. We never did actually get lost but there was tons of snow just like she was worried about and I again was the rightful bad guy for not having researched it. The snow and traffic turned our 6 hour trip into a 10 hour crawl but we were rewarded with a sweet apartment on our arrival.

Click to continue reading this post if you want to see pictures of the temporary place.

All this can be yours for only $3400 USD a month.

I might spend a little bit of time on these.

That is a stove, oven, microwave, and a dishwasher. I can say for certain the microwave works.

A guest room and more mirrors. There are a lot of mirrors in this place.

Kind of a fill in the blank picture. That is a big tub there and through those doors is a deck.

Squishy in his native habitat.

View from the front deck. That little tower barely visible on the hill up there is Uetliberg where we went last time (Top of Zurich).