Europe 2013-Day 14

September 5th – Zurich, Konstanz, Zurich

Weather – sunny and hot.

Margaret-Ann and John took an early morning (8:37) train from Zurich and met Sepp and two of his younger sisters, Christina and Edith (all three, John’s cousins) at 9:54 in Konstanz, Germany -- on the west shore of the Bodensee (Lake Constance). It was a bit of a reunion for Margaret-Ann and John, since just a few weeks earlier Christina and Edith had visited them in Brampton – see the August posting on this blog of “German Visitors – 2013”.

The group spent the rest of the morning walking through the very picturesque old town area with Sepp pointing out many interesting details – his son, Matthias, had spent four years at the University here and Sepp and his wife, Sigrid, have and continue to come here often from Höfen, their home in the Black Forest. Of particular note were the Kaiserbrunnen (Imperial Fountain), the Schnetztor gateway, the Rheintor (Rhine Gateway) and Pulverturm (Powder Tower), and the saucy Imperia harbour statue by Peter Lenk.

For lunch they dined on the patio of a restaurant overlooking the harbour, after which Sepp drove the group back to the Plattenhof Hotel in Zurich (Cristina, Edith, and Sepp checked into the same hotel).

After a short rest the group left the hotel and strolled through the old town area on the east side of the Limmat River before returning for a late dinner on the patio of the Italian Restaurant Sento (attached to the Plattenhof Hotel) -- a wonderful end to a wonderful day.

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