Come to Zurich and breathe the air: It’s fresher than you’ve ever tasted, and laden with the scents of Alpine edelweiss, Swizz wurst and a curious other additive that’s guaranteed to make you feel at home. Yes, this is a town primarily famed for its banking industry, and that has given it a truly rich veneer of clockwork trams and well-groomed townhouses. But there’s also something enduringly charming about this mountainside city; something undeniably Swiss.
Commence seeing the sights with your Zurich tour guide at the banks of the River Limmat, making sure to stop off at all the must sees that linger amidst the Old Town just a short walk away; the iconic Grossmunster with its dual Romanesque towers; the Fraumünster opposite with its millennium-long history. Then why not scour the boutiques of Bahnhofstrasse before settling at one of the outside cafes for a plate of fried Rosti, and people watching as the industrious locals weave their bikes in and out of the cobbles.
And if the mountains on the horizon get just a little too tantalizing, hop on the S-Bahn to Flumserberg, or grab an intercity train to nearby Unterterzen, where the Alpine pastures dominate like a postcard all around.