However, Hong Tao walked around the yard twice with the 60-liter mountaineering bag on his back, and then began to negotiate the conditions with Pan, and upgraded the poor tour to a higher level with a dead face, at least in terms of transportation, there must not be too much walking!

This is really not that Hong Tao's body is too cowardly, a bottle of big cola is 2 liters, 60 liters is 30 bottles of big coke, a whole 5 boxes. A liter of water is almost a kilogram of weight, 60 liters is 60 kilograms, even if the specific gravity of clothes, shoes, tents, and sundries is relatively light, even if it is a third, there are still 20 kilograms. It's no problem to walk a few hundred meters, but if you really walk a long road with 20 kilograms and 40 kilograms of things on your back, Hong Tao really can't stand it.

From this point of view, the physical fitness of the Chinese people is generally weak, and the national fitness is nonsense, and the whole people look at the money about the same. Needless to say, it is not difficult for adult men in Europe and the United States, like a rich girl like Pan, to walk a few kilometers with a 60-liter hiking bag on their backs. In our country, it is estimated that 80% of young and middle-aged men have to lie on their stomachs, and 99% of women can't even carry their backs.

Death crimes can be avoided, but living crimes cannot be escaped! Pan was not afraid of trouble and spending money, and ran to buy three 40-liter mountaineering bags for Hong Tao and Wang Jian.

Here again, the German high-speed rail has a very high punctuality rate, and the error has to be calculated in minutes or even seconds. Take the ICE done this time as an example, the ticket says that the train will depart at 10:01 in the morning, and the train will depart without a minute, and the train will arrive at the station at 6:00 in the afternoon, and the moment the train stops on the Zurich platform is 6:00 minutes, and the journey of more than 800 kilometers can be done to this extent, and Hong Tao can not be more satisfied.

Switzerland is not a member of the European Union, which is related to its policy of neutrality, and according to its constitution, it cannot join any political-military organizations, except for the United Nations, but it has joined the Schengen Agreement, and it is said that the referendum did not go well. The supporters won by a very narrow margin.

However, Switzerland's accession to the Schengen Agreement is still very short, and the official time of accession is May 2007, almost a month before Hong Tao came to Europe, so when crossing the German-Swiss border, there are still police officers from both countries who get on the bus to check the passenger's documents, but they are not so strict, and most of them are just a glance.

The first thing you need to do when you get off the train is to go to the bank window in the station to exchange Swiss francs and then buy a Swiss National Rail pass. This pass is called the Swissyouthpass, which is the equivalent of the Eurail Pass. You can travel on trains, ships and buses of the Swiss State Railways for an agreed period of time, and there are also discounts for private railways.

Hong Tao they bought a 4-day pass, the cost is 198 francs, they plan to stay in Switzerland for about 4 days, with this pass, basically a ticket in hand, the whole of Switzerland I can go state.

Hong Tao, who had just arrived in Switzerland, had the first feeling that the Swiss were too earthy, except for the aunt at the bank window who could speak a few words of English that sounded like French, and almost everyone spoke German or French. But Pan promptly corrected his misunderstanding. In fact, she said, most of the Swiss people speak English, but they just don't want to say it, and in Chinese it means pretending to be grandchildren.

Switzerland is a multilingual country with 26 cantons. Seventeen of the states speak German, but this German is not quite the same as German and is called High German. As for the difference, Hong Tao couldn't hear it, anyway, even a person like him who didn't know German could hear that the German spoken by the Germans and the German spoken by the Swiss were two different things.

The cantons of Geneva, Jura, Neuchâtel and Vaud, in western Switzerland, are French-speaking states. It's basically French in France, and there's not much difference.

The canton of Tizino is an Italian-speaking region, and Italian is also spoken in the four valleys of the southern canton of Graubünden. In addition, there is a local dialect called Romance spoken in the canton of Graubin.

Due to the fact that the German-speaking region has a well-developed economy. Therefore, most of the residents of the French, Italian and Romance speaking regions speak German, and generally people who come to Switzerland can travel to all parts of Switzerland as long as they pass the German language.

Although it sounds very chaotic, for a person like Hong Tao who comes from a big country, he dares to speak chaos in 4 languages? Lao Tzu went out of the urban area of Beijing, and when he first arrived in Yanqing, he couldn't understand the locals, and it still sounds hard to go to Miyun again, not to mention that you went to Tangshan and Leting in Hebei, which really responded to that sentence: ten miles of different sounds, and a hundred miles of different customs.

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland, but it has a population of just over 400,000 and is an international financial center. It is located at the northern end of Lake Zurich, and the railway station is actually built with the international airport, this is the first time Hong Tao has seen such a design, the Swiss can really save space!

The first and most impressive look when I left the station was the big clock, which said omega and a big Ω, as if to remind Hong Tao that you have now arrived in the clock kingdom, should you contribute your strength!

Zurich Terminus (a collective term for train stations and airports) is almost right in the city, where there are plenty of rail and bus connections to the city centre. On the train, Pan booked a place to stay, a backpacker hotel called Beaver, located on the east bank of the Limmat River.

Hong Tao and Wang Jian are a double room, on the 3rd floor, and Pan is a single room, on the 2nd floor. There is neither a shower nor a toilet in the double room, and it is not as good as the small hostel next to the train station in our country, but the price is quite cheap, 98 francs per day, excluding breakfast. Pan's room was a little more premium, with a toilet and shower, and it cost 90 francs, and breakfast was not included.

Although the price is cheap, but the health condition in the room is not bad, at least the bed sheets, sheets, pillowcases are changed and washed every day, and the summer here is not hot, there is no need for air conditioning, Hong Tao and Wang Jian agreed that it is acceptable. The most important thing is that they have a view of the Limmat River outside their window, which can almost be regarded as a sea view house, and the scenery is unique here.

After tossing the accommodation, it was almost 7 o'clock in the evening, and it was time to find a place to feed the stomach. Since it is a poor tour, you can't go to those big restaurants and hotels to eat, although everyone is not bad for a few dollars, but it has been agreed in advance, in addition to buying tourist souvenirs, food, accommodation and travel are strictly required according to the minimum standards!

Coming out of the Beaver Hotel, walk north along the road to Zurich Terminus, there is a street called Niederdorf, which is a riverside street, with the Limmat River on the left and a shop next to each other on the right.

Not only can you feast your eyes, but you can also fill your stomach, there are many bierhalle on the side of the road, which should be called a beer hall, which offers a local Swiss dish called Rosti, which is baked potato strips with tenderloin and sausage, plus a large glass of beer, only 17 francs, not unpalatable and mainly cheap.

There is also a kind of tavern called a wine hall, this one is not entered, the food and drink in it are quite expensive, at least for those who travel on a budget, they must not be able to afford it.

"It's a high-end restaurant opposite, if you can't get used to this, we can go to the opposite side to eat, but tomorrow's backpack will have to be carried all the way!" The three of them sat at a table by the river, eating their own plate while admiring the scenery on both sides of the Limmat River. Pan saw Hong Tao staring at the other side of the river, thinking that he was not used to eating this kind of food, so he planned to open the net.

"It's delicious, this potato is very fragrant, I didn't look at those high-end restaurants, there were two blondes just now, those legs are so long!" Hong Tao refused to accept this mercy.

"Well, we've been eating this every day for the past few days, it's delicious and cheap." Pan Zhilu said that Hong Tao was deliberately angry with her, but he was not angry, and wiped the last bit of vegetable soup on the plate into his mouth with his fingers.

"I said can you not mess with her, you can suffer if you suffer, you have to pull me along, can you still pull after eating this thing!" As soon as Wang Jian heard Pan's cruel words, he was anxious at first, he had a stomach full of baked potatoes and tenderloin, and it was okay to eat one meal, and he couldn't stand eating us herbivores every day!

After dinner, it was already completely dark, and the three of them began to scatter along Niederdorfstrasse, then turned to the station square, and then entered the Bahnhofstrasse on the other side of the river, and visited the watch shops, gem shops, and Swiss Army knife shops. (To be continued......)