1. Wake up.
2. Get on a boat for 45 minutes to cross the Canal to get to the station.
3. Get on a train for 3 hours. Sit opposite another wealthy American couple. Avoid any conversation with them until the final five minutes where we both act suitably friendly and exchange travel itineraries and thoughts on Italy.
4. Get off train in Milan. Hang around for next train for 45 minutes. Get on next train to Zurich.
5. Sit on train for next 4 hours. Sit opposite young Chicago couple. Talk quite a lot to them. Girl is serious and hardly cracks a giggle. Guy is like a happy puppy, pumped for his first overseas trip. He keeps trying to take photos from the train window but times them wrong and they’re always obstructed by a tree, a house or a powerline. Train is 40 minutes late into Zurich. Greeted by Miss Poised Procurer and enjoy a hearty Greek banquet in the heart of Switzerland.
6. Thunder strikes and we run home in the rain. Drenched. The weather is 10 degrees colder in Switzerland than it is in Italy. A welcome change.
7. And, now is now.
[Beautiful scenery on the way to Zurich:]
[Drenched after dinner and Man from Mars stinks like a muggy creek:]
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