The first weekend of May, I met my travel partner in crime Sarah in Zürich, Switzerland for a 3 day weekend. Zürich is the largest city in Switzerland. Zürich is primarily German-speaking. Zürich has two dots over the U and as you will see I tried really hard to make sure I used it every time I typed "Zürich" in this post. Switzerland has four official languages (and none of them are "Swiss"). The languages are German, French, Italian and Romansh. In Zürich and other parts of Switzerland, they actually speak a dialect of German called Swiss German but write in Standard German (High German). Since all I know is "Guten Tag", thankfully English is widely spoken as well. They use the Swiss Franc (CHF) and not the Euro, which I managed to avoid until my last few hours in Zürich when I rented a bike and needed to put down a 20CHF cash deposit. And the smallest denomination the ATM would give me was 50CHF. I tried to spend the cash with what little time I had left but still went home with some of it. Our first day in Zürich was a clear, mild day. We arrived early Friday morning and signed up for a city tour with the front desk of our hotel when we checked in. Normally I like to take the hop on hop off buses in new cities, but this is one of the few cities I've been to that doesn't have this type of bus. But this 4 hour city tour and guide via Best of Switzerland is well worth the money. The tour takes you through the Old Town, and then down through the affluent Gold Continue Reading