Before I flew, I texted Danielle I was going to Swiss and we arranged to meet up at Lugano - the city she's staying at but I didnn't have a free day until Zurich, so I had to ditch Weiling and my mum to meet her. After making sure they checked in to the hotel at Zurich and everything is fine, I took a 2 hour train ride to Lugano to meet Danielle!
Lugano
So excited to meet a friend finally! We met in Shanghai and Swiss but never in SG lol. Anyway she brought me to lunch at an Italian place with nice view and we walked around the city for a while.
It's an Italian city so we grabbed some gelato and ate beside the lake. It was really like summer already. The city is pretty small, nothing much to do so she brought me supermarketing, I bought 2 bottles of Bianco De Merlot wines, white wine made with Merlot grapes - their specialty and then headed back to Zurich. Nothing much there except the wine.
Dinner at hotel and I opened one of the wine and it was amazing! My new favourite white wine now!
Zurich
We stayed at Ibis which had a weird room layout - the toilet was in a windowless room and it's open shower. That's why Weiling rebooked a room on her own. The breakfast spread was the best in this trip, they had pancakes, sausages, ham, cheese, yogurt etc. We decided to go to Rhine fall on spot, so 1 hour trip later we were there. There's nothing much to see haha so after 20mins we went back to Zurich, then to the Lindt House of Chocolate.
We missed lunch again so we had salad at their cafe and started the chocolate tour. It was immersive and amazing, and at the end of the tour - free flow Lindor chcoolate. We took so many we got back more than the price of the tickets. But we did more buy at the Lindt shop.
Back to the hotel, did our ART test opposite the hotel, and tram to the shopping street. We shopped around, Weiling bought Bally belt and looking for a cuckoo clock to buy home, and we chanced upon this really nice farm-to-table restaurant at the old town and sat at the outdoors for dinner. The dinner was so good we decided to go again the next day haha.
The next day it was the swatch-omega launch so we checked that out. The queue was crazy so we gave up, went to a flea market, lunched, shopped for shoes, had coffee at starbucks because we were so tired. Then a few guys came in with the swatch paper bag and Weiling asked them to show us lol. They were so friendly and they said they queued for 6 hours hahah. It's crazy. We went to see the queue but everything was sold out, went to the Rituals store and I bought some candles and shower gel - really nice, I'm a fan of Rituals now. After that the 2 of them bought Longchamp bags haha.
Dinner back at the Restaurant August - really one of the best meals we had in Swiss. Their tagliatelle and pork dishes were to die for. Then supermarketing for some last minute things - I bought more wine and hot chocolate to bring back home. 
I finished a bottle of wine at night haha. The next morning after breakfast, straight to the airport and there was a long queue coz our flight was quite full. A mad rush to the tax refund counter, they went to the gates first while I bought my bottle of gin, and I didn't know there was a mad queue at the customs. I was already gonna be late for my flight at 11.45am and I was still queuing at the customs. And I still had to take a light train to the gate urgh.
In the end I ran to the gate and was one of the last to board at 11.50am haha. I wasn't the last because they were still waiting for a passenger in wheelchair who went to the wrong gate. Phew.
The flight was better because it was daytime in Swiss and I finished a few movies, had cup noodles and 2 Singapore Slings. Arrived in the morning at 7am, cabbed home and went straight to bed for a quick nap.
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