Ed In Europe - Part 6

"Switzerland: Light and Dark"

After breakfast in the Loft of our hotel in Andermaat ---

--We boarded a Narrow Gauge Train for an amazing ride across the Swiss Alps along a Route the U.N. calls a "World Heritage Site."

 And for the next couple hours, we came to (literally) see why...

...even the farm livestock seemed especially scenic...

When we left the train, we bussed up to an Alpine Coaster.

And what exactly is an Alpine Coaster?  .....Similar to a more familiar roller coaster with some big differences:  1) You're alone in a small roller-car.  2) There are no 'uphill' sections to slow you (it's all down!). Instead,  3) you have a hand-brake to pull (optionally); and  4) It's a lot lo-o-onger!

From the top looking down. Note the blue roller car starting down.

Our Competitour Challenge: a simple race to have the fastest time. 

The winner? ...A woman in our group who later confessed she propped her leg so the brake was always 'off.' Hans and I didn't have the 'cajonas' for that.

Also: Hans ended up hitting his head requiring First Aid...!.

(...Uh... it's a long story... bottom line, he was OK.)

That night, we did a Competitour Challenge, again one-of-a kind. We went out to Dinner in Zurich: a wonderful restaurant operated by the Blind....

  And THIS is what we 'saw' during our 3-course dinner...

No joke or error.  The dining room is intentionally pitch-black dark. (We had to check all our i Phones /watches /etc. before entering,  we were then led inside.) The idea is to experience a meal as those who are blind do. Our servers were blind as well.

Our Challenge was to guess the specific ingredients of what we were eating.  All I know is that the salad had slimy stuff (anchovies?) but the fish was delicious. We guessed salmon, turned out to be Bream, a freshwater fish in Europe

Well, the next day, it was off to Italy...!