Rail Strike!

This date will live in my memory, probably until I'm old and decrepit. In the night, a ding on my phone woke me about 2 a.m. with a message saying there is a one-day train strike in Italy. That snapped all sleep out of my body. Today was supposed to be our train from Zurich to Rome. 

For the next several hours we tried to figure out what it means for us. We first checked if it affected our two trains: 1) Zurich to Milano and 2) Milano to Rome. It took a bit to figure it out, but the answer: yes to both. Then we had to figure our options. That was the messy part. Numerous choices, none great. Final decision: we bought a flight from Zurich to Rome.

Suddenly we had time in Zurich -- more time than we wanted, to be honest. We're a few days too early for the Anabaptism at 500 celebration. However, we went to the Limmat River spot (with a plaque) commemorating the deaths of Felixanz and other Anabaptism in the early years of the Radical Reformation. We visited the Fraumünster Church and the Grossmünster Church.

I can't wait to crash at our hotel in Rome, exhausted after a nearly sleepless night. But hey! The sky was blue this afternoon, the first time in 3 or 4 days.

(Marc Chagall windows in the Fraumünster Church. We got to see Chagall art twice!)


(Felix Mainz plaque along the Limmat River. With the Grossmünster Church in the background.)

(A door on the Grossmünster Church).

(Along the Limmat, near the spot where Manz and others were drowned.)

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