Zurich Neighborhood Tour - Living in Switzerland, Morning Swiss Coffee!

good morning hope you're having an amazing day at smart Queens I'm in Zurich Switzerland we're staying at this hotel which is called hotel Zuri and this is one of the the most budget hotel options I could find for three of us for a room with Michel with a baby that's our room right up there on the top floor and I'm just gonna give you a quick neighborhood tour let's walk around Dirk and let's see what's around this morning it's about 7:00 a.m. so we're gonna go have coffee and I'm just gonna show you a neighborhood tour typical neighborhood tour in Zurich let me just quickly tell you about the hotel that we're staying in it's a business budget hotel for Zurich but it's still not cheap we paid how much did we pay even like four three adults one baby so it's still not cheap at all but that was on a spur of a moment trip to to Zurich that was one of the cheapest hotels I could find it's the room is actually very nice very clean very new the location the location is in a local neighborhood area kind of these are kind of like business business blocks and it's not too far away from the old town from the center of Zurich it's a quick you can jump on the trim and you'll be in the center in the old town in about less than 10 minutes so it's not far if you're coming from a big city one of the things that you'll definitely love about Zurich is just how quiet it is it's such a such a nice relaxing peaceful city and it is very pedestrian friendly and very biker friendly as well all right we made it to the railroad tracks from here we're getting into a more a little bit more of a beautiful neighborhood and there are lots of typical little apartments most of the most of the apartments are just three or four stories and they have nice little balconies it's Zurich really is an incredibly beautiful city let's cross over here there is a park just down here that I want to show you oh okay just stumbled into it one thing you'll find that you'll love about Zurich is that there is fresh water drinking water everywhere you go I love that about any city that I visit having fresh water like this it's fantastic all right let's continue yeah it's just such a great city to walk in and if I had a bicycle I would love that - all right made it to the park this is just a typical neighborhood park in Zurich it's a really nice Park all the parks are really nice this one is not close to water but it's still nice there's a volleyball court big expansive grass and just lovely trees [Music] no relaxing at the park this morning young and I are in desperate need of some coffee so we are walking on our way to try to find a coffee shop there's one oh there's one that I kept passing when we were taking the trim that looked really good it was always busy and it's not too far away right in this neighborhood [Music] this is the tram station and this is a this is what a typical tram looks tram station looks like in Zurich it's one of the easiest ways to get around if not if you're not walking or biking one of the easiest ways is to take the tram and you can get from the major neighborhoods into the old city into the downtown of Zurich easily and there's lots and lots of signs I think we can take any train premiere we're just going one stop there's a there's a good cafe or just down the road okay okay remember to press the button that opens the doors sometimes [Music] there's okay there's the catheter in there got a length all right let's get out we that was just one stop I knew it was right here but we're actually in kind of a rush we're leaving Zurich this morning on the train too so we need to we needed to save some time and then the cafe is back this way right okay this is a little bit more of a busier area than where we're staying it's a little bit more commercial there are little shops little restaurants cafes a little more a little more life happening around here and for the tracks I think it's I think you can just cross the tracks it's called cafe lung or cafe lane let's just say here you in the front this will be good double espresso or double macchiato maybe every time that have cast plan on the trim this this coffee shop has just been packed completely packed and there are still some empty seats here but that's because it's only 7 a.m. in the morning but I'm here in a very soon it will be very packed but this is a very typical Zurich Swiss style cafe they have an idea they even have a nice indoors well they definitely have to have nice indoor sections here too because it is extremely cold in the winter but in the summer time most people just love to sit outside on the street people watch drink coffee oh my god and just hang out and enjoy the well it's kind of cool today it's fantastic weather but enjoy the summer weather thank you being ordered a cappuccino I ordered a double espresso macchiato which has been one of my go-to coffees in Europe I love it so much it's yeah that is that is a coffee right there a fantastic coffee and also young and I ordered a little croissant to share oh yeah that is what you want your cousin to feel like it's crusty it's light and airy which bite should I take first the the crispy side which is over here or the gooey side I'll go crispy crispy bite first that's an incredible castle so buttery and flaky like oh this is absolutely fantastic sitting here at just the neighborhood take pickle swiss cafe but a very good swiss cafe the coffee is amazing the little pastries that you can order our amazing and then you just sit here and people watch and this is fantastic we finished with the coffee we had the two cups of coffee we had the croissant our total bill came to twelve Franck and all of a sudden starting to rain so we go then we're gonna take the tram back to our our place [Music] okay and this is our station which is HR we splats that's gonna do it for this little neighborhood zurich morning walk it was a that coffee was the highlight of my morning walk this morning but Zurich is really it was raided I know it's been rated as one of the the highest standards of living in the entire world many many years it really is a beautiful city it's what I love about it is it's so pedestrian friendly we took the tram only because we're Anna Wintour her to rush for time so actually I have to end the video right now and we gotta run to the train station to to catch our train back to Germany and the old town is also beautiful and you can check out my full video about Swiss food and exploring old town on my main channel I'll post a link in the description box and other than that I mean I'm here during the summer so the weather is fantastic the weather is perfect I know in the winter time it's freezing cold I'm kind of scared of the winter time but anyway overall it's it's really a beautiful city to visit or to live in if you have a chance and that is a neighborhood tour of Zurich thank you very much for watching please remember to subscribe for lots more videos like this and tours and travel advice and I'll see you on the next video

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Length: 9min 30sec (570 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 28 2017