Advantages: good food and scenery, not too expensive. Great for budget travel Disadvantages: hill is a little tough to climb, and one can get a little lost easily
...The Ammersee is a nice place to go for a day trip when you'Re bored of the city life or just want to relax with the picture of a nice lake. In Germany, a 'see' is actually a lake. So, the Ammersee is actually a large lake. Many germans come here during the weekend to relax, and to drive their boats, all arranged neatly on the docks, with their families. One can also do windsurfing in the lake. There are various restaurants and towns all around the Ammersee for one to visit, with several ferries providing the hop-on-hop-off service for the tourists and local folk. On the other side of the lake from Utting, I think, lies the famous Kloster Andechs. This is where the merry monks of this cloister have been brewing their famous dark Andech beer for over 500 years. It's a little walk of about 20 minutes or so up a hill. How fast...
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Advantages: Beautiful location, convenient trams Disadvantages: A little expensive
...makes it easy and cheap to explore.
Also, Zurich offers a great number of shops selling the ubiquitous Swiss army knives, in addition to a veritable armoury of swords, combat knives and guns!
The city is only a brief train journey from the airport, and is a convenient point from which to travel further east towards the Engadin basin of Switzerland, and the skiing resorts of Klosters and St Moritz....
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