Zurich is at the outfall of Lake Zurich, on the Limmat river. Looking upriver from the Rathausbrücke (Townhall Bridge) towards the lake here, you see the twin towers of the Grossmünster, which was the birthplace of Swiss Reformation: it was where Huldrych Zwingli preached. Like all Calvinist churches, it has a rather austere interior with all Catholic ornaments removed. The top part of the towers is neo-Gothic. The river-front building in front is the Haus zum Rüden, a guildhall.

View across the Limmat at the Schipfe, the old craftsman quarter on the western shore

View back at the eastern shore from an arcade in the Schipfe

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

Lucerne is at the outfall of Lake Lucerne, on the Reuss river. Its most famed sight is the Kapellbrücke, a covered wood bridge. The baroque church in the background is the Jesuitenkirche (Jesuit Church), which is quite beautiful inside.

The bridge was built in 1365, but most of it had to be rebuilt after a fire in 1993. The old bridge had paintings between the roof beams along its entire length, a number of those could be rescued before the flames but those lost weren't replaced.

A bit further, there is a weir on the Reuss, and a second covered wooden bridge, the Spreuerbrücke. The current construction dates to 1566 and has paintings between the roof beams, too.

Looking upriver from the rail bridge (with both the Spreuerbrücke and the Jesuitenkirche in the distance), there is the second most famous landmark, the Museggmauer: a 600-year-old section of the old city wall with nine bastions that each have a unique design.

Earlier on Lake Lucerne, a gull settled on a pole for mooring ships.

The German name of Lake Lucerne is much more poetic: Vierwaldstättersee (Lake of Four Forest Cities). The view over it was also poetic when the clouds began to lift. (I actually waited for that bird to enter the picture.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

was unrepentant vs. his former victims ("arguing" that most of them were militant leftists just as much out for a fight as he was)

I once knew a member of the West Ham hooligan group, the Inter City Firm, who used to use exactly the same justification for the mayhem he created. This was the most obvious bollocks that it was actually insulting to hear him say it and I took great pleasure in pointing that out. He'd just grin at me in a "why are you talking cos I'm not listening" manner

keep to the Fen Causeway