Mountain Climbing

We live in a student house up the hill from the universities (University of Zurich for me, ETH--which is German for the Federal Technical Academy, meaning engineering school--for Martin), which themselves are up the hill from the city center. In fact, we are so much up the hill that the area of Zurich in which we live is called Zurichberg (berg=mountain). All of that means two things: we have great views...

You can see Lake Zurich!

...and we spend a lot of time walking up hills and climbing stairs.

 Starting point: UZH. Please bear in mind that we're already halfway up the hill.

  Stairs part one! Headed up to the main entrance of the University.

 Once we've walked up a big hill, we can take a little shortcut through stairs part two!

 A little bit more hill (with pretty flowers), and you can see our final climb. Hi Martin! Isn't that green hillside so pretty?

No. It is meant to be accomplished, not looked at. See the church at the top? That's where we're going.

First up: five or six flights of these delightfully varied steps. Excellent training for the "oops! That stair was twice the size of the last one" muscles. Quite scenic though, right?

Regular stairs! So nice and consistent. I think the air is getting thinner.

 The church! Good, I'm starting to feel a little religious about my couch.

 But first: one. last. flight.

And we're home! We live literally across the street from the church. On the second floor, but I'll deal with that when we get there. The kitchen is downstairs...

Love Katie