Wake up to a warm day in Zurich, and find a wifi cafe with croissant, espresso and amazing homemade limonade with basil and mint, before walking along the Limmat to the last bridge.

WikiVoyage  is every useful in identifying the places we are seeing. So far there has been limited English labelling of significant buildings so we are grateful for the wiki articles on key cities. The churches (and their clocks) we photograph turn out to be:

• Grossmünster – construction of the present structure of which happened around 1100-1220, and features a huge Heinrich Bullinger on its outer wall.

• Fraumünster – named not for Our Lady but because it is built on the remains of a former abbey for aristocratical women founded in 853. Now a Swiss Reformed Church.

After lunch it is time for our 4 hour TGV experience to Paris Gare de Lyon via Basel and Dijon, arriving in Paris with the late afternoon rush. It is great to have expert guidance on Le Metro to get us to a station near Bercy le Quartier.

A picnic of baguette, charcuterie, cheese and a fine drop of premier cru outside in the garden leading into a very stormy and disturbed night.

Back home it is a public holiday and Queen’s birthday honours and thanks are due to those responsible for the compilation of music honours. Still waiting for the equivalent education and library related lists.

Today, as well as a public holiday, we missed the end of the ABC Classic 100  Baroque countdown.