In Zurich today...

In about a week's time, this is the second European city I am visiting. I have come for some official work to Zurich, Switzerland. This time I was not alone and was accompanied by a colleague of mine. It was his idea to take a train from Frankfurt to Zurich instead of taking a flight. We got our tickets done on the previous evening itself and was at the station at 6:30 in the morning for the ICE train. As ill luck would have it, our train got cancelled in the last moment. The replacement train started almost 30 minutes behind schedule but would drop us only till Basel Bud, a small station on the German-Swiss border. From there, we boarded a local train to Basel SSB, a Swiss city this time. Folks familiar to banks would that this city is famous for the Basel norms which are to the followed by all the banks of the world. From Basel SSB, we took a TGV train to Zurich. By the time we landed in Zurich, it was almost 12:30 pm.

This experience is a reminder that things can go wrong developed nations as well.