<Zurich is a boring city for tourists> who are so blase and jaded and probably never got off Bahnhofstrasse - there are loads of nice things about Zurich is one would only take the time to ferret them out!

but yes if you just get out of the train station and look around you may call Zurich boring. Boring is in the mind of the beholder. To me Zurich is one of the nicest and most interesting Swiss cities - one with a cosmopolitan make up - walk along the lake on a nice weekend day and you'll see a panoply of various ethnic groups milling around.

Zurich is wonderful when I'm on business. It has everything I need a large metropolitan city to offer.

But on vacation, I pick Lucerne, Montreaux or (my personal favorite) Gstaad. Not really any old churches to find in Gstaad, but the food and apres ski are wonderful!

If I had to chose a limited number of stops in Switzerland I also would not chose Zurich - if landing I would go straight to Lucerne for the night or the night before take off but Zurich is still a nice nice city - just that there are nicer places for the average novice tourist to dwell in than it - you come to Switzerland not for big cities but for pastoral scenes and the Alps.

<i>but for pastoral scenes and the Alps.</i>

Which may turn out to be a big disappointment if the November weather is rainy.

And rains can set in any time of year - in summer it is not unusual to have days and days of rain in the Alps but granted November can be especially dreary.