OK, we do admit that it does take 2¾ hours from Zurich to Geneva on the InterCity. But then, after all, you are travelling from the metropolis in French-speaking Switzerland to the one in the German-speaking part of the country. While you are doing so, you may sit in the dining car and enjoy a wine from the region around Lake Geneva while gazing at the vineyards where the grapes were harvested. And then you have time for the main course – from an international cuisine – before you get to Zurich.
Zurich–Berne: Just under an hour, Berne–Lucerne: The same. From there to Basel, not much longer. And even from there, on the German border, it’s not much more than 4 hours to Ticino, the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, when you use the Swiss Travel System. A train every hour! And between Basel, Berne, Zurich, Lausanne and Geneva it’s only every half hour.
Each city is within an hour’s travel from the next.
Switzerland by train, bus and boat.
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