Firday, the 21st ,part 1

Left the ship this morning to go to a ATM, and find the tram to the train station. We are now docked at Basel, Switzerland. This country does not us Eoros like many of the other countries, so we needed an ATM. Got that done, got change so we could buy tickets for the tram. Went back to the ship to get our suitcases. We could have used a credit card for the ticket machine, but made me nervous. Could not figure out which ticket to buy. Everyone seems so helpful, but the buy a yearly pass. So they do not know anymore than us. Gave up a nd just bought us each a ticket for the zone. Go on train, but no where to activate our ticket. Asked someone which stop was the train station, she was getting off there, so we just followed. Then we could not figure out how to activate our ticket or read the schedule. Ticket guy was not much help, but he did give us the track number of the next Zuerick train .  Trains have two fronts. The engineer just switches ends when he puts into a dead end station. Not a through track like we are used to. Followed people onto the train. Whoops, we were on first class. Conductor stamped the tickets and sent us back three cars to second class. Settled in for the hour ride.
Got to Zuerich, to switch trains. Figured out at that point how to read the schedule boards, and the reader/changing board. Then we were confused because the train was not labeled right. A young man told us it was a subsitute train, so our seat numbers did not work! All worked out anyway. Got here in Schauffausen about 1 pm. Checked in at hotel, then found a bus to Rhine Falls. Again the person we asked did not know which ticket we needed. Just picked one and got on the bus we had been told was correct.

So we go to the falls, walked down to them, a long ways. So there is this cute city train pulled by a small tractor. The driver speaks no English. So we go to gift shop and ask the lady there. She says it goes up to the upper parking lots. Sounds good to us. We get on. It passes the parking lots and does not stop.