St Moritz, Graubünden & the Southeast - Discover Switzerland: Experience the Best of Switzerland - page 530

( 081 252 32 30; Hof 1; mains Sfr19-39; lunch & dinner Tue-Sun) Wooden floorboards creak
as you enter this vaulted Gothic restaurant. Take a pew to feast on regional flavours like
Pizokel with plums and Capuns under the wrought-iron chandeliers .

Shopping

KERAMIK RUTH
(Obere Gasse 31; 1.30-5.30pm Tue & Thu, 11am-4pm Sat) Ruth displays her sweet-shop-bright
pottery at this hobbit-sized shop - from hand-thrown pots to polka-dotty teapots.

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RÄTISCHE GERBEREI
(Engadinstrasse 30; 1.30-6.30pm Mon, 8am-noon & 1.30-6pm Tue-Fri) Upstairs are mountains of
fluffy sheepskins, downstairs are genuine cowbells for a fraction of the price you'd pay
elsewhere.

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Information
Tourist office ( 081 252 18 18; www.churtourismus.ch ; Bahnhofplatz 3; 7.30am-8pm Mon-Fri,
8am-6pm Sat & Sun) Has stacks of info and maps on the region and can arrange city tours.

Getting There & Away
There are rail connections to Klosters (Sfr21, 1¼ hours) and Davos (Sfr27, 1½ hours), and
fast trains to Sargans (Sfr10.40, 20 minutes), with onward connections to Liechtenstein
and Zürich (Sfr38, 1¼ to 1½ hours). Postal buses leave from the terminus above the train
station.
Chur is the departure point for one of Switzerland's most memorable rail journeys, the
Bernina Express ( www.rhb.ch ) to Lugano. The four-hour route takes in 55 tunnels and 196
bridges. A one-way ticket costs Sfr82; seat reservation is an additional Sfr12/9 in summer/
winter.

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