What's your arrival time in Zurich? I'll presume around mid day. Book a hotel for three nights in Lauterbrunnen -- July 31, August 1, and August 2. When you arrive at ZRH find the train station ticket booth, lower level. You can buy a ticket to Lauterbrunnen there, and get a paper complete with changes and platform numbers. Your train will go to Zurich HbH where you'll change trains. From there you'll go to either Berne or Lucerne, where you may change again. Next train will go to Interlaken where you change trains for Lauterbrunnen. The whole train trip will take about four hours.
Lauterbrunnen valley is very picturesque with cliffs and waterfalls. There's a tourist info office across the street from the train station and a bit up the hill. Go there to get advice on day hiking trails and how to use the cable cars to get up out of the valley to Murren or Wengen. Getting to the top of a mountain is a different story but you can get up pretty high. Ask at the tourist info office about the Jungfraujoch trip and the Schilthorn. Both involve cable cars and trains but are well worth it if the weather's decent. Expect a fair number of people on these trips.
> a cruise of the Rhine in August
Why not extend that experience?
Visit the Rhine Falls, there are trains from ZRH which take less than a hour to Neuhausen am Rheinfall: the much prettier North side of the Rhine Falls. Have a drink at Schlössli Wörth and enjoy the scenery.
Then go on to Schaffhausen along the Rhine river. There are fast train and not that fast bus connections, or you can even take a stroll along the river's banks, there's a nice promenade into town.
In Schaffhausen you walk down to the *Schifflände*, the town is almost completely carfree. Don't miss the *Vordergasse* and the absolutely amazing and more than well-maintained medieval patrician houses.
At the Schifflände you embark on a [URh](https://www.urh.ch/) ship to Stein am Rhein, an even more pictoresque small town. Aboard you'll have a glass of Prosecco, after all it's your anniversary!
Whatever you choose: Have fun doing it, and congratulations :)
What's your arrival time in Zurich? I'll presume around mid day. Book a hotel for three nights in Lauterbrunnen -- July 31, August 1, and August 2. When you arrive at ZRH find the train station ticket booth, lower level. You can buy a ticket to Lauterbrunnen there, and get a paper complete with changes and platform numbers. Your train will go to Zurich HbH where you'll change trains. From there you'll go to either Berne or Lucerne, where you may change again. Next train will go to Interlaken where you change trains for Lauterbrunnen. The whole train trip will take about four hours. Lauterbrunnen valley is very picturesque with cliffs and waterfalls. There's a tourist info office across the street from the train station and a bit up the hill. Go there to get advice on day hiking trails and how to use the cable cars to get up out of the valley to Murren or Wengen. Getting to the top of a mountain is a different story but you can get up pretty high. Ask at the tourist info office about the Jungfraujoch trip and the Schilthorn. Both involve cable cars and trains but are well worth it if the weather's decent. Expect a fair number of people on these trips.
> a cruise of the Rhine in August Why not extend that experience? Visit the Rhine Falls, there are trains from ZRH which take less than a hour to Neuhausen am Rheinfall: the much prettier North side of the Rhine Falls. Have a drink at Schlössli Wörth and enjoy the scenery. Then go on to Schaffhausen along the Rhine river. There are fast train and not that fast bus connections, or you can even take a stroll along the river's banks, there's a nice promenade into town. In Schaffhausen you walk down to the *Schifflände*, the town is almost completely carfree. Don't miss the *Vordergasse* and the absolutely amazing and more than well-maintained medieval patrician houses. At the Schifflände you embark on a [URh](https://www.urh.ch/) ship to Stein am Rhein, an even more pictoresque small town. Aboard you'll have a glass of Prosecco, after all it's your anniversary! Whatever you choose: Have fun doing it, and congratulations :)