| Zurich |
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| What a beautiful city! I feel now that I know Zurich downtown really well since I was there about a week with no car. You really learn a place when you have to walk it. Highlights of the Zurich stop were: The Golden Arch Hotel - my first few nights turned out to be in the only MacDonalds Hotel in the world! Three star place but strange to stay there with an M over the bed! Look at the link and photos of the place! Awesome bed with only a duvet cover, no sheets! *** Oh, I just found out that the reason I LOVED the beds so much is that they are $4000 Sit n Sleep beds made by Bico. Ooooh. Now called Epeda, This is the bed I will be buying! The hunt and purchase of a GSM cell phone - found one and a Swiss SIM card after shopping 6 or 7 places! Amazing that I actually found one and it works! First overseas grocery store - I didn't know thqt you had to weigh the vegetables yourself before going to the counter to pay... Food is very VERY expensive in Zurich: oranges were the equivalent of 3USD for 2 oranges. First time on a European train and I sat in first class; I didn't know there were different classes! I thought it was really nice, quiet, lots of room, and then the ticket guy came around and told me that my seat was in second class. I asked after I got off the train and learned that I have to look for the yellow stripe to indicate what class trains they are... after that it all made sense. Suisse national museum eating awesome cheese and meats noticing ciggarette dispensers and people smoking all over the place First blister Visit from Michael Schloh who now lives in Munich Germany boat ride on Lake Zurich Playing digeridoo the first time I picked it up in an awesome instrument store on the limmat quai! I guess this is a latent talent all tuba players share and don't necessarily know about! Staying in my first pension, like a boarding house. Very nice and it also had the duvet cover instead of sheets. Must be a European thing. Fondue dinner with Michael! Travelling to Oerlikon for the morning before catching a train to Munich; watching an old man get beat at every game of oversized chess he played and hearing the story of how he keeps playing anyways. |