Zurich Baby!

We just got back from two nights in Zurich with Parky's Mum and Dad. See that little red dot on the map on the left? No not that one, the one in the middle of Europe. That was me in Zurich airport at about 6 oclock this afternoon. I had 3 mins to check the site and leave a comment (for the princely sum of 50p) and, er, I stuffed it up. But I DID get to sit on a stool made out of one of those keep fit gym balls and now I really want one. A gym ball chair that is, not my own airport. Although that'd be okay I spose'.


Top stuff from Zurich:


1. How many fountains? (one on every street corner it would seem)
2. How many sculptures? (one on every street corner it would seem)
3. I saw an expensive designer storage box with a 'fake' bad drawings on it. You know the type, looks like it was done by a child but really drawn by a graphic designer. It had a picture of two children holding lizards by the tale and inserting them head first into their mouths. I tried to take a photo and got a proper telling off by a shop assistant. Oops. The other assistants ignored me and chased a little bird that was flying aound the shop.
4. Trams. These are great as it turns out.
5. A really, really big lake.
6.The italian chef who seemed to think that we were looking up words like "tagliatelli" in an English/German phrase book and ended up showing me different types of pasta to check I understood whilst I said things like "yes, spaghetti, good".
7. Nintendo DS games cost £50 in Switzerland! (£25 on Amazon.co.uk)
8. Travel cards get you on trains, trams, buses and ....boats? Cool.
9. Some of the graphtti was pretty cute e.g. cute little faces spray painted on bins
10. We ate in a vegetarian resturaunt and didn't realise until we finished and the waitress told us the awful truth. It made me re evaluate my fellow dinners. Nice meal though.

Oh, and it rained a lot. But I thought that was cool. How's Chesham been?

Ben