Mar. 28 – Zürich, meaning “too rich”
I *think*, and correct me if I’m wrong, that Zürich and Geneva tied for first place for best quality of life in the world in the most recent survey. I went to visit today with Alex and Cora. As far as I could see, it was a fairly justified rating. Zürich has 2 rivers running through it and sits at the end of a lake. There’s hills all around with villages on them and mountains in the distance. It’s a nice view. It has a big-city feel, but it’s still cozy. The population is about 350,000 or something. The cars are all nice, and by nice I don’t mean that they’re suped (how do you spell this word?) up, but that you could imagine a VIP stepping out of any one of the many, many luxury cars. Their main shopping street is Bahnoffstrasse, which is like our Yorkville on one road.
One of the coolest things I saw today was when we got there and went into a parking garage. There are rows of lights on the ceiling going down both sides of the garage (see picture). They’re green if a spot is empty and red if it’s taken! That is SO genius (and money)! Imagine the time and frustration that I could have saved myself if we had these! I bet that if you added it all up, by the end of your life, you’ve spent days searching for parking spots.
I had a hazelnut gelato which was just not quite as good as the one at the Distillery District in Toronto. I think that store is called Soma or something? We also had Olma sausage, which is a St. Gallen specialty and also basically the cheapest thing you can eat at 6 CHF for one.
We went to the Groessmunster (cathedral), where you can pay a small amount and walk up one of the towers to get a great view of all of Zurich. The stairway is so narrow and there’s only one way to get up and down. If two people need to pass each other, then one has to plaster themselves to the wall for the other to get by. You can imagine how stale the air was inside this tower, but it was all worth it at the top (see pictures)! I think that this means I’m ready for the CN Tower climb this year (haha, yea right).
One of the coolest things I saw today was when we got there and went into a parking garage. There are rows of lights on the ceiling going down both sides of the garage (see picture). They’re green if a spot is empty and red if it’s taken! That is SO genius (and money)! Imagine the time and frustration that I could have saved myself if we had these! I bet that if you added it all up, by the end of your life, you’ve spent days searching for parking spots.
I had a hazelnut gelato which was just not quite as good as the one at the Distillery District in Toronto. I think that store is called Soma or something? We also had Olma sausage, which is a St. Gallen specialty and also basically the cheapest thing you can eat at 6 CHF for one.
We went to the Groessmunster (cathedral), where you can pay a small amount and walk up one of the towers to get a great view of all of Zurich. The stairway is so narrow and there’s only one way to get up and down. If two people need to pass each other, then one has to plaster themselves to the wall for the other to get by. You can imagine how stale the air was inside this tower, but it was all worth it at the top (see pictures)! I think that this means I’m ready for the CN Tower climb this year (haha, yea right).
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