Advantages: Exciting City, Great Food, Close to Slopes Disadvantages: Um....
...Ah, well… I lived in Zurich more than ten years ago, and as a student, which has obviously coloured my impressions of the place, possibly in more ways than one… For the purposes of this review, however, this means firstly that if you're looking for accounts of its most luxurious hotels, its Michelin-starred restaurants, or for gushing tales of sprees along the gilded collection of Haute Couturiers and jewellers that constitutes the celebrated Bahnhofstrasse… ... ...been back to Zurich many times since, but most of my favourite haunts are probably still those that I first encountered as a student. ANARCHY & SWISS FRANKS: I first arrived in Zurich as a naive seventeen year old. It was 1992. Smells Like Teen Spirit had just come out, and the youth of Zurich were in the throes of a full-blown grunge epidemic. The same was pretty much true the world over, but in 1992, Zurich was Grunge Central, mainly by virtue ...
snowbunni 14.11.2005
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Advantages: Easy Disadvantages: Some times it can be good to bend the rules. That does not happen here
Zürich Little Big Town I bet the last time you heard Little Big anything you thought of Dustin Hoffman in that movie. No? Okay, its irrelevant anyway; the movie. Little Big Town is how the good burghers of Zürich, Switzerland choose to describe their city. What do you think of when you think of Zürich? Shopping, tax-dodgers and unemployed bankers, probably. Well okay, there are some, but there is more; much, much, more. Water Water all Around For ... ...kilometres long and stretches up to the town of Rapperswill, in a sort of appendix shaped curve. You can swim in the lake, you can sail on the lake, drink beer by the lake on sunny evening and grill by the lake with your friends on a portable barbeque. You can take a boat trip and dance of eat fondue (only tourists do this in summer). In the autumn you can try out fine wines on the Wineschiffe (wine boats) that dock there. Entrance is cheap and you ...
clb-profis 23.07.2009 (28.07.2009)
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