Zurich in general

WHY ZURICH? 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… my advice would probably be to read no further. I've been back to Zurich many times since, but most of my favourite haunts ... more

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 a start there is a lake. This is some 30 kilometres long and stretches up to the town of Rapperswill, in a sort of appendix shaped curve. You can ... more