Zurich is an extremely easy city to get to, located in the eastern German-speaking part of Switzerland. If you're hoping to use your school-learned German, you'll be disappointed - although all the signs are in the "High" German you learnt at school, everyone speaks Swiss German, a language different enough to lead to communication breakdown more rapidly than you'd think! Fortunately though, virtually everyone also speaks English.
Zurich itself is a beautiful city, built on the river Zimmat, and next to the Zurichsee lake. The two main churches; Grossmunster and Fraumunster are both very attractive, and worth a visit. The main street, Bahnhofstrasse, boasts a great many chic designer shops, and is (somewhat bizarrely) lined by a series of papier-mache cows outside each shop. An excellent tram system runs throughout the city, which makes it easy and cheap to explore.
Also, Zurich offers a great number of shops selling the ubiquitous Swiss army knives, in addition to a veritable armoury of swords, combat knives and guns!
The city is only a brief train journey from the airport, and is a convenient point from which to travel further east towards the Engadin basin of Switzerland, and the skiing resorts of Klosters and St Moritz.
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Jul 2nd, 2000
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