Much Ablog About Nothing: Sprechen sie what?

Gutenmorgen jeder,

Ness and I have just spent our 1st weekend in a rather wet Zurich. It had been raining since Thursday and the sun finally shone through on Sunday afternoon. Although the weather wasn't fantastic we still managed to wander the central city of Zurich on Saturday and also made our way out to Sihlcity which is only about 10 minutes out of the central city by tram. Sihlcity is basically a very modern shopping/entertainment area - shops, bars, cinemas, restaurants etc. The one noteworthy thing to mention is at Sihlcity is a small museum that is currently holding an exhibition on the great Stanley Kubrick - the exhibition also features screenings of his works. I of course plan to see this but am timing it to coincide with the screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which I have never seen on the big screen before.

So far as Zurich city goes, we have seen the most part of the main area and now plan to start making our way to the nearby museums and sights in the weekends to follow.

There is just so much money here in Zurich, a freakin' ridiculous amount in fact. Ferrari's are as common as Commodore's, at least half of the city's shopping area is filled with places like Cartier and Armani. There is a certain air of snobbery about it, especially when you see the rich wives wandering the shops sporting their mink and carting their preened poodles in handbags that are only just less expensive than what they paid to have their dog's hair styled.

On the street level though, most regular people seem to be quite friendly. There are naturally some communication difficulties here, it seems there are not so many English speakers - the language is primarily German but has a bit of French mixed in as well, but we are managing pretty well.

It is definitely a different experience and feel here to what we became used to in Amsterdam. Not that you can really compare one to the other. But for now I shall leave you with a few photos of Zurich.