Zürich

I made a weekend-trip to Zürich in a good company of my host-family, or actually just with the mom and the kids. I took almost four hours to drive from Munich to Zürich, and the kids were turning impatient, but - I could have watch ages these mountains and other landscapes there were outside of the car.

We were invited to the house of the mothers half-sister, whose husband works for one big IT-company, moving once in three years to other place (they have been living for example in Greek, in Saudi-Arabia, now in Switzerland... wow).  It was nearly 8 pm. when we arrived, so we just ate dinner, took the kids sleeping and had nice conversations with wine and cheese.

Saturday I went to the tpwn, experience the atmosphere of money-smelling city (Zürich = zu rich = too rich). I didn´t have much time to find out before where I should go when I had only one day, but when noticing the coffee-museum by Johann Jacobs were closed for whole summer, I decided just do some walking around in the old-town and the famous Bahnhof-strasse, Fraumünster Church and the Kunsthaus - one of the largest and most famous art-museums of Europe.

The Bahnhofstrasse, the most expensive shopping street of Europe, wasn´t actually my favorite - I have seen these luxurious shops (Chanel, Dior, Lous Vuitton, Tiffany´s etc.) and done the window-shopping already in Munich and well, I am just not that interested about these over-priced things. I wish I will never be that rich that I can´t figure out other options to use 6250 frangs (4628,50 Euros)  than a Hermes bag.

But in the end of this street was lovely fleamarket! I found a cute scarf and found out the salepersons mother was from Finland. Weird and funny, talking Finnish with a stranger in the middle of Zürich!

                          local kids swimming at the pool

Fraumünster Church and the windows painted by  Marc Chagall is beautiful. Taking pictures was forbidden, of course.

The Kunsthaus was really worth for visiting. I spent 4 hours watching cool photographies, modern art, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, old masters and other collections.  And an hour in the bookstore also - not bying anything, just wishing there were more space in my luckage and more money in my wallet, remembering my grandpas all the art-books he had and wondering how many of these books I could actually use in my future work in kindergarten.


In the evenig, beautiful wiew in the S-bahn alongside the Zürichsee -lake, and of course having problems with the tickets again. I am not sure, why I had bought the wrong ticket but luckily the conductor realised I was travelling first time there and I at least had bought some ticket and just told me how to buy the ticket and wished me to nice way home - I was so pleased not to be paying the 80 Swiss frangs (60 euros) penalty.

Another evening with good conversations and wine, love them. Sunday was just going to the beach with children and travelling back. Good people, good stuff. Yeah, Zürich was clean, beautiful and sunny, I loved the Kunsthaus, but... this time, it was the good people making a this trip good. Not the other stuff.