Our journey to Zurich is a simple and short one, However it was aboard an aeroplane you could have landed in your back garden, small. From the airport to Zurich is a ten miute train ride, which gives you an arm chair introduction to the sigts and scenery on offer in Switzerland.
Tonight we have lodgings at a hotel called ZicZac, which is a musically themed hotel, each room dedicated to a singer or band from the 50's onward. Our talking heads room is dissappointingly bereft of any reference to the band and only features a framed photo of LL cool J clutching his groin and Ringo Star with four arms, Bens room however, doesn't fail to deliver he has an 8' Elton John portrait to lull him to sleep. Better him than me.
We waste no time and set about exploring the city, and finding a beer. We sit by lake Zurich sipping beer and watching the locals, the skys are clear and there is still snow on the surrounding mountains. Now I have arrived I feel the past months preperation and anxiety ebbing away. Switzerland makes a good first impression, the air is clear the streets are clean, people are well presented (if not a little frosty), the city is a spiky skyline of churches and spires, the buildings are fantastic and the public transport seems a little over the top (bus, train, tram, boat), the only draw back so far is that things do seem a bit expensive.
All in all its a gentle and pleasing introduction to Suisse life.
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