Despite being a saturday morning the streets are pretty empty, Zurich seems to hide its population well. We wander the cobbled streets in the chilly air looking for food and the museum for Art and design (Museum fur gestaltung und kunst). After a meandering journey through the city we find what we are looking for, inside we discover the competition finalists for the 50 years of Helvetica, 10 A0 posters fighting it out to best extoll the virtues of such a fine typeface. We also take in an exhibtion by Konstantin Grcic an industrial designer, and a resident exhintion about city planning with amazing scale models photography and topoograhic maps. This is watched by the bespectled staff members that seem to view us with a little distrust.
We have a look inside the Suisse museum, a mighty building housing a walk through Suisse history featuring Catholic ivory reliefs of Jesus, frescos, gigantic globes with illustrated constellations, preserved wood pannelled rooms, paintings, arms the lot.
We found that eating out is an expensive business and decide to take a tram in any direction out of the city in search for cheap food. After being told off by a tram driver for not knowing how to operate his doors, we end up in a suburb at an Italian restaurant ran by an Indian family, its a homely looking little place with good inexpensive food. Typically eating out is anywhere from 24-46 CHF (10-20 in old money for a single course).
We drink beer and retire to our musical rooms.
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