Zurich, The New Seattle?

Imagine a magical place where it cost $8 for a pint of beer, $12 for a bowl of soup, and around every corner you see a Star bucks. Where is this place you ask? Well its the banking capital of the world, Zurich, Switzerland. Ok so Im exaggerating the Starbucks thing. But everything else is true. Actually Zurich has over 10 Starbucks. Its hard to find a coffee shop besides it. I just arrived to Basel, Switzerland today. Zurich was nice. When I arrived on Sunday the Zurich city marathon just started. That was interesting to see people cheering on their favorite runner. The rest of the day I walked around. Zurich is famous for banking. If you want to see all the citizens dolled up in their business attire, just walk on Bahnofstrausse. This street is covered with expensive shops selling $1000 watches and shoes. Lets just say that isnt in a travelers budget. On Monday I took the train to the Rhein Falls in Northeast Switzerland. The Rhein Falls are Europe's largest waterfalls. As you can see they are pretty amazing and the weather certainly helped out. It cost 6,50CHF to take the boat to the center. That is about $6.













Here are two videos as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA967YYUYvA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7m1ObZusZY

Sorry for some reason this German Mac does not have the hyperlink button and for the life of me I can't remember the HTML code. So you will have to copy and paste.

Yesterday I had planned on going to Lucerne in central Switzerland. It is supposed to be one of the most beautiful cities in Switzerland. But when I awoke it was cloudy and raining. I didn't want to get there and not be able to see the mountains above. Last night I met some Canadiens and we decided to try to get into the Deftones concert. One of them and myself made it in. He got his ticket for 20CHF but mine was 30CHF. Face value was 55CHF. I probably shoudn't have done it but I thought a rock concert in Zurich would be interesting. Let's just say it wasn't no bluegrass show. The thing that upset me was the fact that they only played for 90 minutes and no encore. Now that is a joke. I guess Im just used to my 3 hour jam sessions. I am here in Basel until Sunday. Im not really sure what I am going to do because it has even less things to do then Zurich. If the weather is nice, which it is not today, then I am going to try to make it to Lucerne. That drawback is that it is double the price to get there now since I am further away. Here are some pictures of Zurich.






Oh I need to share a story. My friends Tadeja and Julie took me to the train station in Ljubljana on Saturday night. Well when we got there the train was delayed for an hour. So we decided to get some drinks in one of the train station's bars. The train decided to arrive before the one hour. Right when we got to the platform they blew the horn to take off. I got on the train while I was giving them both a hug as the train started to leave. It was a scene straight out of a movie. I don't know what I would have done if I missed it. Sorry I don't have more pictures. There just wasn't that much to take. This will probably be my last post until I arrive in Turkey. Unless I get out of Basel and to some surrounding areas.