our youngest daughter👶works for 5 months in zurich, switzerland. we've enjoyed the opportunity to visit her together with her boy-friend for few days. zürich is just 3 hours away from munich, you know? enjoy pictures from zug, CH + pictures & insights from zürich in this blog post below:
btw, my last visit to switzerland was in 2013 (=> pilatus, lucerne - luzern, rheinfall, schaffhausen). no wonder my CHF notes 💸 were outdated today ... and the waiter who didnt acceppt them, told me friendly i should try to exchange them in the swiss national bank (SNB). btw, the coins are still fine & valid. why? maybe because they have some inner value which paper has not? e.g. the (partly) silver 2 CHF coins from 1967 (and older) contain silver valued 7 CHF today ... of course, you will hardly ever find any of them in your pocket as everyone keeps them out of circulation 😂
zürich, the city of the rich, beautiful, self-confident, money-oriented folks? yes, but not only that. i've been by accident also in one another world ... at a punk / LGBTQ / refugees party in our neighborhood in an occupied house waiting to be torn down and replaced by s.th. bigger soon ... as i didnt had enough current swiss money at that time, there was a unknown lady who has paid the entry fee of 20 CHF for me at that club like / half private party without knowing me. she even refused to take any euros instead. maybe she loved my soccer-like dress 'team world peace 01'? or me? or was that really a community where the people believe it isnt nice to not let someone in only because he/she doesnt have any money? what do you think? 💚😇🍀
unlike germany and eastern europe, in switzerland there is an active + noticeable jewish community.
did we left s.th. for our next visit? yes, of course. we plan to go to the top of the (small) uetliberg hill (870m) to enjoy the view over zurich and all the surrounding lands & lakes. next to the landesmuseum castle & museum close to the main train station. and i will personally try to find out if the swiss earned their conspicuous wealth after WW II by stealing some of the the deposited and never recalled money from european jews, german nazis, oligarchs & dictators and the like? or did they reach it more likely in some honest way by making business instead of wars and huge military spendings? who could help me with any reliable opinion?😇
btw, we didnt have had a nice weather, so all the pictures are somehow rainy & grey, you know? and we didnt swum in the lake züricher see either as both of us were a little bit sick and suffering some slight flu infection ...
the north-western part of the lake züricher see in zürich, CH
entering 'our' part of zürich, die enge (= the tightness) ~
bridge quaibrücke over the lake / limmat river
the train station zürich enge
me, having a drink with my daughter on the way from our place to hers 💖
me, exploring the neighborhood by night
the train station zürich-giesshübel and the occupied small white house over there
alternative (half-private) (heavy smokers) party ...
optimum + vision appartments from outside. not any nice, is it?
the best of all wives 💕
arts? mind control? both?
arts? fear? both? our stay was the optimum (or vision?) appartmnent house. modern but not
any nice. anyway, it is just a 10 minutes walk in the direction lake zürichsee to our daughter 🕙
the active + noticeable jewish community in front of our windows ...
in germany we mostly have foreign muslim communities
a rabbi?
district enge: nice houses, lake side, beach bars ...
our daughter's back yard ...
district enge, villa schönberg in the park rieterpark
district enge, a sphinx in front of the museum rietberg in the rieterpark
villa & museum rietberg
district enge
headquarters of Swiss Re re-insurance company.
my youngest daugther + my youngest brother work for them currently
headqarters of the zurich Z insurance company
district enge, the lake side
swimming in the lake? maybe next time ...
lake side park in the enge district
still the lake side ...
switzerland is famous for its clocks, isnt it?
entering the old city: the street fraumünsterstrasse is parallel to the
bahnhofstrasse and much nicer, if you asked me
the street bahnhofstr with the headquarters of UBS & credit suisse
is s.th. i still remember from a former visit some 20-25 years ago
some youth folk music festival at the old city town square.
a beer in a plastic cup costs 6 CFH ...
the limmat river?
we are still in the old city district
district oerlikon?
leaving the old city district for 'our' beloved enge ...
... here we go 🍔🍹🍻
district enge, the north-western part of the lake züricher see
'our' river sihl is overshadowed by a highway => sooo saaad 😓
a rolls-royce RR in our street ...
the train station zürich-giesshübel, the old zitt motor company
is most likely bankrupt today ...
huge appartment houses are strange, you know?
... maybe s.th. from one of my ukraine / russia telgram channels?
more pictures here.
tags: zurich, zürich, züricher see, zürichsee, switzerland, schweiz, swiss, CH, CHF
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