At the very beginning of November, we had a holiday here in Spain. Doesn't really matter which one, and quite frankly I don't even remember. A day for some saint or religious figure, surely. Anyway, the holiday fell on a Thursday, which meant that my school also got Friday off. I took advantage of the four-day weekend and took a little trip to Switzerland. I flew to Basel, in the northwest corner of the country right where it borders France and Germany, and stayed there for three nights. Since Basel is pretty small, though, I spent the first day there, the second day in Freiburg (Germany), and the third day in Zurich.
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| View of Lake Zurich and Swiss Alps from the Üetliberg Mountain. |
Basel and Freiburg were both nice little towns, but I really, really loved Zurich. This is partly because I had great weather in Zurich (the only day it didn't rain on me - it was actually sunny pretty much all day). The city definitely wouldn't have been as pretty and I wouldn't have gotten great views of Lake Zurich and the surrounding mountains if the weather had been rainy, or even cloudy. The only downside to Zurich - or anywhere in Switzerland really - is that it's
expensive. They don't use the euro, and even though one Swiss franc is about equal to one euro, prices are crazy. I ate a sausage for lunch in both Basel and Zurich because the meals in sit-down restaurants seemed to run around 20 Swiss francs, minimum. (I didn't complain one bit though: even though I actually kind of despise Spanish sausage and don't care at all for Italian sausage, I cannot get enough of Swiss/German sausage. As someone once said to me, it's basically an art form there.)
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| Lunch in Basel. |
Anyway, auf wiedersehen und gute nacht.
