Yesterday we went for a bit of a walk and found some great pizza, I will try and make a map! I'm very excited, if a little apprehensive. It struck me as we were landing in Zurich that I don't think I've ever spent so much time by myself as I will in the weeks to come. Good news is that I feel really safe here. Jesse and I went for a jog at 5:00 this morning (I need to make a map of that too!) and there were covered bike parking everywhere, full of bicycles, none of which were locked! It's not like bikes are cheap here though, I saw an advertisement for something similar to my Schwin at home, 1400 CHF !!! Thats a house payment. So yeah I'm confident that I will be safe here wondering around Winterthur on my own.
On the agenda today is to wander around and see if I can find a laudry and a shopping center where we can buy me a watch, and Jesse a pair of casual shorts, its in the 70's here this week, we did not plan for that. Also I want to locate a city park where Jesse can have room to do his TaeKwon Do, and find some Museums. Apparently Winterthur is the home to a very large collection of French Impressionist art, Wolfram was telling us that while Impressionism was not popular in France it was being bought up in Switzerland long before the trend caught on. I see a day long trip to that Museum in my future. We found a flyer for an english language tour which includes 2 drinks after the tour for Thursday night, so I will need to locate the starting point today so we know where to go, then I'll book those tickets.
Right now we are staying at an international bussiness hotel, so free WiFi in the lobby and our room even has a view of Mc Donalds!!! LOL I'm sitting in the Bistro where Jesse and I had our breakfast, s nice buffet with fresh bread, cereals, yougurt, eggs to boil as you like as well as juice and Coffee. Have to say though, glad we brought our water bottles, since last night we paid about 7 bucks for a glass of Sprite and a bottle of flat water which tasted just like we get from the tap in our room.
Also note to self: must look up how to play Settlers of Catan with two players. We found a great travel addition, smaller than my laptop, but we forgot that standard rules require 3 or 4 players! Grrrrr!
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=115366543867116498783.00048758fa1843c8dbbc1&ll=47.496575,8.720033&spn=0.007684,0.019205&z=16
No comments:
Post a Comment