back from vaction

Its been crazy here, so I ll try to do some quick summaries.

the weekend of the 17/18 of October, I went to Bruges/Brussels

This past week, I was in Munich, Vienna and Zurich.

I think this blog I m going to focus on Zurich, as it was the most recent. I loove Zurich. It is the MOST expensive city I have EVER been in (Paris is the same, so I can't complain too much) but what makes it glaring, in your face obvious is that everything is in Francs. And the franc is only .02 less than the US dollar. THis is good, you might be thinking, but this is actually where you are tricked. The Franc just makes it even more obvious that the Euro is worth roughly a third more than the dollar is. Add that to the fact that (as I learned) that Switzerland is one of the MOST expensive cities to live in, and you see where you get stuck. You actually understand and can't even try to pretend that the euro and dollar are the same, cause you are using the franc and that is. And buying a sandwhich for 8 franc,s you know, is a rip off, when you just came from Vienna, and got a three course dinner for 5,80. Yes, Vienna is cheap, and the food is great. Go there !

Back to Zurich though. Best part of it is that it has this interesting combo of french and german cultures. The sandwich in my hands is a baguette (french) made out of Pretzel bread(german)! How neat is that!? A lot of the food would be a mix of both german and french, but the serving size I noticed was french. Also french pricing. Which I didn't like so much.

We also went hiking. And saw the Milka cows. They are so cute! And they even have the giant cow bells on them...so everytime they moved.....

I ve decided that happy cows are not from california. They are from Switzerland. AND on that corny note, I m going to bed!