{ The Third most expensive city in Europe: Zurich }
I fulfilled one of my dreams!!! and that is to visit Switzerland, the land of chocolates, watches and most importantly, Swiss Army Knife. And too bad, I brought the rain there and I brought it BACK TOO!!! DAMN IT!! And as usual, my damn legs are really giving way! 11:15 PM • Monday, March 29, 2010
From Zurich to Schwyz to "Singapore Food Festival, the Student Version"
The trip was like a dream come true.. Who would have thought that I will be able to visit such a beautiful country!!
Everything is super expensive, and when I say its expensive, ITS REALLY EXPENSIVE!
Look at the Macdonalds! It charged me 9.90CHF which is about 13SGD for a bloody nuggets meal!!!!!! OMG, felt like being ripped off!
Other than food, everything else is pretty ok.. I changed 350CHF and left with only a pathetic 20CHF..
The trams are clean and the trains are not noisy unlike their England counterparts... I didnt recall seeing any rubbish on the streets but then people in Zurich are a little like those in London, arrogant and rude..
Had the best hot chocolate EVER, better than Lindt ones in Sydney!! But unfortunately, I was there on the weekend, and sundays is when all shops CLOSES!!! Damn it felt like Frankfurt!
So apart from food, the money I changed was mainly spent on trains and tada!!!! SWISS ARMY KNIFE!!! We went to visit Schwyz, which is the "birthplace" of Switzerland and Swiss Army Knife. So it was really much cheaper as compared to SG!!!
I bought 6 by the way.. 1 for myself (so that whichever idiot decided to rob me, its goodbye to their poor balls!!!! Then one for my sister, father, mother and cousin!
1 is for Canadian Sarah for her birthday as she had hers confiscated by the customs!! So remember to:
At Schwyz we even saw, Ying Liu (which is the plant that we often have during Chinese NEW YEAR!!!!) Cant believe my eyes actually haha. The Apls, which can be seen from Schwyz looks really fake.
Dinner for 3 days were mainly homecooked.. I brought Chay Kway Teow paste, Bak Kut Teh Paste.. and even had a taste of traditional Swiss dining, Horse and Rabbit meat.. and also Raclette (A kind of cheese, melted, then put on top of potatoes and some other preserved cucumbers/onions...)
Horse meat looks like beef, taste I dunno but I managed to cook it medium so it was alright. Rabbit meat is a tougher version of Chicken, and it was really good with curry..
As for my Bak Kut Teh and Chay Kway Teow, of cos nothing can go wrong with paste haha..
Then my friends had this Japanese guy who joined us for dinner.. He made us some green tea cream paste thingi which was unbelieveably GOOD and TIRAMISU!!!!!!!!!!!! Omg, that guy is a genius and he made Tiramisu with the minimal stuff he could find, and it was yummy!!!
Ok here are pictures.. me too lazy to elaborate how beautiful the place is, even their paperbags from supermarkets hahaha
A BMW Showroom in the middle of nowhere
Bally which is 4 stories HIGH!!
A Cinema Showing PORN!!!!!!!!
And best thing of all, I made a new friend on the plane!!! I realise I could be sociable too :))))
And heard the best quote ever:
Old Man: Swiss Air stewardess are sweet but the plane is SHIT!..
The old man literally screamed across the cabin
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