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Zurich, again
Nov. 20th, 2009 05:43 pmI'm back in Zurich in the same hotel room I started the week in. I'm tired enough to feel ill and shaky, so much so that I may actually take the tram to the office for the meeting at 7ish. I've been around Zurich again today and they are setting up the Christmas markets. This is quite a big event and in the train station people stand around chain smoking and watching it.
A week from when I got here, and I can see how a person could love this place, even if my body is in a rage from cured meat and cheese and chocolate as the only things I can consume here. I'm at the point where I am dreaming about salad.
The weirdest thing I saw today as a bird-shaped bread-thing with some sort of dark filling (chocolate? figs?) that then had another stick of bread/pastry stuck into its heart, through which the filling "bled." I saw dozens of these in a booth by the Migros, but failed to take a picture do to shoo'ing!
I also discovered the "No Minarets!" campaign today, which is 100,000 people having signed a petition trying to get the Swiss constitution changed to ban the building of minarets (but not mosques, they claim) as they believe them to be "symbols of oppression." The posters feature a woman in niqab with a bunch of minarets on the Swiss flag in the background, positioned so as to look like missiles.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Coworkers have tried to convince me that the US is just as bad, but no, we don't have posters like that on the equivalent of the New York City subway system, no matter how racist we are (and we are!).
Anyway. I'm exhausted and feeling out of sorts. I'm uploading some photos now that I'll do a post with later, but tonights main activity is going to be packing the luggage to get all the gluten-free croissants and alcoholic chocolate to fit.
Sundries and other stuff will return again on Monday if not Sunday.
A week from when I got here, and I can see how a person could love this place, even if my body is in a rage from cured meat and cheese and chocolate as the only things I can consume here. I'm at the point where I am dreaming about salad.
The weirdest thing I saw today as a bird-shaped bread-thing with some sort of dark filling (chocolate? figs?) that then had another stick of bread/pastry stuck into its heart, through which the filling "bled." I saw dozens of these in a booth by the Migros, but failed to take a picture do to shoo'ing!
I also discovered the "No Minarets!" campaign today, which is 100,000 people having signed a petition trying to get the Swiss constitution changed to ban the building of minarets (but not mosques, they claim) as they believe them to be "symbols of oppression." The posters feature a woman in niqab with a bunch of minarets on the Swiss flag in the background, positioned so as to look like missiles.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Coworkers have tried to convince me that the US is just as bad, but no, we don't have posters like that on the equivalent of the New York City subway system, no matter how racist we are (and we are!).
Anyway. I'm exhausted and feeling out of sorts. I'm uploading some photos now that I'll do a post with later, but tonights main activity is going to be packing the luggage to get all the gluten-free croissants and alcoholic chocolate to fit.
Sundries and other stuff will return again on Monday if not Sunday.
