Wednesday, 9 July 2008

4 cool things about Zurich

From my 3 hours in the city i have to say:
*Nice job with the public transport! Especially trains which really do run exactly on time, with announcements in german, french, english to help the plebs like me.
* Yes food is expensive, but get over it already... Switzerland has the highest per-capita gdp so what'd you expect?
* A certain understated extravagance 'yeah we're filthy rich but we don't flash it 24/7'
* Endless narrow medieval alleyways to explore (in daylight)

Flight from Singapore was good...screaming kids replaced by swiss health freaks who opened their windowshades at 5am, flooding the cabin with beige light. 777-300ER has even bigger and quieter engines, and outfitted with brand new entertainment system (better technology than AirNZ but few things worth watching). Lost 30 games of chess against computer, mostly because i can't move in <5 seconds every time and therefore blew out the clock by the endgame... Made the 5 victories all the sweeter.

Now on a train to Lausanne, a real bed and the conference opening drinks. This is the life!

PS - this was sent from my cell via vodafone email, but gmail mobile still not working so replies will remain sporadic.

1 comment:

Chris said...

great to hear Shaun.

Keep keeping us in touch aye?

-Chris