OOO blogging at breakfast. Its not a bad breakfast in this
place, little too much meat for my stomach first thing but tis ok. I might try
bacon and eggs tomorrow.
So yesterday was the first day of my training and it was
quite good fun. Well, maybe fun isn’t the word, but very interesting. I have
certainly learnt a lot about pH sensors. The people on the coarse all seem very
nice. I nice mix of 6 middle aged men from various surrounding countries. Sadly
they all speak German (or some derivation of German) as their first language so
whenever they are just chatting they tend to slip into German, which makes it
quite hard to chat to them. One of them chatted to me about England a bit,
he used to live in Bedford, and one of them chatted to me about football (he
remembers when Forest were good so I got to pull out the old “My dad took me
once but we lost 4-0” story which went down well). Hopefully today I will get
to talk to them more.
After we finished at about 5pm last night I decided to brave
the snow and try and tackle the train system in the (slight) day time. And it
turns out its very simple. Once you get your head around the fact they have
trains, trams and busses all working on the same system it becomes quite easy.
And not too expansive. I paid 12.80 CHF (about £8) to get into Zurich and back
which is quite a lot for such a short distance but I wouldn’t mind paying it in
England if they trains were as organised, spacious or punctual. Also no one
came to check my ticket either way so I wonder how many people actually did
pay.
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| A view of the city over the river |
Zurich is fantastic. You get off the train in this
amazing city station which is just huge. I saw signs to platform 55, and I have
no idea if the was for a bus, tram or train, but it was cool. Once you make it
out of this epic train station / shopping center, you are right in the heart of
the city. To one side you have the old town, where I whiled away a full hour
and a half just walking down cobbled streets, looking in shop windows and
admiring the Christmas decorations. I also found dinner in a little restaurant
where I sat next to 2 Danes. Typical.
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| One of many Christmas trees |
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| Decorations in the old city |
On the other side you seem to have the newer part of town. I
was pretty cold by this point and even the Christmas late-night shops were
closing so I didn't explore so far but I did walk down a huge, wide road with
all the big brand designer shops on it (Mango, Esprit etc) and 3 stories of
Christmas lights strung across the whole street. It was pretty magical
actually.
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| Christmas Lights 3 Story's high on the main street |
And I made it back to the hotel easily, and soon warmed up back
in my room. Now its about time I went to face the day.
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