Zurich

Spring is coming, and I think this is one of the best times of the year to visit Zurich. In winter, you wish to be on the slopes and in summer, still, you may find it better up the mountains. But in spring Zurich comes alive after a long winter, and it can be surprisingly mild. I have friends there and I have visited twice. The city is quite large, but the touristic bits are all in the center. The old town is actually just behins the Train station, so, in principle, even if you are passing through Zurich, you may do a stop over. A couple of hours would be enough to give you a feeling for the city and you can have free maps of the city form ...

WHY ZURICH? Ah, well… I lived in Zurich more than ten years ago, and as a student, which has obviously coloured my impressions of the place, possibly in more ways than one… For the purposes of this review, however, this means firstly that if you’re looking for accounts of its most luxurious hotels, its Michelin-starred restaurants, or for gushing tales of sprees along the gilded collection of Haute Couturiers and jewellers that constitutes the celebrated Bahnhofstrasse… my advice would probably be to read no further. I’ve been back to Zurich many times since, but most of my favourite haunts are probably still those that I first encountered as a student. ...

I’d never been to Switzerland before you know! How thrilling it was to feel that boyish excitement about visiting a new county, exploring new sites, tasting new cultures. Being the inquisitive kind of chap that I am, I insisted on reading as many reviews as I could find on both Dooyoo and good old fantasy Ciaoland. Yet I could feel myself brimming up with outrage and horror at the standard of the reviews and also the information that was within these somewhat half-hearted attempts to describe what I can only say was one of the most romantic, laid back and enjoyable city’s I have visited in my life. Yes, I know it does not have the mood ...