Hotel Ascot - A Summit Hotel Zürich

I spent my last week in Switzerland frequenting the UN library, running from interview to the next, and visiting Zurich.

I ended up having five interviews in my last week, suddenly everyone started e-mailing me back weeks after I e-mailed them. It was hard because I had to write my paper and prepare for all of the interviews, but it was definitely worth it. I was happy because I got to meet with someone from the ILO ...

In den letzten zwei Wochen habe ich einiges an neuer Ausrüstung zusammengekauft. Unter anderem ein neues Zelt und warme Winterkleidung.

Letztes Wochenende habe ich meine neue Ausrüstung das erste mal ausprobiert und bin am Freitagabend mit ...

Still in Beautiful Switzerland!!

We arrived in pretty Lucern after a long yet beautfil detour through the swiss alps... the train that was supposed to be beautiful, scenic and quick turned into long, scenic and on a bus for half... like everything else in this country, there was part of the tracks that were being worked on and closed! but it was ok, they had a bus waitin for us and ready... we jumped on the bus with the rest of the ...

... was play in the snow...the only other people that were playing in the snow were the 3 year olds...but I couldn't pass up the chance of making a snowball and chucking it at Leanne!! So I did!! Too much fun! I made a few more just for fun...I'm pretty sure everyone thought I had never seen snow before...little do they know where I come from! haha. Once my hands had lost their feeling...I moved on for a bit. We walked through some caves in the ...

... flower boxes oozing with colour. Hills dotted with little chalets and stacks of firewood eveywhere.

Everybody is just so friendly as well, as you walk down the street you are greeted by every single person that passes. Its such a nice feeling. I spent most of my trip visiting with family who live just 20mins away from the city yet already it is just little villages with a village atmosphere. Its just incredible and couldnt be any more different from the hussle and ...

... helped I think, but the bed starts out like a couch and folds down electronically. Everything is controlled with the push of a button. It was a space-age accommodation for a quick overnight nap of about 4 hours by the time I got settled and went to sleep only to wake up at 4:30 to catch our flight to Brussels.

We got to Brussels on Tuesday morning and were greeted by our colleague we had met up with the week previous at our training event. He's a charming man who had a great ...

... down Zurich's back alleys and cobblestone streets. To be honest, we found little to our liking. The shops were mostly specialty stores selling astonishingly expensive goods. The coffeeshops and eateries were similiarily overpriced--despite the weakness of the Swiss Franc (CHF) compared to the dollar. The ubiquitous doner/kebap places which are all over every other major metropolitan area in Europe were depressingly absent from ...

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Winterthur, Zürich, Switzerland senmaster

... 6, or R88 to give you an idea. I hope the Swiss get paid a lot because it must cost a bundle to live there. The city itself is pretty small but very scenic as it's situated on Lake Zurich. Been there done that ....got the T shirt. Off to Berlin on another overnight train tonight.....looking forward to a shower to be honest.

... Here in Switzerland there are Fasnacht celebrations in many cities staggered over several weeks. Zürich Fasnacht was March 3-5, while Basel's Fasnacht was March 5-7 this year. We saw advertisements for other Fasnacht celebrations as early as the third week in February. It really is too bad we missed it, but we can't do everything, and we can't control the weather. For more information about Fasnacht check out the following ...