Zurich Recap

So I have completely neglected my blog over the past two weeks and I apologize!

Quick Recap of Zurich:
- Clean, quiet, peaceful city.
- They have a trolly car that goes up a hill for only three minutes to commute the university students from the main street to the university up on a hill. I was very excited by this trolly car and made Gavin take me on it.
- Very pretty river and lakeside.
- Grossmunster church has very beautiful, but very "different" stained glass windows. No huge jesuses here... but cool art pieces.
- Gavin was a wonderful tour guide and host :) I will return the favour in July.
- Sprungli chocolate = AMAZING. Even better? these things: Luxemburgerli
- Gavin cooked me a wonderful dinner each night. Saved money AND was delicious.
- Went on an amazing hike up a steeeeeep hill to get a wonderful view of the city, Swiss countryside and far off Alps. Complete with celebratory half-melted ice-cream and beer at the top.
- Party scene in Zurich = dub-step club and student bar, not as wild as London, but not bad either... the walk home however, was VERY enjoyable.
- Naps on the grass in a park by the lake = a wonderful idea
-....and ASH CLOUD STRIKES BACK!!! A small eruption canceled my flight (mine was the ONLY one to London from Zurich that was canceled -- what are the chances!?) so I ended up crashing at Gavin's another night and heading home in the morning on Monday. Apparently London doesn't want me to return? Okay by me, I'll travel some more!

So there you have it... Three days in Zurich in a nutshell. It was great, I got a patch, and can check another country off the list.

Zurich!

Switzerland tomorrow!
More specifically, ZURICH tomorrow!

I'm heading to visit a guy I knew in first year (haven't seen Gavin in like 4 years, but we kept in touch via facebook!) and I'm really excited! Switzerland was unfortuently one of the countries we couldn't visit in our Eurotrip last year, so I'm glad I'm getting a chance to see it --- and with a local tour guide! Gavin is there studying geophysics or something crazy smart, but I'm stealing him away from his studies to tour me around (actually no I'm not, I lied. He has a field trip in the AM I arrive so I'm gonna let myself into his flat with a hidden key).

The only shitty thing about this trip is the flight time there. I have a 6:30 flight from Stansted airport, like an hour outside of London centre and even farther from the 'Shim (Monica and my new "ghetto white girl" nickname for our lovely little neighbourghood of Lewisham). I am catching an easybus airport transfer at 3:15 AM!!! So I am just going to head out to Sam's flat because she is right near the bus stop and hopefully catch a few hours of sleep. I'm rather nervous flying for the first time by myself, but at least I sort of know this airport (we flew out to Italy from it).

Anyways, the next time I blog, I will be 5 pounds fatter from all the Lindt I eat. Hahaha, jealous Dad?