Pillole di saggezza

"La vostra preoccupazione per ciò che gli altri pensano di voi scompare una volta che capite quanto di rado pensano a voi."

"Don't care about people's opinion on you as they think about you so rarely".

David Foster Wallace

Zurich

Hi
a lot of time far from the blog!!Now it's time to be back ;).
I spent a week in Zurich, it was my third time there. Is it enough to talk about it? Uhm, let's put my first impression here. It is funny for me to be back through my old posts and remind my feelings :).
I can say I 'm lucky, it was a terrific sunny week. I had a lot of work but the week end was beautiful, mostly because I did the thing I love above all : GO AROUND with the BICYCLE! This time the scenario was the Zurich lake, gardens and the city as well. I adore sightseeing a city by bicycle!
Of course my trip there encountered other opportunities, as visit a museum (Museum Fur Gestaltung = museo del design ) , visit the sorroundings ( well known to me but interesting for comparing city to the rest ), have a special evening at the Langstrassenfest ( it seemed to be in London ) , a dinner with guys of different countries and a nice dinner with a special guest ;).
So, my first impression about Zurich is a multicultural city. In these terms it is similar to London, but not so chaotic, the density of the population seems to be lower than London's. There is an efficient transportation system, trams and buses. They are a lot and of course Swiss-ly on time ;). You don't need a car.
Then I learned something more about Swiss language. It seems to be a merge among different languages, i.e. Italian, French and German of course. German is a little bit different and becomes a dialect. The language changes while moving through the Switzerland, with more French influence while moving towards West for example. So there is no a precise and well defined language to learn, it depends mostly on the place where you stay or live.
Next time I 'll be there I want to find out something that makes my feeling of a soulless Zurich overturned! There should be something that shows the original Zurich, it is not visible at first, it should be discovered.
The picture in the right is a nice ice cream at Sprungli 's bar :).