"Switzerland" a Zürich Travel Page by Trillian2005

...the fashionable, expensive shopping street Bahnhofstrasse and Swiss chocolate, which you can, of course, also buy on Bahnhofstrasse, in addition to just about anywhere else in Zürich. And that's what I liked best about Zürich and Switzerland. It (the chocolate) is excellent and at least as delicious as Belgian chocolate. I was so busy buying and eating chocolate in Zürich that I didn't notice much else. I seem to remember vaguely that the city (and the rest of the country) was very orderly and organized and full of efficient people. Being from Germany, I felt strangely out of place in Switzerland. Perhaps the German language that Germans and Northern Swiss have in common had something to do with it. I think Finnish is easier to understand than Swiss German although I don't know one word of it. I really only understood Bahnhofstrasse.

...consist of Bahnhofstrasse and chocolate, there's also a river called Limmat. It doesn't run along Bahnhofstrasse and neither is it full of chocolate because Swiss chocolate is so tasty that nobody would carelessly throw it into the river.

Here you can see Cynthia and myself on a chocolate break. We didn't go swimming in the Limmat, neither before nor after eating boatloads of Swiss chocolate, because the water was way too cold. And anyway, it wasn't necessary since it rained during most of our stay in Zürich, although we visited there in mid-summer.

That's my dad (on the right) with two of his colleagues in Zürich. My dad used to work as a sales representative for Rivella at that time. Rivella's headquarters were located in Zürich, so he took frequent business trips to Switzerland and brought us back lots of Swiss chocolate and...Rivella! For a while Rivella was marketed in Germany by the name of "Larell", which my dad helped to invent. When my nephew was little, he used to call it "Rallel", but now it's back to Rivella from Switzerland and anyway, my nephew is 44.