Day in Zurich

Before coming to Zurich, I did some research: what to do in Zurich.  My idea of switzerland are men wearing nice watches, controlling the global economy in private banking while eating fine chocolates.  The banks were numerous, everywhere sold watches (in fact, I picked up a guide to Zurich and for the shopping section, it only listed watches) and the chocolate is very good.

That aside, the city was rather uninspiring.  I spent almost nine hours trekking across it and up and down it, and found nothing that got me at all excited.  There was a nice church with some chagall stained glass windows, and I went up on top of a cathedral type place to see the city (which is large).  I saw a sailboat running up a spinnaker which was pretty sweet.

The highlight of the day was actually when I stopped to see about a linen shirt (I decided in the end it was a little bit over the top violet for me).  There was a gentleman there looking at some jeans, I asked his opinion on the shirt, and we started chatting.  We walked out talking, and continued for about fifteen minutes meandering down the street.  At the end when he was heading off in a different direction, he was nice enough to give me his card, and asked me to email him about New York.  He has a few friends that also run hedge funds, and said maybe he could help me find something.  The man has lived everywhere, I was impressed with his knowledge of many places all over the world.

Had Bibimbop for dinner.  It was pretty terrible.  I miss good ethnic food.

Train to Munich, hopefully I will meet up with Natalie tomorrow night.