Arrived at Zürich at 10:30am. Had a walk down to the lake, and fed some swans. Then wandered around the city for a while, took lots of pictures of the city. It was quite nice, nothing special but still a pleasant walk. We had a look at the National Museum, it was relatively boring, nothing that stood out as special, except for this big f**k off sword that was bigger than Janath... we were wondering how anyone would pick it up.
After the museum we stopped for lunch by the river. It was very nice, we fed the swans here as well. They came very close and did not bite you when you were feeding them.
We continued our walk around the city, it was quite nice... except the weather packed in and we were walking around in a light drizzle. We found one thing that was quite amusing, which emphasised the Swiss snobbery... a seat that said "Nur für Steuerzahler der Stadt Zürich" which translates to "Only for taxpayers of Zurich"... so of course we took a photo of us sitting on it :)
During our walk we went up the Gross Münster (biggest church in Zürich). It was a good walk up and very much worth it. The view of the city was definatly cool.
We were getting bored of Zürich, so we decided to head out of the city and see the Rheinfall.
After driving an hour or so we parked up and got out of the car. We could already hear the waterfall in the background. A 10 minute walk and we arrived... it was very impressive. We took many photos and videos of the waterfall. You could get so close you were almost touching it. We even took a boat ride to the centre of the waterfall where you could climb up some steps and onto one of the tall rocks in the middle. My camera battery ran out just after taking a movie in the centre... so that was the photos for the day :)
After the Rheinfall, we decided we wanted to go to an Asian restaurant for dinner... so we searched the GPS and found a Vietnamese restaurant in Vallingen. This was a nice little restaurant called Saigon. The owner could speak German and English very well (he was Vietnamese of course). Both Janath and I asked for our meals "very hot". The owner said "I have something for you to try"... he brought out this bottle of sauce, got Janath and I a toothpick each, dipped the tip into the sauce and gave it to us. We touched it to our tongue and nothing happened. Within 10 seconds your mouth was completely on fire... even Janath couldn't handle it! My eyes and nose were running for at least 10 minutes and my mouth didn't stop burning the entire time I was there. If you guys wanna try it go to this website: www.chilliworld.com
We had the "Da' Bomb Ground Zero" which is a measly 235 000 Scoville units, out of a possible 16 million!
Got home just after 11... so crashed and that was the weekend. Nothing too major but was a very nice relaxing weekend.
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