Holy Cheese - its Switzerland!

Once more I am playing "catch up" to Laurie's European Business Trip.
This time she was in a suburb of Stuttgart, GER but we decided to explore Zurich and maybe a little more of the Land of Swiss Cheese, Chocolates, Watches nand Army knives. Czytaj więcej

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Zurich University Campus
1 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ☀️ 77 °F
We took a short stroll on the Campus

ETH Zurich (German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; English: Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. ETH Zurich ranks among Europe's best universities.

It was totally cool to spot the VW California Ocean, which, despite its looking like a regular van, is actually a mini camper with a popup roof, built-in kitchen, and 4 sleeping places.
Of course, not sold in US 😮‍💨 Czytaj więcej
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Podróżnik I could use a camper like this. We could even park it outside on the street.
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Kunsthaus Zürich
1 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ☀️ 77 °F
No prince, no state, no collector: At the origin of the Kunsthaus Zürich stands a small, sociable circle of artists and enthusiasts who met regularly since 1787 for friendly discussions and mutual support.
Kunsthaus Zürich is an art museum in Zurich. It is the biggest art museum in Switzerland by area and houses one of the most important art collections in Switzerland.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunsthaus_Zürich

Of course, I couldn't help but immediately zero in on Rodin's "Gates of Hell" and for some closeups

Kader Attia's (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kader_Attia) "Janus" is also nearby, and then there is The Spicot by unknown Zurich Civil Worker 🤣

A bust to Ignaz Heim (a Swiss musician and composer) is across the street Czytaj więcej
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Suzanne Duchamp
1 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
French Dadaist and painter Suzanne Duchamp (1889–1963), an important yet often overlooked figure in modern art. The artist left behind a diverse body of work.

As the sister of Marcel Duchamp, she was closely associated with the avant-garde movements of her time and shaped art history with her own artistic language. Her works combine painting with poetry and experiment with a variety of media and materials. Many works have only been rediscovered through intensive research or are even being exhibited for the first time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Duchamp

I'm highlighting
The Portrait of Jaques Villon (another brother)

The Young Girl and her dog (there are supposed to be 4 representations within the painting... I could find 3... maybe... somewhat... still better than "my fave" of Marcel, which I still cannot "decode")

The Autoportraits - photographs (on film) rather than paintings

Ariette of Oblivion from the Dizzy (Thoughtless) 1Chapel

Autoportait with a Cat

2 Silver Gelatine prints of her by Man Ray

"Scenes from the Beach" series and

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Podróżnik I really like this one. Not a huge fan of the era in general, though.
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PodróżnikSame. Modernism never did anything fir me but "here-n-there" I find a piece I enjoy
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Old and New Masters
1 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ☀️ 81 °F
Interestingly enough, we found some works by known artists that we had no idea of previously.
Thinking on it, we concluded that it only makes sense that places of the caliber of The Louvre, The Ermitage, Ufizzi Galery, etc. would have the means and/or patronage to aquire the "greatest" works , hence leaving the lesser known works to places like Kunsthaus, Prado, Tate & MOMA, to name a few.

So here are some works we found interesting, starting with Chagall's "Birth," which Laurie found quite graphic.

In the "Christ Carrying the Cross," we were blown away by the presence of the Phillips head screws

And apparently, Vincent didn't paint just irises and sunflowers.

If you look at the Muses, perhaps even blow that shot up a little , the most right bottom one reminds me of Uncle Adolf 😬

Finally, there's Autoportait of Alberto Giacometti, a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman, and printmaker, who was one of the most important sculptors of the XXth century. His uncle, Augusto Giacometti, was a Swiss painter who did the altar piece at Grossmünster Czytaj więcej
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Modern Art and controversy
1 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ☀️ 88 °F
We moved to another wing, where a more modern art, incl. Laurie's fave Impressionalists live. Of corse, in a lot of ways, I'm not a fan ( see enclosed Joan Miro)... but there are Chagalls... and Monet's Waterloo Bridge that seems to be sporting a German U-Boat. 🙄

The art piece in the video is cool, though.

Speaking of Germans, we then moved into a section that is a part of quite a big controversy.

The controversy concernes the integrated artworks from the collection of the arms dealer Emil Bührle, and it has caused discussion and criticism due to concern that some of the artworks may have been sold under duress by Jews persecuted by Nazis during the Third Reich.Critics say that the ownership history of the artworks has not been sufficiently clarified and, in January 2021, a petition was launched to demand access for impartial international researchers. In October 2023, a panel of academics hired to rectify incorrect or misleading Nazi-era provenances resigned in protest over the way the history was presented.

You can get stuff on it by Googleing Buhrle and decide for yourself where would you stand

I resolved myself to take just a few photos highlighting the most known work of art (that of Renoir). Needless to say, I was not aware of this story, the subject of Nazi looting itself being nothing new.

I'd recommend watching "Woman in Gold" - a 2015 ‧ War/Drama movie starting the ever versatile Dame Helen Mirren to get some perspective on it. Czytaj więcej
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PodróżnikI like the light installation, and of course the Monet. When I took art history as an undergrad the prof told me my tastes were boring and bourgeois.
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PodróżnikAhhh! so YOU were the subject of Louis Bunuel's 😅
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PodróżnikHad to look that one up...
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Back to Amigos Tapas
1 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ⛅ 90 °F
If we can have a Journée de la Cuisine Française then we can have Día de la Cocina Española
And so, after spending 5.5 hours at The Kunsthaus, we returned to Amigos Tapas for some anticipated linner

My beloved Acetunas
Alitas del Pollo
Tortilla Española and
Albondigas con Tomato

T-A-P-A-S!!!! 😁😁😋😋

A true feast for Royals, and we made friendly with the waiter - Alejandro, who happens to be from Valencia Czytaj więcej
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PodróżnikOoo, that looks good!
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PodróżnikCute shirt 😊
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PodróżnikBetween us girls, she got it at a very upscale place
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Die Sonne geht über Zürich unter
1 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria
We are back at Polyterrasse to see the sunset and got here almost at 9:00 p.m.

For the next 27 minutes, I am channeling Andy Warhol, taking multiple shots of the same area but applying different filters.

The sun itself is roughly at 85° (at 2:13 for those who are better with this direction), and so it's slowly casting the hues of pink, red, and gold over the Old City Czytaj więcej
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PodróżnikBeautiful! I love pictures of sunsets.
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The Night stroll
1 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ⛅ 81 °F
A leisurely stroll on Limattquai looking at the sights as the night lights begin to come on.

The swan didn't really want to cooperate.
Every time I pressed the shutter, his head went under water.
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Podróżnik Nice on. The light up clock is something else.
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PodróżnikThanks. Didn’t even notice it... was concentrating on the moon crescent ... only saw it when uploading to the phone
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Bad swan. [Jeanine Belinger]
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PodróżnikWhy don't they teach them to pose for photos? ... you know like they did with bears in Alaska and alligators in South Carolina 😇
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The Night cap
1 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ⛅ 81 °F
Yeah.... Barcelona it is not... looked like by 10:00 p.m. lots of places on Limattquai were shutting down.
So back to Amigos we went (Alejandro told us they are open til 11) and Laurie nightcapped herself with another mojito and I partook in my beloved radler (aka Panache in other parts of Europe).
Alejandro personally made the drinks (waaaay too yummy 😋 😍)... and then compted us 🫢

Can't ask for a better day ending Czytaj więcej
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Nice! [Jeanine Belinger]
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Boat
2 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ☀️ 81 °F
This morning, we are off on a mini-cruise on Zurich Lake.
The boat also acts as a ferry of a sort as it stops at numerous piers, and folks can get off and get on. As a tourist, if you have at least a 24-Hr Pass, you can hop on and off.

Different vessels of marine life

A group of school kids having breakfast

A Study in Color: Chapeau bleu et jus rouge

Vineyards on a Hill Czytaj więcej
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PodróżnikIt's a great way to get a larger view of the area.
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Podróżnik Looking very fancy. Two thumbs up.
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Cruising the Lake
2 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ☀️ 81 °F
PodróżnikLots of flowers, my favorite.
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PodróżnikI was "skipping " on the flowers so I figured I'd make up for it here 😊
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Didn't you want to go paddle boarding? [Jeanine Belinger]
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PodróżnikAre you kidding me? ABSOLUTELY!!! and just jump into the water in general
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Returning to Zurich
2 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
Mice diving tower for the kids
One of those 1940s steam-powered boats
Kitchberg - home to Lindt Chocolate Factory
Grossmünster towers back in view
And so are Fraumünster and St Peter's

Opera House and The Dolder Geand Hotel
Wassershpiel Springbrunnen Aquaretum fountain Czytaj więcej
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What is with the strange look on the woman behind Laurie? [Jeanine Belinger]
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PodróżnikI think she saw an alligator 🫢🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Zurück an der Bahnhofstrasse
2 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ☀️ 84 °F
Took another stroll on Bahnhofstrasse (didn't get enough of the diamond glitter first time around)

Steel rhinoceros "Panzernashorn" by John A. Tobler

Centralhof Monument

Diverted to Münsterhof Brunnen to get much needed water ( that's the one I mentioned where they turn water into wine on special occasions) Czytaj więcej
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PodróżnikNeed a lot of $$$$ to shop there!
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PodróżnikYes. More like $$$$$$$$$ 😁
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PodróżnikWhatcha buy me???
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PodróżnikThe RINO of course 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Christkatholische Augustinerkirche
2 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ 🌩️ 88 °F
The Church of the Augustinian Hermits was built in 1270 on the western city wall of Zurich. During the Reformation, the church was converted into a mint. It wasn't until 1841 that Zurich Catholics reclaimed it as a church. When the congregation rejected the dogmas of the First Vatican Council, it was excommunicated from the Catholic Church. From then on, it called itself the Christian Catholic Congregation. The Augustinian Church remained its place of worship.

It received its present appearance during the renovation in 1959. Worth seeing are the simply designed choir, the crucifixion group, the block altar and baptismal font by Franz Fischer, as well as the stained glass windows by August Wanner.

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PodróżnikInteresting door handles. Very different from the other churches.
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PodróżnikWas trying to see if there were any info on them but found nada 😒
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Beautiful! [Jeanine Belinger]
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Linner
2 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ☀️ 90 °F
Another day of heat wave.
Both of us were hot and really didn't feel like trudging up the hill to go back to apartment for just a few hours before coming back down for dinner, but at the same time any further exploration of Zurich were out of question.
So we decided to have an early linner and simply retire for the day

We went with German/Swiss cuisine

En guete" is a Swiss-German phrase that means "Enjoy your meal!" or "Have a good meal!". It's the Swiss-German equivalent of the French "Bon appétit".

And we stuck to mineral water. Czytaj więcej
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PodróżnikLooks good! Get a good rest.
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PodróżnikHere I am, reading it in German when there's English right there underneath. D'oh.
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Podróżnik😆 I give e you an "A" for the effort 👌
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PodróżnikReading the German is more fun.
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PodróżnikAber naturlich! 😊
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Guten Morgen, Viet.... Zurich
3–5 lip 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ☀️ 70 °F
So for the last couple of mornings I've been going to a corner bakery for our fresh bread and croissants (trying different ones each day; while the bread gets dispatched with at breakfast, the croissants wait until mid day break).
This morning, I also decided to visit a small grocery shop for some fruit and tomatoes but walked up to that before the opening time.
So I just turned onto one of the side streets, figuring I'll do more leisurely stroll, and hit upon all these beautiful buildings

Breakfast consisted of more new things to try:
Gefluger Lyoner
Luzerne Rahmkase (Rahmkase apparently is "cream cheese " and obviously not in the same sense we think of cream cheese) Czytaj więcej
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PodróżnikReally looking forward to my upcoming German breakfasts looking at all of these pictures.
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PodróżnikHaving a kitchen at our disposal definitely helps
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Love the architecture! [Jeanine Belinger]
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PodróżnikYes, unfortunately, we tend to demolish old buildings in order to build new ones. These fine examples of late Victorian to early Art Deco are sunning.
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Murals, stumbled upon
3 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ⛅ 77 °F
We were making our way to a museum walking on the streets we have not been on yet and came across these mosaic murals and couple of sculptures

The 1st one was reasonably easy to identify - "Der Staadt" (The State) by Karl Otto Hugins - but everything else iluded me. Czytaj więcej
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Landesmuseum
3 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ☀️ 77 °F
The Zurich National Museum , known until 2009 as the Swiss National Museum , is the most visited historical museum in Switzerland. It was opened in 1898. Since January 2010, it has been part of the Swiss National Museum (SNM).

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Before we go inside, we take note of inner court and lofties 😆 Czytaj więcej
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PodróżnikHad a bit of difficulty figuring out that toilet signage.
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PodróżnikLol yeah it's like a porta-potty street but LAWD! Soooo clean
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Ideas of Switzerland and Techno
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From Pre-historic to domestic settlement
3 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ⛅ 81 °F
The way the museum works is very cool.
The use of technology is everywhere
You can see the large tablet-type screens that attached to the exhibit case.
They glide the width of the case, showing the items inside the case and you can "zoom on" on the particular item in the case proper, tap the screen and more detailed information on the item pops up.
Then there is a room with a large screen and a number of spots on the floor that show different aspects of human domestication.
You step on the footsteps, and the appropriate image appears ( I'm highlighting wolves before we domesticated them into dogs) Czytaj więcej
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PodróżnikThat's something, very efficient, but it is Switzerland, after all.
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The Middle Ages
3 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
Moving into the Middle Ages, we are presented with an ornate hallway, a series of stained glass windows, and a small armory.
Again, the info is available on the tablets and you can also notice the language options in the upper right corner- makes it a lot easier than trying to Saint and find "the right language " on a 4x6 card

P.S. it's hard to take photos against glass cabinets. Some kind of reflection will be present like it or not
You can spot more of the stained glass windows Czytaj więcej
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Tiled Stoves
3 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
Very ornate and surprisingly multifunctional tile stoves
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PodróżnikIf the furnace dies out at Holy Trinity, I vote we get one of these. Take it old school.
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PodróżnikI'll second that motion 👍
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The Middle Ages 2
3 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
Showcasing
The Atriim with gorgeous tiled floor
The Countess' Sword
Lochmann Hall room
Fashions of XIV-XV Centuries
More stained glass windows
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PodróżnikThe floors are amazing!
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Private Collections
3 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
Examples of vast collection of Countess Hallwil

The Rings collection of A & L Koch
(Interestingly, head-scratching info on the 1st ring: A JEWISH wedding ring with inscription Ave Maria🤔🫤)
And more modern rings (and I'm not wearing any of them)
The Great Hall (used to he Hall of Arms) Czytaj więcej
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The Royals Abroad
3 lipca 2025, Szwajcaria ⋅ ⛅ 84 °F
Although the exhibition includes "Mad"King Ludwig II, Emperors Franz Josef I & Napoleon III (with his mother Queen Hortense de Beauharnais) Queen Astrid and The British Royals I highlighted The Empress Elizabeth, affectionately called "Sissi" by practically everyone. The wife of Franz Josef I, mother of Crown Prince Rudolf (think Mayerling Affair), beautiful and intelligent- she met untimely death on the embankment of Lake Geneva ( cannot BELIEVE I was like 100 yards away from the place last year ... and missed it 😪😡) from being stabbed by an Italian anarchist

Yeah, and that file can rival Booth's Derringer

I strongly recommend the Netfix series "Die Kaizerin" and, of course, there is 1968 "Mayerling" with Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason and Ava Gardner as Sissi Czytaj więcej
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PodróżnikIn Vienna you see a lot about Sissi.
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PodróżnikI bet!!! I was at Schloss Schönbrunn when I was 15, and at the time, I was completely clueless as to who she was.
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