back in the saddle
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Tuesday, March 30, 2004 hey all so I`m in Zurich.. and I forget how to use the swiss keyboard as I`ve finally trained myself on the austrian one.. so please excuse my typing! I left sunny Brand at 8:57 this morning, catching the lovely 81 bus to Bludenz.. After having a lovely conversation with the ever-so-friendly austiran train employee regarding something they were to have sent me a month ago in the mail, I bought a ticket to and from Zofingen (which you may or may not remember as the town I lived in in Switzerland when I was 16) to go visit my friend Fari, all for the low low price of 50 Euros. You see, I was informed Saturday that due to the fact that we only have 7 guests staying in good ol`Walliserhof for much of this week, I got from Monday at noon until Saturday at 7 am off work. So I figured I should go somewhere exciting. It was a tossup between Munich and somewhere in Switzerland. Munich cuz I`ve never been there, and Switzerland for the opposite reason, it's similar to a homecoming.. after much humming and hawing I received an email from Fari, who had no idea I was in Austria and was just emailing me to see how I was. I took it as I sign and told her I was coming to visit on Tuesday. she was shocked The train ride out was umm entertaining... due to some work they're doing on the tracks between Feldkirch (Austria) and Buchs SG (Switzerland) you get to take a bus between the two. I enjoyed it. You get on the bus in Feldkirch. Sit down. drive. after about 20 min you hit the border with Liechtenstein... but really you're going through swiss customs, as switzerland and liechtenstein have a customs union. I really don't know why switzerland doesn't just annex liechtenstein. We drove through lovely Schaans, Liechtenstein, and the only reason I knew we were in liechtenstein was the licence plates on the cars. The only reason I knew we were finally arriving in Switzerland was because we crossed a river (damn naturan borders) and there was a little sign with the swiss cross on it. whoop di do.. I was quite surprised to see that Liechtenstein had industry, I always thought of it as like a place where people live to evade taxes or something... Customs was interesting, it made me kinda happy to be a canadian. first of all, I (as ususal) got no stamp on my passport. none. the only place that seems to be paranoid enough to really bother to look at my passport is the US (and Britian).. when I flew in to Frankfurt I basically waved my passport and they waved me by. same thing here. I actually bohtered to open it to the page with my picture, the border guard looked down, I'm assuming noted the maple leaf, and continued on to the people behind me. They were carrying what looked like russian passports, and the guard inspected them for like 10 min, each. mine he coldn't even be bothered to touch. So now I'm in sunny Zurich. I'm going to hang around here for a while and then continue on to Zofingen later this afternoon.. posted by kim | 4:06 a.m.|
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