Happy New Year from the land of chocolate and cheese!

Yesterday I walked the old town of Zurich located on the east side of the Linmat River. Check out "Angel D" hanging out by the river with St. Peter's Church in the background. This church features the largest clock face in Europe. The old town has plenty of window shopping opportunities, stunning cobblestone streets, squares (platz) with fountains and decorated christmas trees. Also in my journey, I came across a vending machine. It offered the regular confectionary items plus a pregnancy test, condoms and Swiss cannabis tea....all of which I was NOT in need of!

 

You could have guessed there is some serious overload of chocolate and cheese in Zurich. Tonight we are having one of Switzerland's winter dishes, Raclette. It is melted cheese you scrape ober boiled potato, cold meats, picked onion and gherkins. Type it in on google and see some photos....I can feel my metabolism slowing down already. Yesterday, this friendly Italian man sold me chestnuts on the street. Never had them before and not sure I will have them again. They are kinda dry with a bit of a bite. Should have went for one of the chocolates I'm admiring in the store window below.

 

We stayed in for New Years last night and my friends invited over another family. The family is in Zurich for a 4 month work term and guess where they are from? Waterloo! We had a fun night with lots of bubbly and watched the count down on German TV which was hilarious. The photos below are of my godkids Marcus and Lily, and with their parents Katarina and Chris. I met Katarina in University when I subleted a room where she lived. We hit it off famously after a number of shots of black zambuca at the bar....oh, that can't come as a shock to you!