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Zürich August 2026There's some rhythm in there. I can feel it.
#photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #streetphotography #zürich
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Switzerland 3 Months Ago
What to tell you, really? It was a glorious, sunny May 1st when I lugged my brand new pastel mint green cabin bag up a steep hill in the Swiss Alps.
Its wheels were of course useless on the gravel and it occurred to me a backpack would have been much more practical – just as it had occurred to me on another trip this summer, our short cruise to Sweden to be exact, that walking endlessly long passenger boarding bridges would have been exactly the sort of place to bring my cabin bag! Instead, I’d haphazardly packed a random shopping bag like I was just popping to the store next door. The bag only grew heavier and heavier as the trip progressed.
The irony was, I already knew our Swiss destination, Gruyères, was situated on a hilltop and was going to require some hiking to get to. I’d been there before. You’d think I would have taken that into account when packing?
Besides the inauguration of my pristine cabin bag and its perfectly neat wheels, pre-gravel, what more is there to tell you about this trip, really? I hesitate to point you towards my old posts about the same destination, because their silliness makes me cringe. Does that ever happen to you?
So let’s talk, instead, about what had changed since our previous trip to Gruyères ten years ago.
Well, first of all, we had kids this time which changed pretty much everything. Besides this little fact, I can with confidence announce to you that the cows hanging out on the hills of Gruyères no longer had cow bells. Disappointing, yes. Deal-breaker? No. They still continued chewing grass, calmly as ever. If they’d been French cows, they’d have gone on strike!
Also, the cows had obviously been moved out of the way of a new (?) parking lot. The village’s tourism looked more commercialised now, and Switzerland in general was way more expensive than I had remembered. The trains were more crowded, too, leading us to quickly deboard one just before it left Zurich for the Alps, my heart pounding as I counted the members of my family on the platform outside, Home Alone still fresh in my mind as we’d watched it last Christmas. I did, however, end up forgetting my cardigan on the train, but better cardigan than kid!
At one point, we ended up paying 7 euros for a half-liter water (there always comes a point on any trip when you’re just too thirsty to care) and generally just lost money with every glance, step, and breath we ventured. Glad it was only a weekend trip!I think there were chickens last time, too, though probably not the same ones. Come to think of it, I have no idea how long an average chicken lives. Maybe the chickens remembered us and are at present drafting a post about how much we’d changed!
It really was a glorious spring day in Gruyères. The sun so gentle, so yellow, its setting a symphony for the soul. Cheesy, yes – but this was Gruyères, after all.
Photo credit: The chicken photo was taken by my son. I don’t think I’d have been able to coax such a fabulous pose out of her.
#Gruyères #SwissAlps #Switzerland #Travel #TravelPhotography #TravelPhotos #TravelStory #Zurich -
Heute war Faulenztag, aber ein bisschen #rausgeschafft musste sein. Bin also mit den #Brompton kurz vor #Sonnenuntergang zum #Oerlikerturm und hab dort viele schöne Fotos gemacht. Leider hat die #GarminFēnix8 keine der in 2½min erklommenen 10 Etagen erkannt. 🤬🤯😵💫🤌 #mimimimimi
Auf dem Weg runter roch's lecker aus dem indischen Restaurant am Eck. Leider war dort grade geschlossene Gesellschaft. Wurde dann Sushi à discretion. 😋 Und danach nommel auf'n Turm. 10 Etagen! 🥳
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💡 Sehr smart, #ewz, Elektrizitätswerk der Stadt #Zürich: ersetzt herkömmliche Stromzähler durch "Smart Meter - Sparen Sie Energie und Geld mit intelligenten Stromzählern". Kostenpunkt für diese EInsparungen: CHF 6.90 monatlich – pauschal für "Messung"! Ok, diese Smartdinger sind eine Vorgabe des Bundes, aber von den Kosten ist nirgends dir Rede, weder auf eurer Info-Seite oder unter "Häufige Fragen", noch unter "weitere häufige Fragen" 🤔
https://www.ewz.ch/de/private/strom/anschluesse/smart-meter.html
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A very few more tickets became available for the 26th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony (which will happen on Thursday, September 3, in #Zurich, Switzerland). Grab ‘em while you can. #IgNobel https://eventfrog.ch/de/p/wissenschaft-und-technik/the-36th-first-annual-ig-nobel-prize-ceremony-7446575553581194400.html
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Das heutige #Rausgeschafft war dank #GarminChallenge "Wochenend-Spaziergang im August" ein #Spaziergang von 6km durch Zürichs Kreis 11, vor allem #Oerlikon, einschliesslich drei Strassenfesten (Zelglifest/Affoltix, #Sommerfest im #GustavAmmannPark, #MFOWest Sommerfest →#Labör, #SwissGameHub), dem Hallengerüst vom #MFOPark 🫣 und dem Aussichtsturm im #Oerlikerpark, entsprechend etwa 100hm.
#UnabsichtlichesSelfie #Zürich #Twike #BlaueStunde #Sonnenuntergang #Strassenfest #MFO #UngeplantesSelfie
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So every 10 years, people bring some soup from Zürich to Strasbourg by rudder boat. It’s called the Hirsebreifahrt.
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Which side?
Wädenswil, #Zürich #Switzerland
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Wieder eine sehr schöne Ausstellung in der Graphischen Sammlung der ETH #Zürich zum Werk von Hugo Suter
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#Fensterfreitag Blick aus dem Dozentenfoyer der ETH Zürich #ethz auf das regnerische #Zürich – #EndlichRegen
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Naomi Watts Set For Zurich’s Golden Eye Award
#News #NaomiWatts #Zurich #ZurichFilmFestivalhttps://deadline.com/2026/08/naomi-watts-zurich-film-festival-golden-eye-award-1237046058/
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Insan3Lik3 – Lost In Thoughts
#Disco #ElectroHouse #Electronic #Experimental #House #NuDisco #Zurich
CC BY (#CreativeCommons Attribution) #ccmusic
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How many runways can you see for Zürich airport (Switzerland) ? : The answer is on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/lszh/en #zurichairport #airport #zurich #switzerland #lszh #zrh #aviation #avgeek vl
