Uetliberg and Knabenschiessen!

On Saturday we finally tried out the bakery near where we're staying and then spent the morning at some fairly uneventful apartment inspections around Wiedikon. We've now got a list of more places we would like to check out, and will probably be spending a lot of time next week visiting and applying for places. After the inspections we stopped at an italian place for lunch, where the waiter tried to teach me to say "Es schmeckt gut!" (it tastes good!) in a more swiss way, which I don't remember now... :/

 

Since it was a clear and sunny day, we decided to head up Uetliberg, the local mountain, which is near Zürich. Because it was very hot and we're lazy, we took the train up almost to the top and then walked down. Here are some pictures from the top. I didn't take many because Pat has a much fancier camera and took much better shots. (coming soon)

Federbär and the lake

The west side of Zürich

Zürich and the lake

At the top we stopped at a restaurant, and had some food, Pat ordered an iced coffee and I had a hot chocolate. The iced coffee, strangely enough, had the viscosity of pudding, I mean it was delicious, just unexpected. Here is Federbär having a taste...

When you come visit us here in Zürich, I highly recommend the trip up to the top of Uetliberg, it's a great view and the walk through the forest is great! Everything is so green! The path down is very steep, but since you're going down it's not so bad (or there is still the train). 

From up there we could hear gun shots from the Knabenschiessen, a shooting competition for high school kids. We get a half-day public holiday on Monday for the purpose of this event, there is also a Fair. It turns out that the fair ground is just at the bottom on Uetliberg on our way home. So we walked straight through it.

Not a great picture, but the only one I took of the fair

I bought some Biberli which is a kind of packet made of Lebkuchen (same texture as soft gingerbread but not ginger flavour) and filled with a sweet paste made from nuts, in this case Hazelnuts (Haselnuss). It was awesome, definitely will look out for that one again.

We also had some Raclette which is a delicious mixture of melted cheese on either Bread or Potatoes, and Pat bought some beef on a stick, which came with some bread on the end too, which we don't recall the name of. 

Raclette mit Kartoffeln (Raclette cheese with potatoes)

Pat with beef on a stick

At the end of the day, our feet were sore but we'd had a great time. Pat has much better photos from Uetliberg, which he'll post here sometime next week.