Hidden surprises

I drew Suzanne reading the morning papers in a Cafe in Zürich on a Saturday morning. The Cafe (I have forgotten the name)was a pleasant place and not particularly flash. Not, that is, until you took the trip upstairs to the ladies loo...

Zürich Street Party

Weeping, laughing, grinning

I visited most of the museums in Zürich but the first I visited was Villa Wesendonck where Richard Wagner wrote his Wesendonck Lieder. The villa is a fine old house in a lovely park and is now called Museum Rietberg.

As I was walking there I got a phone call from Greta saying her baby had been born an hour before. A daughter. Greta held the phone to the baby and I heard her cries. I wept and laughed alternately there on a Zürich street corner as I listened to new-baby cries from the other side of the world.

By the time I got to the Museum and looked at their collection of Swiss masks I was grinning just like the mask above.

Zürichsee and Arboretum

Zürich is built right on the edge of the tranquil Zürichsee...
and there are parks along the edge of Zürichsee where people play and relax on warm weekends. This one is near the city center and is called the Arboretum.

Zürich is pretty

Zürich is not only a pretty city, it is friendly and everything works. Trams run through the city streets at frequent intervals and there is so little other traffic that people wander across the streets at will.
A river runs through the city to the lake around which the city is built. It is peaceful and serene and a perfect bathing spot as the water is clean enough to be drinkable. After spending a few days in Zürich I now understand why it regularly comes top in 'most liveable city' surveys.