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last few snippets of Switzerland

I keep finding little reminders here and there of my time in Züri. The last few things.

I went to a young artists exhibition in Winterthur. The art was really quite impressive, and it was in a space called City Hall, an old factory with a huge open space on the top floor. At the end of each night during the weekend, they had a small concert. I got to watch Captian Mustachio and his sidekick Pedro (or something like that), some country honky tonk style music. Discovered a Swiss song I really like (see post about Big Zis, is lower somewhere), and the Swissy/Berliner who made the video has some pretty cool pieces. Didn’t quite catch the names of some of the other artists, but it’s not like I have the money to buy their work.

jeff gets excited when he sees paper menus that look like beer.

This goofy googler and I went to a bar called Rimini. Rimini is an outdoor male bathhouse (swimming area) in the warmer months, a bar at night, and an open air market on Mondays. In October, they put up a huge tent made of plastic tarp, and decorate the inside like some sort of crazy 70’s living room: old couches, funky hideous wallpaper, and taxidermed animals here and there, including an eagle perched on a rotating disco ball. Here’s a mink showing some love.

Many central european cities other than Munich have their own small Oktoberfests to celebrate the harvest. Zürich has two. One is on the river, and the other is uhm, in the main train station. I coerced a friend into going on the last night, and it wasn’t very hoppin (9pm on a Sunday is probably not the most interesting time to go to anything) the drunkards down the table from us were making towers from all the mini jäger bottles they had.