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Now, if anything would fit the category of miscellaneous, this is it.
What is it????
It hangs from the ceiling of Zürich's railroad station's cavernous entrance hall. A very futuristic sculpture indeed. Well, whatever it is, it did not scare anybody away. This station was just about always packed to the gills with travelers. It did not take me long to manage to find my way around it, though.



What did give me some problems at first were the ticket machines of the ZVV (Zürich Verkehrs Verein), the Zürich Public Transit Board.
I had done my homework about them with the help of travel guides and the internet, but at first they were still a bit of a puzzle.
Some machines took only coins, others coins and bills, but only the CHF 20.- ones. Then I was told, that I could also buy my day cards at so called Kiosks - small shops at major bus and tram stops - while later I found out, that the hotel desk sold unvalidated ones. Duh....why didn't I ask earlier, like when I checked in?
Well, you can't win them all.
And you better have a valid ticket on you. During my travels around Zürich I was more than once asked for my ticket by inspectors. And, mind you, they do not wear uniforms. They dress like ordinary folks ( even punks )










And while we are dealing with the subject of getting around town there is always the true and tried one of locomotion called "walking". I did a lot of it, but the practice of what I dubbed "dry skiing" , depicted on the left and also mentioned earlier in my chapter about Uetliberg, was beyond me. But, come to think about it, walking with the help of ski poles may not be such a bad idea, especially when it comes to going up- and downhill.


This brings us to the end of what I have to show and tell about my Swiss vacation.
I will take my leave here, thanking you for visiting.
See ya.

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