My Year In Zurich

Trip to Vienna, Bratislava, and Budapest

Bratislava is only an hour away by train from Vienna, and Budapest is only three hours…

Swiss German

Switzerland has four official languages: German, French, Italian and Romansh. The distribution is around 60%, 30% and 10% respectively, for German, French and Italian. The fourth language, Romansh, is spoken only by around 30,000 people, but is nevertheless an official language due to historical reasons…

Swimming in Limmat — what I learned

If you’re in Zurich in summer, you must definitely swim in Limmat! Jumping into the river from a…

Wrapping up

It’s been almost 9 months that I’m already back to US, but life has been busy, so I never had a chance to update and wrap up this blog…

Trip to Basel: 3 countries in 3 hours

Yes, the title is correct, I did hit 3 countries in 3 hours, and it cost me less than $10 with a special 3-zone ticket you can buy in Basel to visit across the border to Germany and France! The German city is called Weil am Rhein, and the French city is Saint…

Skiing in Switzerland

I have to start this by saying that I’m not a good skier, so take everything I say here with a grain of salt. Before moving to Switzerland I’ve only skied for a weekend in Pennsylvania.

The first thing you’ll see is that Swiss are EXTREMELY good at skiing! Most of…

Winter holidays in Zurich

I decided to stay in Zurich for Christmas and New Year, since I’m not planning to be here for the next winter…

Trip to Oslo

This was quite a random trip, I took it because I got a 99CHF Black Friday flight deal from Swiss Airlines.

Trip to Copenhagen and Malmo

I was initially planning to go only to Copenhagen, since I was joining a friend of mine on a Euro-tour. But…