Ok, the post title isn’t that fair, Li does actually live in Lausanne (which is in Switzerland). But she does speak French!
Anyway, last week I had my final exams for this exam period, and I had the sudden freedom of having a week-long holiday. As it turned out, some of my currently-studying-in-french-speaking-contries classmates from LiU were free as well, and we decied to meet up. Viktor (currently in Nancy), Jesper (Montpellier) came to visit Switzerland, me and Li (who’s in Lausanne). All and all, four of us “Yi” students met up here in Zürich.
After arriving in the Student Hostel, we threw a little reunion party and made Semla. And when I say “We” made semla, I mean Li and Jesper. Viktor ist just pretending to work, and I’m just taking photos.
My room is only 12 square meters, so three people staying over was quite cramped. I was happy have a nice bed, the others slept more or less on the floor.
The next day I showed my guests around the city. I begun by taking them up to Uetliberg, 500m above the city. There were low clouds haning over the city, but at 900m you were above most of it.
After a tour of Polybahn and the ETH we went to see the old town and the lake. Jesper was fascinated by the swans.
By the lake at Bellevue, watching the (foggy) Zürich cityline.
Zürich is very expensive, and to convey this feeling to my guests I took them to the main shopping street, Bahnhofstrasse. First off, we tried Sprüngli Café and their Luxemburgerli. I thought these were somehow special to Zürich, but we ended up arguing whether or not these were plagiated French Macarons.
Further up on Bahnhofstrasse, we stopped to look at Swiss watches. I think Jesper pondered using this year’s CSN money on a particularly nice Rolex…
What’s down there?
Even I got to be in a photo!
We ended the day in a restaurant, trying Rösti with Zürich-style Geschnetzeltes. After that, they went to Lausanne to continue their holiday in more French-speaking regions.
Thanks for the visit, guys! I hope you enjoyed Zürich.
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To end the discussion, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxemburgerli. As I expected, french macarons has been around for 500 years and Luxemburgerlis are just a brand created 50 years ago. A Similar story to of the Blossa Glögg that most swedish people think is the most ancient thing there is, actually created with a massive commercial campaigne with a well known song in the beginning of the 90′s.
@Jesper: So many nice photos, and we’re still arguing about Luxemburgerli
Well, I guess you’re right this time.
Haha, fast wikipedia som enda källa? Jesper då.
Och sen måste ni ju få Pär att ge sig in i diskussionen, för att citera wikipedia:
“A variation of macaron called makoron, which substitutes peanut powder for almond powder and flavored in wagashi style, is widely available in Sendai, Japan.”
Där har vi det, alltså! Det som är gemensamt för våra utbytesstudier är en macaron…
Haha! Tänka sig. Men många fina bilder från Zürich var det i alla fall och jag blir sugen på att baka Semlor igen!
Mycket trevligt inlägg måste jag säga och det ser ut som om ni hade riktigt trevligt där borta! Fina foton också.
Blev påmind om att jag aldrig tog tag i min idé om att göra semlor…och ska kolla upp macaronerna från Sendai så får jag återkomma om det^^
Tack Jonathan för gästfriheten! Det var mycket trevligt att besöka dig och Zürich. =)