Swiss Life
Recycling – there are ugly public drop-off containers for glass and metal; plastic at grocery stores; beer bottles w/ deposits at grocery stores; papers wrapped in string picked up 2x a month and cardboard also wrapped in string once a month. The hours for public drop-off containers are 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. except never on Sunday. Still trying to find out about recycling tetra paks.

In our apartment complex we need to sign up to use the washing machine and dryer which theoretically should help but not everyone follows the rule – and you can’t do laundry on Sundays. I wonder if people hang out clothes to dry on Sundays?

Even in the parking areas near the forests you need to pay for parking. The Zoo which is located near the forest encourages visitors to come by public transportation because it is more relaxed and environmentally sounder.

Small world experiences of Zurich – We’re living in a small apartment building owned by ETH with about 6 apartments and share an entry with a 3 floor apartment. We rose early our first morning here to meet the apartment manager. As we left our apartment, a young woman was coming in – her family had been here for 6 months and was leaving that day. When we said where we came from, she told us that she had been born in Ithaca! Her parents were asleep and we didn’t meet them. Last week as Mac and I were leaving, a woman was coming out of the next apartment where she had been taking pictures for the tenant who will arrive in August. He’s a professor from Cornell’s Mechanical and Aerospace Department whom I have met a few times. And tomorrow the next tenant is moving into that apartment for 6 months and he spent 6-7 years at Penn State – long after we left.

Larry and I took the train to Uetliberg Saturday – walked up to the top of Zurich which was a tower at 900 m. and then walked for a little over an hour via a great ridge top Planet Walk. We rewarded ourselves with a beer at Felsenegg and after a further 20 minute walk shared lunch – both outdoors. Then back to Felsenegg and a tram car down the hill, train back to Zurich. Then we searched for the James Joyce bar where we enjoyed Murphy’s on tap and drank to Joyce who was buried 65 years ago just a few tram stops away from our apartment in the most beautifully landscaped cemetery with a great vista Mary Helen has ever visited.