The flight to Brazil passed through Zurich, where we needed to wait for 26 hours. Somehow we didn't think especially how to spend a day in Zürich, but since our hand luggage was prepared for 3 days of "survival", the only things we really missed were sunblock and some local currency (CHF) to buy some food and 2-way tickets into town. We exchanged 30EUR and went downstairs looking for the subway "S-bahn".7am. Rainy. We circled the building and found stairs around the corner from were we had started searching. The ticket seller sold Tageskarte (valid 24h for two zones) for 12CHF per Karte. Quite a lot - and probably it couldn't really get cheaper. Already doubling the planned daily "allowance", we paid by card. At the main station, we bought excellent breakfast: yoghurt and bread, which we ate in the lobby of a consulate of some island kingdom with a Welsh-sounding name. Zürich is nice! As Petter from Sandviken said, you're the most impressed in the beginning of a trip. Zürich felt spacey and not at all crowded. Maybe just low tourist season? We slept 2h by the lake, moving twice because of polite requests, and got to see the whole (?) street-cleaning force. Every hour a new cleaning truck, trash-picking team or similar passed by. Maybe it was the after-weekend cleanup.
2pm. Looking for chinese food, a nice retired man suggested us to try the self-service buffet of nearby Migros Restaurant. Looking like a German highway restaurant; and 2,60 seemed cheap but not strange, but it turned out they bill per 100g. That explains why it was filled with gray people with small plates. Another 40CHF (ca 25EUR) spent, also paid by card.Our cash money also lasted for one ice-cream, and at the airport a couple of Toblerone (Swiss, they say). While waiting for the flight we had a chat with our neighbour from the previous night - a wrinkled French woman who probably lived in the airport. She enjoyed telling us how to make the sofas more comfortable. We also saw her boil eggs and quick-soup.
