Oct 05 2008
Ten good things about Switzerland
- Happy domestic animals: cat escapes (aka kitty staircases) and dogs (big dogs, small dogs, cute dogs) welcome everywhere (restaurants, IKEA, trains)
- Sheep lawn mowers
- Safe and clean
- Cheap good local wine (stay tuned for pictures from our trip to wine country!)
- Food! Chocolate and cheese are good, cornichons are a standard item, and food from Spain, Italy, and France is (pretty much) locally grown
- Public bathrooms: often clean, often free (but sometimes without soap! yuck.)
- Public fountains with potable water to refill our Swiss-made Sigg waterbottles
- Ability to get almost everywhere by public transportation
- Beautiful views of the Alps and Jura mountains and Lake Geneva even from industrial zones
- Hills aplenty, so no need to pay for a gym membership
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Haha. Yes, kitty staircases would be Swiss luxury…American luxury would be kitty elevators. Man that thing is at least four kitty stories high, and no banister!
I actually suggested to my dad once that we get a cow (not a sheep…close enough) so he wouldn’t have to mow the grass. He declined.
I showed this to the Swiss student in my math program. He agreed with a lot of them, but was somehow puzzled by the “sheep lawnmower” point. I figured that all Swiss families had sheep lawn mowers. . .