Grüezi Maintenant! Since I've been living in Switzerland this year, and I really like this

country, I've decided to post an entry about all the cantons I've visited so far, and those I'll visit in the future.

I'm going to start with the canton I live in: Kanton ZUERICH

This over here is the flag/shield of Zuerich, it's on all the cars' number plates, Rathaus, hung from balconies, etc etc. Every canton has one, and so does every town in each canton. There are loads of wee flags all over the place.

About the language, here they speak a dialect of German called Züritüütsch. It's supposed to be the easiest to understand of all the Swiss German dialects. To be perfectly honest, I've only studied German for two years now, but after living here seven months I still don't get half of what the people say.

The town I live in is called Winterthur (a lovely place really). It's a little bit up north from the actual Zürich (ten minutes by train)

this would be the flag of Winterthur (Löwen von Winterthur; you don't get town flags in

number plates though) These flags are called Stadtwappen

by the way.

This town is not very big, but in my opinion it's a very nice place to live in. Everything is 15-20 minutes away, and the closest Migros is about five minutes from where I live. (Migros and Coop are very important aroud here)

The most "interesting" street here would be the Marktgasse, which has all the nice shops and so. If what you are looking for a bank, the best street to go to is the Stadthausstrasse (parallel to Marktgasse)

Actually, I don't really now what to write here... I could go on for hours writing about Switzerland and all the nice stuff that's going on around here, but I wouldn't really know where to start. I'll just add some more pictures (of Zürich city though) and I'll think more about it when I post the next canton.

Zürichsee (you can see the Alps in the distance)

Picture taken while sitting in the Lindenhof Park

Taken from the bridge