The Summer of 07
A blog on my internship at EPFL, SwitzerlandArchive for Switzerland
Trip to Zürich
My trip to Zürich, the first to the German side of Switzerland, was different and memorable in many ways. The most noteworthy (and sour), thing however would be the conspicuously bad photographs of the place I have taken. As the weather gods would have it, it was overcast the whole day and a few sprinkles came down now and then and managed to adorn my camera lens with pearls of droplets, much to my blissful ignorance. The pleasant touch to the visit however was that I met Ania who was very kind enough to show me around Zürich. ::Hey thanks again:: Read the rest of this entry »
Sizing up the Swiss franc!
Getting used to a currency which is 32 times costlier than the one back home takes a bit of doing. Even those tiny little coins convert to a good number of Rupees. Here is a pic of the coins I have. Click to see a bigger image.
Notice something strange: the sizes of the coins. The coins from left to right increase in their sizes. As you would notice the half franc (= 50 cents) coin looks, and is, smaller than the 10 cents and 20 cents coins. Just the way the Swiss like their money to be sized, I guess.
