Nobody puts Natey in the corner

Ok - now my turn to be a part of the information superhighway and share my part of the Ross European adventure on this here free blog that will no doubt make me an Internet sensation landing me an appearance on Ellen someday. After a week+ of being here, a couple of impressions thus far. It's a different place than SF for sure (which i guess could be said for pretty much anywhere compared to SF!) when it comes to language, size, weather, cost, transportation and uh, lots of other stuff I don't know about yet.

Allow me to expand starting with public transportation. After being abused like an unwanted dog by our good friends at SF Muni for the past 8 years, including the 37 destroying the side of my parked car and forcing me to somehow justify how it's OK for a bus system to have no bus arrive for 15 minutes at 7:00 in the morning only to then see 3 bus' arrive literally bumper to bumper as if they are hitched together like a train. (What - gets lonely out there bus? Seriously) So here, they post actual time tables at every stop. It tells you that at 6:38 a bus will arrive. And when my watch says 6:38, a bus shows up. Amazing.

• Language - actually quite a few people speak English, still a little tough at times but really not a big deal.
• Weather - I'm told it isn't normal, but the rain here makes Portland seem like the desert.
• Size - still a big city, but easy and quick to get around
• Cost - $6.15 for a cup of Starbucks coffee, and I mean just regular black coffee.

Beyond that done some pretty cool things so far, went to London for a few days of work, no time for sightseeing but will go back at some point for sure. We went to Luzern this past Saturday which was a 45 minute train ride away for a music festival called the Blue Balls festival (just a clever name people, relax) and saw some bands play and ate some good fair food. Didn't start serving beer though until 5:00 pm which I thought was weird. We also as a bonus on Saturday night found a place here in Zurich that had Baseball on! Very good find.

This coming weekend, we move out of this temporary apartment, hit the hotel for two nights, I head back to San Francisco for two weeks while Cleaver moves into our permanent place, all before joining me in the US for a few days of fun in San Miguel. Once we return in mid August we'll be much more settled and looking forward to more exploring!

 Bridge at Lake Lucerne