Well yeah I wake relatively early in the morning (around 5:30 or so). Get up and of course the wind is whipping and its raining on and off. Sure, the day I have to gather up all of my belongings and jam them into my suitcase and carry it down 99 steps – TRUE! 99 STEPS – from Daniels’s bachelor pad to the street.
OK…what the heck the way the wind roars thru here at times it just might clear by the time I plan to leave around 9:00. (Weather changes just like Michigan.). Anyway I fool around gathering up my goods and trying at least to clean up his otherwise immaculate apartment. I have to admit I fail miserably at doing a good job of picking up.
However, at least I left him the appropriate piles of things in spots so he can at least pick them up easily. For instance I leave a pile of dirty linens and towels (I left him an extra towel I borrowed from the last hotel I stayed in), empty beer cans in the sink (but I left him some extra FULL ones in the fridge – fair trade I say), Replaced the chocolate I ate from his home – of course I sampled some.
Do you know they have chocolate with champagne or liquor in them? It is quite a surprise to your taste buds when you are expecting something else! Anyway he made with a gain in candy I hope.
I left him a hooded sweatshirt which kids now a days call “Hoodies”. They will always be hooded sweatshirts to old guys like me. I hope Daniel didn’t get the idea I actually liked him – I just did not feel like carrying it! HAH!
I am not kidding you about the 99 steps by the way…..and they are steep!
Oh yeah also left him some cherry jelly that was awesome on croissants. I purchased at one of my favorite stores in the world “Coop!” Really Migros is right in there as well….but Coop sells beer and Migros does not!
But, really all kidding aside. I was the one who made out here. What an awesome thing for someone to do. Loaning me the use of his bachelor pad for almost two weeks. (Yeah but there was the issue of walking up 99 stairs – or 135 if you went top the garage….thats a lot! Hah what a life!)
Really I was the one who made out in this whole deal. I get to meet some more new friends. Work with football players – become more “worldy” thru some new travels and experiences!
OK back to the weather – it clears briefly at around 8:30 so I am feeling good about my 9:00 departure. I carry that suitcase down 99 STEPS to the bottom and out the door. Lock it behind me – no going back now because I locked the keys inside like Daniel asked…..
SNOW…yup SNOWING sideways with the wind! No turning back now. Shoulder into the wind (oh yeah I am in shorts by the way) with my so called waterproof hood on.
It isn’t a far walk – about 10-15 minutes. But the wind is howling and whipping that snow into my face. Then I think to myself…well it is Switzerland right. Just imagine a guy wearing a Detroit Lions parka dragging a suitcase (thank the man who invented the wheeled suitcase) thru the snow…across a bridge….past the drug addicts on the other side of the bridge (no lie) up the hill to the train station.
Seriously some people did give me the eye as I went into the SBB station to get my train. This guy covered in snow wearing shorts and dragging a suitcase. OK maybe I did look gust a bit silly. OK maybe real silly!
Hopped on the 10:32 to Zurich….an hour or so later….got into the airport hotel and once again the “world was spinning in greased groves” for the second luckiest man in the world!
What a life!
Interesting