Happy New Year 2008!!

Hi there!!

First of all:

2008!!

As most of you know, I've spent my New Year Eve in Zurich (Switzerland). In this post I want to remark some things that I've learnt from that trip:

1. Going to Madrid by car is easy. Things start to become vague, blurred funny once you reach "Atocha". =)
2. Not in the whole Europe is the Euro taken as currency.
3. Even if the Euro is not taken as currency in every country in Europe, at least in Switzerland, you can always pay in Euros. "Ja, Sicher!" - ¬¬ '
4. One is never prepared to stand the fucking so wonderful cold at the mountains.
5. New Years Eve is celebrated everywhere the same: FIREWORKS always required =)
6. Trips do NOT need special preparation, such as, knowing something about the country/city previously, printing a map some days before the trip, buying a guide of Zurich... Of course, you will always complain about the fact of being so careless and didn't get all that information before.
7. You will buy the right ticket to take the bus, then, of course, once you get on the bus, you will realize about the fact that this ticket needs to be printed with the current date to be valid and that the machine to do that is not in the bus, it is at the bus-stop. ¬¬'
8. Even if you felt stupid about the fact of the bus-ticket. You can always forget AGAIN to print the ticket with the current date :P
9. Some of the things that I learnt in the Deustchkurse at Goethe Institut about Switzerland were useful.
10. Only Indians work at Hauptbanhof.
    
11. Schweitzerdeutch is not so easy to understand, specially from Indians working at Hauptbanhof.
12. To make your german more understandable in Switzerland, you just need to pronounce it as you were Spanish (see Jacobian).
13. Live in Switzerland is REALLY expensive! But they have nice notes (cash), of course, just to confuse you a little bit more, the coin of 20 cents is bigger than the 50 cents! OMG!
    
14. And the most important one that I've learned for granted:

ALWAYS HAVE A 'B-PLAN'!! :)

Hehe... I've enjoyed that trip a lot!! Fer, I'm ready for the next one!! :P
Next post I promise a more detailed (here understand 'photos') view of the trip to Switzerland!

Lots of kisses!!