I walked through the little big town today and took the Polybahn cable car to the observation platform from where I took a panorama picture (as you can see above). I was intrigued by the building behind me—namely the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology or ETH, one of the two large universities in Zurich and among the top universities in the world with graduates such as Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who discovered the x-rays and Albert Einstein, who discovered a lot of other stuff. I sneaked into the university and had a nose around. It´s an impressive building with lots of nerds and business people walking around. I found an art gallery inside with an interesting exhibition about image puzzles. There was a free tour starting just when I walked in, so I decided to sneak into that one as well. Very inspiring.
There is so much going on in this little town. There´s a coffee museum and one that shows wax figures of diseases. There´s as much art as cheese fondues and so many other interesting oddities that are just waiting to be discovered. I'm not sure if a semester is enough to see all of this.
Although it was freezing cold and I risk to lose my index finger while I'm snapping away, I couldn't resist the temptation to take some HDR photos of this wonderful town. These photos are from the center, but I also took my camera to the lake to capture the beautiful view over lake Zurich and the alps at the horizon. My battery died in the cold but I promise to post the result very soon.
Here´s a first take on High Dynamic Zurich.
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