Day 22 - Zürich
After a great evening, a good night sleep and a magnificient shower (and a couple of updates to our blog) we headed out to visit Zürich for a couple of hours before heading to the Zürich Open Air. The first thing that struck us, and we won't get back too much into details about this but Zürich is crazy expensive. It's on par with the UAE. I guess that's ok when your salary is aligned with the local standards but when you're unemployed and in euros, it stings a bit.
We arrived from Baden to Zurich central station and headed out towards the Zürichsee along the Limmat. It's very pretty, old buildings, narrow streets, and waterfronts. The town oozes wealth which is a bit unsettling.
We chilled a bit on the lake shore and then the weather changed in the blink of an eye. The wind picked up, the clouds became a dark shade of green. and all of the sudden, the rain started pouring like i'd rarely seen.
We decided to head to the festival site in the tram as we had free tram along with the festival ticket. We hoped that it was a temporary shower and it would stop eventually by the time we got to the site of the festival near the airport. It eventually did stop while we were waiting at our stop.
We walked to the festival grounds, got our bracelet and got our first freebie of the night, the tickets are expensive but you get more free stuff than you can handle, free rain coats, free chewing gums, free headphones, ... no free drinks though...
They had to cancel the first two bands on the main stage for b/s technical reasons so we didn't get to see The Kooks.
Fortunately, they didn't cancel Major Lazer, Pendulum & Dillon Francis which were the ones we were interested in. Words cannot describe the feeling of seeing Pendulum live after listening to them on repeat for the last 10 years. A proper fanboy moment.
We arrived from Baden to Zurich central station and headed out towards the Zürichsee along the Limmat. It's very pretty, old buildings, narrow streets, and waterfronts. The town oozes wealth which is a bit unsettling.
We chilled a bit on the lake shore and then the weather changed in the blink of an eye. The wind picked up, the clouds became a dark shade of green. and all of the sudden, the rain started pouring like i'd rarely seen.
We decided to head to the festival site in the tram as we had free tram along with the festival ticket. We hoped that it was a temporary shower and it would stop eventually by the time we got to the site of the festival near the airport. It eventually did stop while we were waiting at our stop.
We walked to the festival grounds, got our bracelet and got our first freebie of the night, the tickets are expensive but you get more free stuff than you can handle, free rain coats, free chewing gums, free headphones, ... no free drinks though...
They had to cancel the first two bands on the main stage for b/s technical reasons so we didn't get to see The Kooks.
Fortunately, they didn't cancel Major Lazer, Pendulum & Dillon Francis which were the ones we were interested in. Words cannot describe the feeling of seeing Pendulum live after listening to them on repeat for the last 10 years. A proper fanboy moment.
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