Our Temporary Home

Here are pics of our temporary apartment in the city. It's located on the border of a neighborhood called Zurichberg. There's a cable car outside the local Migros (grocery store chain) that Zurichberg residents take to get up to their homes in the hills. The hills overlooking Lake Zurich! It's a great neighborhood. The parks (see next post) are pretty amazing and we're going to miss living this close to everything. Thankfully, our new place (we got the apartment in Ebmatingen!) is only a 20 minute bus ride from the city and the public transportation here, in my opinion, is the paragon of efficiency in rapid transit.

More about the apartment. I love not having a top sheet to deal with when making the bed. Just a duvet is the way. How trash is disposed of is also worth mentioning. You have to buy specially labeled trash bags for CHF 2/ea. and your trash must be in one of these pre-paid trash bags. Recycling bins are located in various locations and glass is separated by color. There's also a bin for metals and another for plastic bags. The packaging of products takes into consideration that consumers pay a hefty price to throw out waste and I will dedicate another post to what the packaging looks like. I still cannot cut the milk cartons open correctly but this is one of those little things that I enjoy about being so far away from home. Having to learn a new way of doing something.