Yesterday we took a stroll up and over the big hill behind our apartment. On the top of the hill is the science campus of the ETH, where Martin works. We took a few pics of it because I've been meaning to blog about it since I arrived in Zürich:
He works in this huge building with five "fingers" to it. You can't tell but you can see the mountains (on rare clear days) from these buildings and they all have balconies outside of their labs so you can wander outside and get some fresh air whenever you want to.
Here's a sign for the campus:
The same big building but from a different angle (Martin works in the middle one). There are other buildings on this campus as well but this is the biggest:
Sometimes there are cows in the fields around the buildings but when we took these pics they were in their barn across the street mooing at us instead.
We kept wandering over the hill and down the other side where you get a great view of Zürich (and the mountains, when it's clear but today it was very hazy). You can barely make out the lake in the picture below but on really clear days this view is amazing:
There are lots of benches up at the top and a nice restaurant that we keep meaning to go to but never do ... the weather has to be nice so you have a good view or it's not worth it.
The two pictures above show a path with some hedges and buildings on either side of it. We should have taken pictures of these areas because they're garden plots. They're all over Zürich but up on this hill there are a few hundred and they have a killer view. Each plot has a shed, which some people use as a kitchen, and a small amount of land where you can garden and grow things. Some people were having barbecues while we were walking by ... you can set up a little table and chairs on your plot too and have friends over and eat all the things you've grown. And look at the view these plots have!! I'd love to have one but Martin and I think these plots must be impossible to get and are just handed down from generation to generation within a family.
There are also deer up at the top ... I'm not sure why but there's a fenced in area filled with deer. Here I am entranced by them:
And here's the resident buck. They're not quite like the deer from the US but definitely very similar.
And that was our walk yesterday.
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