Beautiful sunshine, hot weather and nothing to do. That’s how summer holidays should be, and that was exactly how my weekend was. I took Friday off as Katja, from Slovenia, came to visit me. We managed to walk from Dübendorf to Zürich, since we had nothing better to do. It took around 3 hours, but we did take the longest way possible, got lost, and stopped off at a shopping mall. There are many ways of getting blisters, and I think I’ve now sampled them all 
So not much happened during the weekend. There was a festival here in Dübi, but I only walked through it on Sunday morning, to see what was happening. There were food stalls, dance areas and even huge fair ground rides. People were dressed up in traditional Swiss costume and there was Swiss music playing. It was a pretty nice atmosphere, where the whole family would go out together and enjoy the community spirit. Very Swiss.
I kept walking and found myself a walking path up onto the mountains near Dübendorf. I just kept walking because I had absolutely nothing else to do and I didn’t want to stay in my room all day. I ended up in some village on the top and just walked along there until I got to Dübelstein, the castle ruins where I had a BBQ the first few weeks I was in Switzerland….was nice, except there was a kid taking a piss on the fire. Not sure I want to eat there again.
So I got back to my room late afternoon, with nothing really to do. I managed to tidy my room, do the laundry, sort out all the my draws and throw out a lot of paper. I sorted all my receipts into date order and added them up, before throwing them in the bin. I’ve spent around 500CHF at supermarkets so far. I just wonder how much has gone towards kebabs?! I’ve also been collecting all my train tickets, and there’s a lot of them, and I was going to through them away, but had this wonderful idea of maybe making a collage of them when I get back home, just to remind me where I’ve been.
So I was all bored, enjoying the summer heat (I think it was about 30°C outside) and decided to take an early night. It was so hot, I opened both windows and left a small gap in the door so I could get a nice draft. It was very nice, except for the first time I could really notice the traffic noise. Ok, I live right next to the train station, but I’ve never heard so many screeeach’s from the trains before, or noticed how loud fast trains are. And the number of drag races on my road! I think every other car had a modded muffler just so it can wake the entire village. I mean, the number of modded cars you find here in Switzerland is crazy. Back home, you would see one every now and then, but here, every other car is modded in some way. Ranging from a small sticker on the rear windscreen, or a few decals here and there, to full mean body kits, huge shiny alloys, loud exhausts and mad sound systems. Just crazy. I think they have too much Need for Speed Underground 
Love that game. It was a noisy night, let’s say, but I got to sleep eventually.
