Christmas must be around the corner.Yesterday we saw lots of chaps high up in the city, busying themselves with what looked like the beginnings of decorations.
I've heard that the main Bahnhofstrasse Christmas lights were changed last year, after many years of twinklies, to very modern, long, vertically hung, coloured fluoros, which run the length of the street.
In retaliation against the 'eye-sore', I'm told that local shops (read: Prada, Chanel, Cartier, H&M, FC Weber, etc etc - oh but it's a long street...) went overboard with twinkles, so I'm looking forward to a night-time visit closer to Christmas to see what the outcome of all this will be.
In the meantime, there was a fire last week in one of the medieval buildings on the East bank of the Limmat, which took out most of the building and a firefighter with it. The ruin was a strange sight to say the least, standing as it did amid the history-laden old-town, but also a reminder, I suppose, that all things pass.
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