A few days ago I read
about the Sunday phenomenal in my little red Swiss book, a gift from my fiance. And oh how I could
forgot about it after over a year out of Switzerland..
I remembered my first
weeks in Switzerland… I went out on Sunday to sight seeing and shop like I used
to all my life. Then I realized that they closed the shops!! It’s Sunday, the
shopping and hang out day and they closed the shops, most of the restaurants
and even Supermarkets!!!!! How could they???
Well it took me a few
months to get used to it and still dislike the quite Sunday. And it’s one of
the things that make me miss Asia or the States. The shops there are almost
24/7. And yes you can find anything, and everything you need/want.
The choices of shops
and restaurants in Switzerland is limited as what that I came to notice with
time as well.. Yes they have Asian food, but not the nice decent Asian food.
And how about other global type of chain restaurants?? It seems that most of
them haven’t find Switzerland yet. Nice decent Asian food is the 70% of my ‘missing
the life in the other part of the world’. Coz really, you could get a nice
decent Asian food in the States, why not here? And cooking by myself is not as
easy as said, the ingredients itself is not that easy to obtain and usually it’s
pretty expensive too. What is it that’s not expensive in this country?
And the ridiculous
part is, on Sundays.. shops are not the only things that didn’t offer their
services on Sundays, but also machines.. Yup that would include the ‘do yourself
washing machine’ in your apartment or the photo booth in the train station.
Yes.. I think they put machines as humans too and they need a one day off/week
to maintain their work and life balance.
All things said…. Switzerland
has it’s own charm on me. Perhaps it is the beautiful scenery that I woke up to
every day, or the amazing cleanliness of the country, or my freedom that I can
go anywhere without much permission from my family. Or maybe all that, and
certainly that my other half is there too, and no questions about it, I miss
Swiss.
But knowing that I’ll
start a new chapter of my life there next year.. I know what I’m going to miss…..
the variety of food, items and services that I won’t be able to have there, and
especially not on Sundays!!
