My First Full Day In Switzerland - A Walking Tour Of Zurich / Eating Swiss Sausage & Record Shopping
Zurich Switzerland Dec 2025
Transcript
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Today's adventure begins
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as a bird flies by peeking out my window
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in Switzerland as the recording of this
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Monday,
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December 8th,
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2025.
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I am in Switzerland.
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Zurich,
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Switzerland.
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You see some of the
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mountains in the distance. See a top of
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a cathedral of some sort.
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very cloudy day.
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Yesterday when I arrived, very stormy,
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very rainy,
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and it looks like today is going to be
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similar to that. But at the moment,
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at the moment there's no rain. I'm
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heading down to meet up with the tour
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group to get some information about the
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the town I'm in.
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Welcome everyone. Adam Dwoo here. I'm
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inviting you to join me in Switzerland,
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shall we?
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Feels great out here.
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That little sculpture right there is
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someone by the name of Alfred Cher.
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Going over into the train station where
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the meeting point, according to the
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information I got, the tour I paid for
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is said to be. Tour starts at 11:00.
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Supposed to be there a few minutes
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prior. I still got 28 minutes till the
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tour technically begins. So,
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strut around inside the train station.
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this magnificent building. This huge
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building in here. Huge,
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which I will be utilizing during my
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duration
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here in this country. It's nice. The
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hotel's just right across from the main
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train station. A massive chandelier up
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there all decorated for the holidays.
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It's a chandelier of Christmas lights.
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Ah, I love a good Coca-Cola
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advertisement.
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And when I think of Coca-Cola, I think
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of Americana, obviously driving through
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the South and seeing all the Coca-Cola
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ads, you know, ghost signs spray painted
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and faded on the side of brick walls.
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But check out Santa here guzzling one in
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I like that.
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Also like this piping high caffeinated
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beverage.
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I might get a Coca-Cola later though.
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That may have tempted me. But for now,
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coffee. I believe this is the right spot
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that the email told me to go to the
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welcome center here.
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>> There it is. Monday 11:00 a.m.
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Zurich or Zuri. Taxi driver said last
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night some people pronounce it Zuri or
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Zurich or Zurich. 11:00 a.m. This is the
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meeting spot. Little stay warm cap. Oh,
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here's a quiz that I would fail
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miserably at because I know absolutely
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nothing yet. But hopefully after the
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tour, I'll know a couple spots.
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I'll keep cool and keep warm depending
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on what time of the year what the
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temperature is.
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last night before I checked in my hotel
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or after I checked in my hotel, walked
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around a little bit
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and while I was walking around, I
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noticed one of these driving along the
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train tracks and Santa was driving it.
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Pretty sure it was one of these. Not the
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ornament version, but the real life
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version.
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A little roar.
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Wow, they got some they got their
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merchandise on point here.
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>> Switzerland magnets. I'm probably going
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to need a Switzerland magnet.
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Maybe a Zuri magnet.
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It would be kind of neat to purchase one
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of these Swiss Army knives just because
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>> it would just make sense being here in
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Switzerland. I don't know if you could
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take these on a plane back on a plane
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though, right? Look at this thing.
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That is a That is the mother load right
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there. That's a good one. You know, I
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figure since I'm still waiting a little
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bit, I might as well get one of the
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magnets that are over in here. Maybe one
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or two magnets.
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Little cuckoo clock right there. Another
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cuckoo clock. You got the fondue and the
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cheese. You got these cows.
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You got the
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assortment of different items. I love
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Switzerland. It's pretty cool, too. Feel
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like I should get this because obviously
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I'm staying here. All right, the tour is
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beginning. Kind of in the middle of it.
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There's probably 20 people behind me and
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10 in front of me. Pretty good size
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group. And the guide is doing an English
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tour and in German as well. So, she's
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doing the narration in both.
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I feel really doesn't remind you because
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they're really popular from somewhere in
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the Europe in Europe.
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Yes.
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>> From Paris. Yes. Exactly. from the Arct
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because 179
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came from Switzerland and he brought the
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idea of the French Revolution with him
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and that was the very slow beginning of
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the democrat here in Switzerland and uh
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that's why Zurich wanted to be a big
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city like Paris with many things from
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there she's pronouncing the second trade
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station 1871 they said we also want to
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have such a nice building like the field
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in
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very important he like the basis for the
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business place in our days. So he was
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not only businessman, he was also
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politician. He was right in the national
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house,
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>> right? That statue is the railway king.
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Everybody knows he was
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>> she was saying that he was the king of
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the railway here in Switzerland.
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He was loved by many and disliked by
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many. Very powerful man, she was saying.
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And a lot of his businesses, he had a
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lot of insurance businesses as well. and
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the the sculpture in front of the train
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station that he's known for, you know,
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creating all the railway railways here,
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but he's also facing his businesses that
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he created
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that are down here. The the buildings
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that he created are down here as well.
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So, he's facing towards his businesses
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as well from the Paris
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like it's a little bit smaller but very
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famous. It's one of the most amazing
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streets in the world. Remember when you
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go shopping, the closer you get to the
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lake than your favorite part.
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And at the moment we have a not now but
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in the afternoon with John again for the
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Christmas illumination. It's called
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Lucy. We love it so much. That's
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inspired by the song Lucy.
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These are around 12 kilome steel rope
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hanging above the mar and 11,500
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landed by a city wall. Just for you
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information where we are that's the
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railway station. It's out of the city
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hall. We are still outside of the city
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hall approximately here.
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>> And the entrance to the end that's on
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our left. There's a little time between
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the English narration and the German
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narration. Trying to show some of the
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stuff here. This is John Heinrich
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Pastellazi.
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Passed away in 1827. She was saying that
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Zurich wanted to be Paris. So, it was
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kind of set up in a lot of ways like
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Paris is. And the inspiration for the
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train station came from Paris.
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We live in he lived approximately 100
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years before in the 18th century
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>> founder of the school system
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>> and uh that means that didn't believe
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anymore everything but
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and he founded also new system how to
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teach because until this time the goal
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was to attract people
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>> singing Christmas was too small by the
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time and that's why they moved it here.
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So you have to imagine there are kids
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standing in there. They have their red
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heads and they're looking like and uh
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there is a time there. It's not 5:30
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6:30 and they're singing for 15 20
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minutes. It's really cute. So you should
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if you are here have a look at the
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singing Christmas tree.
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wasn't the river.
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>> The problem was that house in the corner
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because that building was built on a
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hill and now the way the main entrance
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is
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and this is an important building was
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the main police installation of the city
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sur. This building here at one time she
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was saying was a prison and an orphanage
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and they realized it's probably not good
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to have an orphanage in a prison
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combined and they move the orphanage.
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I think the group's more like 30. I
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think it said 50. It was more like 30
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people.
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Oh, look at this cow.
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it goes the arrow goes into the river
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line and I'm here to the sea
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>> and if you believe me or not one of the
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hobbies of the citizen is swimming. Have
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you been here yesterday?
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normally from the lake to the main train
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station because of the boat traffic, but
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afterwards we have a nice river. It's
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called Blacken and you check in.
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>> Okay, I have a question for you as well.
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How many fountains do we have in the
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whole city? What do you think? You can
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make competitions here if you want.
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>> 2,000.
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>> 2,000. She said uh 650.
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>> not so bad could be worse. [laughter]
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We have almost,300
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fountains in the whole city sur and
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>> all the water here is completely
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drinkable.
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So any of the thousand plus fountains
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you just grab a grab a cup or just sip
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it from the fountain. If it's not
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drinkable, there will be a sign. If
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there's no sign, everything is
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Oh, these pigeons. Pigeons and
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fountains.
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Make nice pictures. I explained it in
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truth.
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>> [laughter]
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>> I'm sure it's
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I don't know what startled them, but
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man, they swooped off.
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startled me so much that my finger was
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on the stop record button.
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>> Everyone up here kind of let out a
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little bit of a scream.
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>> Flew over everyone's head quickly.
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>> The Hitchcock would be proud
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>> or Mary Poppins feed the birds. Tuppets
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a bag.
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I guess pigeons would be more Mary
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Poppins
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than Hitchcock.
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Jer flying poop and the building on the
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left hand side you can see with the
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brown poop underneath that's the
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president of technology
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and that's the main building on the
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right side behind the church now the
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operating church that's the university
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and these are only the two main many
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many
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Einstein Einstein he was student and
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later on as well professor at
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Einstein was a professor here
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>> was the second university in Europe
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where study the first one that was in
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Portman one in Paris and the second one
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here in Sur was in the 1870s.
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I don't know in which you're staying
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just in case you're not staying in one
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of the luxury hotels I show you now
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where you could stay next time you see a
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little bit more right hand side gray
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building in front of the forest. Not
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very nice, not a nice one. It's the
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right hand side of the crane. Can you
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see it? And up in the forest on the
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right uh side up it's a uh green spire
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in the forest and that's the dol grand
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hotel that's a one of the luxury hotels
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we have
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>> and I see the mountains showing up city
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halls underneath Switzerland
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>> the cathedral chapel over there
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>> this is our ski area with within
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approximately 1 hour we are there and
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you cannot see the mountains all the
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time it depends a little bit on the
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better. Yesterday morning you could see
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them very well. Then it started raining
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and they disappeared.
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>> You have questions for the viewers?
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>> Yes, she just repeated Einstein studied
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at the university up there. That's
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pretty cool.
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>> Church bell ringing right there in the
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center of the screen.
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>> [bell]
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>> I don't know.
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foreign.
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It has
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>> it has a very big clock face.
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>> Unfortunately, you cannot say anymore
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the biggest clock face in Europe.
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>> I will ask our biggest clock face in
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Europe.
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>> Amen.
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>> E on a tower.
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I think 110 years ago there was a fire
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watcher sitting up there where you see
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small windows above the clock face and
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he was watching every night every
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quarter
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if there was a fire. If there was a fire
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somewhere he drew a fire horn held out
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the red light in the direction where the
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fire was so that the city in which
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direction
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was a little bit annoying.
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>> So here I want to tell you a little bit
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about the guilt because uh guilt the
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were and are very important as I guilt
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is to stop. So and I come back to the
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date 128
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sur.
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So they wanted to rule themselves and
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they moved the center of power from the
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Lindon wall down here to the Land and
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they did the first city hall. This is
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already the third version but at the
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same place and uh the idea was that the
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citizen they rule themselves but as
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always some families took over and the
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others they didn't have any political
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rights and that changed only 1336
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with Rudolf Rudolf he gave all the
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handiccraft guilds which already exist.
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This is a steep cobblestone here.
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But when we talk about the dog, we mean
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the whole street and all streets inside.
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And this is the street where you should
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talk.
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There are a lot of restaurants and
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parks. And as I promised you, I show
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you.
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My god, there's so many fountains.
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So evidently ass here means eating
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eating bar.
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100 years ago, this was the refugee
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area. I mean, I have to say where the
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trees are, there were uh houses and it
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was narrow and dark and it was not yet
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so nice here. And also this nice decided
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without any air conditioning. So, it was
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quite stinky here and it was also the
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prosecution area. That's why it was
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cheap here. That's why the refugees they
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could stay here. And I have to was not
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in the first not in the second.
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>> This is a refugee area and linen
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>> that linen lived in.
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>> She also said this was used as a a
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butcher area and there was no air
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conditioning obviously so the area is
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very smelly.
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>> as you saw probably, it's also famous
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for its nice decoration. It's not only
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during Christmas time.
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decorated over the year and there was a
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new tra and some
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other shop I want to show you is behind
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you it's a familyowned shop it's called
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they have a huge range of spices tea
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dried fruits and so on and what's really
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special they roast twice a week uh
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coffee here and when they roast coffee
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here exactly here you don't smell it
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they have a good ventilation and they
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spread it all over the eat it. And this
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are the coffee beans in the shop. And if
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you prefer coffee in liquid form, they
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have also coffee bar beside it. And as
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you know,
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Can you see also a cheese restaurant
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which can't make this very very I mean
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it already can smell the cheese when we
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are passing and
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in Geneva. It was again another one. It
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was
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our
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swing. Swinging. He came on the 1st of
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January 15
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and already found no decorations in the
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20th century. They decided to make the
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churches a little bit more comfortable.
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That means they decorated the windows.
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The most famous windows around
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the church. They are decorated by
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Marshagal the French Russian artist. And
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because of Shagal windows, but they
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don't ask me. So that's all right.
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Okay.
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>> All right. Twoour tour completed. That's
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pretty good.
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Got a little preview or a little bit of
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history of the town of the city.
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Just some of the water fowl that can be
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seen around here on the lake or the
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river.
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kind of craving some fondue and sausage
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now. She was talking about how fondue
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cheese dish is very popular here. She
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also said there's a certain sausage they
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have in Switzerland is pretty good. So,
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see if I can find either of those.
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Either or both of those.
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All right.
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>> There's a pizza place.
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and crust we trust. This kind of has
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like a retro vibe to it almost
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the neon
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sign there.
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Hey, I need some cheese and sausage.
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Yeah, this would be the place to grab a
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bite to eat. Lots of restaurants,
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places to grab a snack. Christmas market
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in full effect.
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Oo,
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not 7-Eleven, but 7day shop. It's almost
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like a 7-Eleven, but it's a 7-day shop.
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Very similar convenience store style.
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I've heard of KFC, obviously. Kentucky
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Fried Chicken. Well, what about ZFC?
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Zurich fried chicken,
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not KFC.
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I don't know if Colonel Sanders had
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anything to do with this one, but they
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are definitely utilizing the ZFC.
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Zurich fried chicken.
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One thing I've noticed about KFC is they
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are very popular in international
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countries, not just the US. Very, very
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popular.
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There might be a KFC here, but there's
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definitely a ZFC. All right. Sat down at
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this place called Restaurant
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Brazeri
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Johannier.
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set 1901. I asked if they had fond do
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with this one. They said no. But they do
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have
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some sausage. So, I'll go with sausage.
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And then maybe another day that I'm
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the day that I'm here, I'll do some
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fondue. Or maybe later I'll get fondue.
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I'll get fondue at some point while I'm
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here.
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I'll have to ask though because I'm not
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really sure the menu what the menu is.
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>> Feel classics, pork classic, beef
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classic,
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Yeah, I don't really know what any half
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the stuff is. I know what a schnitle is,
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but
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spicy salami.
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Club sandwich.
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>> Cheese dishes. They have some kind of
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cheese dish. Cheese sandwich.
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Have to ask the waiter.
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>> Here we go. Broughtwurst.
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And these are the two magnets I got
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earlier.
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I got one of
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Oh, it's it's almost stuck to the table
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because the table's made out of metal.
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But I got one of Zurich and I got the
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cuckoo clock.
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They wrapped them up in the little
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bubble wrap, but I unwrapped it to show
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it in the video.
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And actually, I sat down and asked for a
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table and then I said, "You have fondue,
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right?" And they said, "No, we don't
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have fondue at this one." So that's why
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I'm not that's why I'm just going to do
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the sausage. But there will be fondue on
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my agenda. But I just didn't make any
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sense to get back up after they seated
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me.
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All right, this is what we're dealing
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with. Doesn't come on a bun.
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>> Doesn't come with mayo or mustard or any
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kind of items like that. The guide was
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saying that it's frowned upon,
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at least in this city, maybe all of
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Switzerland, to put condiments like
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ketchup and mustard on a sausage. And
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look at this. Almost looks like an
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omelette, right?
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You got the like fries, like almost like
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home fries kind of style. I don't know
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what kind of sauce that's going to be.
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That's like grilled onions
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mixed out in there.
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Yeah. I don't know if this and a fondue
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might have been too much, but
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take a bite.
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That's warm. All right. I got to admit
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the sausage is pretty good.
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The sauce here, I don't I don't know.
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Not too keen on the sauce, but the
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sausage is good and the onions are good
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and the potatoes are good.
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All right, that was pretty good. The
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sauce I was trying to describe was
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actually gravy. I don't know why the
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word eluded me at the time, but it
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wouldn't be something I would add to my
35:04
normal eating repertoire,
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but it was good.
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I was in Rome earlier on this trip. Was
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about a week ago, maybe longer than a
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week now. I'm losing track. a couple
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weeks ago. Had a couple win in Rome food
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moments and I just had a win in
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Switzerland moment. I still need to get
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some fondue though, but probably not
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today. I'm pretty full from from that
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sausage and those potatoes, but who
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knows? Maybe later, but at some point,
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get my cheese fondue on.
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And evidently, they filmed a couple
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scenes from the Born Identity Matt Damon
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right through here.
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Not a lot of the movie, but I guess just
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a couple scenes
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were here in Zurich. And evidently, as I
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was looking it up,
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almost all of the TV movie starring
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Richard Chamberlain back in 1988, which
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I got to be honest, I've never seen.
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Maybe I need to look that up and watch
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it. There are more scenes from that
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version
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here in this city than the Matt Damon
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one, even though there are some Matt
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Damon. Couple Matt Damon clips here. So,
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I got to look up that TV version. Sounds
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I'm going to find a record store. I got
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a record I want to buy or
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a record from a band I want to buy.
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Hopefully, they have one. One thing I
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like to do when I'm in certain areas,
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certain countries, certain cities,
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places are buy albums from bands from
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those areas. and the Thrash Doom heavy
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metal band.
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Celtic Frost is from here.
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Hellhammer, the band that was before
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that, they broke up and then started
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Celtic Frost. They also started here.
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And I looked up to see where maybe some
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of the spots around town, you know,
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where they maybe started the band and
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practice and things were. And I guess
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their original practice space has been
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changed and progress has taken over and
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that whole building's been taken down.
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But I thought, how cool would it be
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to maybe buy either a Hellhammer album,
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which are probably pretty hard to find,
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and probably more common would be the
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band that followed up, Celtic Frost, the
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bigger of the two bands. Yeah. But
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they're from here. They're from Zurich.
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So, if I can grab one of those albums,
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be kind of a nice little souvenir to
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take home, listen to once I'm back home,
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finally. This is the largest city in the
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entire country
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by far. 450,000
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people, give or take, live here.
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Think the fire department's out
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doing something.
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Oh, there's a thrift store over here,
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too.
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All the houses up on the hillside there.
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Very beautiful.
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River's a little muddy and dirty.
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Going at a pretty good pace though.
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So underneath all the scaffolding
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construction work, there's a record
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store called 00
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right over there. Right in that little
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cubby hole there.
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actually passed right by it because I
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didn't see it cuz it was so well hidden.
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It's like it has a lizard for its
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mascot.
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Zero zeros rare groove.
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The selection inside
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was awesome. Man, that place was packed
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full of a lot of kind of really rare
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stuff in all the different genres.
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Obviously, I don't have a lot of room to
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take a lot of stuff home, but they had
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two albums that I was looking for. They
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had them. The heavy metal section was
40:54
out of control. There was like bands in
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there. They were just like deep cut
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bands.
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Yeah. Zero zero.
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Highly recommend. Good place. Save the
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vinyl. And I got two albums. Let's show
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what I got.
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They only had one Celtic Frost, but it's
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a rare re-release of the original eight
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demos, which is kind of what I want. I
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kind of wanted some of their original
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stuff. So, I'll show show the albums I
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got. Here's the albums I ended up
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getting. Procreation of the Wicked and a
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Hellhammer. This
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is awesome. Sealed. Probably a
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re-release.
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Yeah. Re-released from 2020.
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>> That's the hotel I'm staying at. St.
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Goddard.
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G O T T H A R D.
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Staying.
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>> Actually, I don't know what side I'm
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staying on. I might be up there. I'm on
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the top floor. Well, the not the tippy
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top, but the one, you know, below the
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ceiling on the top floor. I think the
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fourth or fifth floor. See? Yeah. Fifth
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floor. And the taxi driver last night
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when I was going from the airport over
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here told me that St. Gddard
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still exists in the form of a tunnel.
42:22
They're saying something about like one
42:24
of the longest tunnels in the world
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was named after Goddard and that's where
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the correlation of this hotel comes in.
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Can't remember the distance of the
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tunnel he told me but it was very
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impressive the length of it.
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All right. Now I have my bearings a
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little better. The train station is
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right there.
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Right over there.
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And that's going to do it for today.
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Thanks for watching.
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I'll see you in the next video. The vlog