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The James Joyce Foundation One of the greatest works of English literature, Ulysses was written by James Joyce in Zürich during wartime exile (1915 – 1919). The James Joyce Foundation hosts regular public readings in English every week of both this novel and Finnegan’s Wake. |
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Museum of Fine Arts Zürich’s Museum of Fine Arts is looking better than ever, with its rich collection of Alberto Giacometti stick-figure sculptures and other 19th- and 20th-century art. Swiss artist is also represented at the museum and late openings on Tuesday through Thursday make it ideal for a stroll before dinner. |
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Design Museum The exhibitions at Zürich’s Design Museum are consistently impressive. The curators take such a broad interpretation of their brief that they have covered everything from Bollywood’s love affair with Switzerland to dendrites – tree-like structures found throughout nature. |
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Partying at Club Supermarket Supermarket is Zürich’s number one club – although smaller than the name might suggest, it boasts three cosy lounge bars around the dance floor and an interesting roster of DJs play house music. Watch out for the ‘Super-yellow’ nights in particular. |
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Marveling at the views from Uetliberg Spend a half-day taking the train up to Uetliberg (23 minutes) for excellent hiking and panoramic views. From there you can take a panoramic two-hour Planetenweg (Planetary Path) running along the mountain ridge overlooking the lake to Felsenegg. En route you pass models of the planets in the solar system. |
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Drinking and enjoying at Café Schober Café Schober is a kitsch, fairy-tale grotto of a café, with huge bouquets of flowers tied with ribbons to ceiling arches. Schober serves a serious hot chocolate, made from real schoggi instead of cocoa powder, and is definitely not to be missed. |
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Swiss specialties In a huge, atmospheric beer hall, Zeghauskeller’s menu offers 20 different kinds of sausages in eight languages, as well as numerous other Swiss specialties of a carnivorous and vegetarian variety. Open from 11:30am to 11:30pm every day and most mains are Sfr15-30. |
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Eat and drink in the dark at Blindekuh Blindekuh (Blind Man’s Bluff) remains a truly unusual restaurant, where you eat and drink in total darkness. Run by people with impaired vision as a means of sharing their experience, this restaurant is booked out for months but lunch reservations are possible – as are picking up last-minute cancellations. |
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Extravagant Seidenspinner A favorite with the fashion crowd (it’s attached to a leading fabric design shop), Seidenspinner boasts an extravagant interior, with huge flower arrangements and shards of mirrored glass covering the walls. Russian stroganoff and borsch stand out on a modern international menu. |
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