>>Züri is one of the few cities where I feel more at home in the surrounding area than the city itself - there are nice places around Lake Zürich. And the Bale area is very nice - in my twens I often went to the Freiburg area for fun and sports, which is just a few minutes to drive to CH
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>If only i managed to understand them... and yes i do understand German. ;)

I was lucky enough that my parents decided to put me on skies in their vacation, so I learned whenever head was out of snow...
And in the wide range of german dialects there are a few which will literally make my skin crawl - Schwitzerdütsch is only hard on the throat ;-)