189

Zürich, Switzerland.

1 June 2014, 21:21.

30 hours since 188.

Walking around Züri was proving to be quite the windfall for the 444 project. This evening found us on Röntgenstrasse, after having met a hodge podge of Sal’s friends at a birthday party BBQ, playing backgammon and discussing baseball with Americans and of course bumping into a Swede. It happens often. Sal took us on an unintentional grand walking tour of Zürich in search of the correct tram. After the failed jumping photo, CC Top informed the rest that Röntgen was the person who discovered X-Rays, and so the process is named after him in Swedish. If you break you leg in Sweden, you go into the hospital to röntgas rather than get an X-Ray.

After finding and catching the correct tram just two stops, we arrived to the sounds of The Rolling Stones. They were playing the Letzigrund, Züri’s big football stadium and there’s a whole mini-industry set up around providing food and drinks to those wanting to listen outside rather than pay big monies to see the stage. As we walked off the tram, Mick and Keith and the boys fired up Sal’s favourite Stones song, just for her. Our memory is fogged by wine, but perhaps the song is Like A Rainbow.

Once the Stones finished, we followed the masses around the streets, found a service station to buy more wine and snacks, and went on to another of Sal’s friends for an after-party. The bad attitude was wearing off. CC Top remembers there being Maltesers, and that she ate almost the whole packet. The night finished with us doing our best Usain Bolt impersonation for the last bus of the night…only we ran about 1000m not 100. CC Top in Birks. Perhaps drunk. We saw the bus through an opening between buildings and still had plenty of ground to make up, luckily it got slightly delayed on a roundabout and we dashed across into the closing rear doors. Great Success!

188

Zürich, Switzerland.

31 May 2014, 15:49.

20 hours since 187.

This day was a Saturday. We went to Sal’s regular flea market without Sal, cause she was sleeping after exhibition opening night gala party. We found a 1-cup mini stovetop coffee maker, a hippy linen shirt for Schurn, a long yellow t-shirt for CC Top, a long sleeve t-shirt for Schurn, an old man/hipster (who can tell the difference) white-spotted brown vest for Schurn, and a scarf for CC Top which she didn’t buy cause the seller wanted too many Swiss Francs.

We then went home to Sal’s and woke her up for breakfast/lunch, then went back to the market and bought the scarf for the correct price, and continued on to meet Sal’s friend Nina so we could travel out into the countryside to collect their new spaceship shaped roadtrip van, Lolita. It was on the way to the rendezvous where 188 found us three and Sal’s Dutch friend Pieter.

When we got back to the city we had a bad attitude and went to bed. Sal partied.