A Clock by Any Other Name

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OK, so Switzerland has a little clock problem...no wait, that's a REALLY BIG clock problem! Everywhere you go, clocks, clocks, clocks. On building, on sidewalks, in flowerbeds. Every room in every building, restaurant, hotel has multiple clocks. But, that's not the weird thing....no, the weird thing is that EVERY SINGLE CLOCK IS SYNCHRONIZED. Not one is even a minute off. It's just plain freaky.

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Of course, we would later find out that this was a great thing, as once you get to Italy not only aren't the clocks synchronized, sometimes even the calendar days are different. In Switzerland every single train is on time to the minute...every store opens and closes to the minute...Swiss people also have their morning constitutional at 7:13am to the minute (it causes quite a water pressure problem daily).

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Other than that little clock thing, Zurich was a marvelous city....fewer smokers, clean, far less graffitti than plagued the rest of Europe, incredibly polite and friendly people, and, although like Germany they had nothing that actually resembled meat, they at least had awesome cheese. Lots and lots of awesome cheese. Cheese for breakfast; cheese for lunch; cheese for dinner. Kind of a lactose intolerant fairlyland.

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I could live in Switzerland; cheese and clocks, doesn't get any better than that.

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Yodaladeoh Lumpy out