Give Me Bananas

 

This weekend was so much needed and soooo good to the soul . I hope you had a good one too!

The past week has been insane indeed but I hope that everything will calm down a bit now.. starting with today! I actually have the day off and have to get lots done such as buying new running shoes, cleaning the apartment (!!), groceries shopping, making holiday plans with Simone…

I am really sorry that my posts have been so scarce but this will hopefully change asap .

 

Saturday’s plans were definitely cancelled as it was raining. Hiking just isn’t that much fun in this weather. So after some discussion we decided to go to Lucerne where we went to the IMAX, walked along the lake, went to a comics exhibition and then got on a boat where we played yahtzee for two hours. The boat ride was lovely, despite the awful weather..

 

We ended up in the very heart of Switzerland (you know, where they still yodel and such.. hehe kidding, sort of..). Afterwards we headed to Zurich for dinner.

Silvio’s brother knew a place and so we took the bus to nowhere and were wondering where on earth that restaurant was.

All of a sudden we found it: The greenhouse!

 

I’ve never been to such a cool restaurant in my life. It was literally in a greenhouse and looked like a jungle.

 

I got a plate full of veggies and rice and was a happy camper. (No pics though.. the lightning was awful!!)

 

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As you probably know, Sweden’s one of my favourite countries. Every year I’m thrilled when it’s time for the Sweden weeks. It offers an amazing programme such as great readings, viewings and concerts of Swedish films and bands, a special Swedish beer and so on.

On yesterday’s programme was a Swedish brunch at the Altes Tramdepot. I knew that we had to go there.

Unfortunately we arrived at the restaurant at 11:15am and only had 15 minutes left until the buffet closed. So we decided to load up our plates.

I’m horrible when it comes to buffets, especially when I don’t have much time.

I grabbed everything in sight…

 

Yes that was all for me. After eating the eggs and rösti I was full to the brim. Ha! Not much of a surprise huh? I think I ended up eating 2/3 of everything. Oh my god. that was WAY too much food.

Needless to say that I only had a salad for dinner.

 

This definitely wasn’t my best healthy eater behaviour but you should have seen this buffet, it was insane!

 

The weekend ended with an amazing Yann Tiersen concert. He played some of his most famous songs (from the film Amélie) very very differently (think: on a violin, synthesizer and guitar instead of the piano or the accordion). I loved that he gave the songs such a creative new twist!

 

 

Q: Weekend highlights??? Mine was the boat ride, brunch and concert. I feel really lucky

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