Little Things: Flea Market Kanzlei Zurich and Uetilberg

It was a fine weather over the weekend, with bright sunshine finally :) As you can see, the flowers have all started to bloom. Umm...the smell of spring...albeit a delayed one :)

Not to waste the day, we decided to visit a weekly flea martket at Kanzleistrasse 56 on Sat.

It's quite a big flea market with antique furniture, pictures, art objects, jewellery, watches, toys, old books (which you see on movies those found in the huge antique libraries), tools, clothings, shoes, household items, toys, etc. Am tempted to buy a pair of boots but the sizes are too big and bargaining is also another problem as most of them aren't fluent in English.

The flea market is located quite near to the street with night clubs and pubs, called Langstrasse (similar to our Geylang). As we were out in the morning, so we couldn't see much happening activities yet. We thought of exploring this part of the town at night during summer time to see how it's like.

You can find out more at this website Flohmarktkanzlei (in German thou) but you can copy and paste the entire para/page at the google translation website Google Translate have an idea what it is. This translation site is pretty useful. Thou not the very professional kind of translation but at least it gives you an idea of what it says.

We walked back to Paradeplatz (near Zurich's 'Orchard Rd') to get some stuff before we head off to the hill near ZW's (aka Uncle Tan) office called Uetilberg. On our way, we saw a procession of elephants on the street. Was reading the papers and knew that there would be a circus here. Didn't expect them to pass by here. So we followed them and took some pictures.

Left pony: Oh that piece of dung must be left by those big clumsy elephants...

Left pony: Euww.......and it stinks!

Does this remind you of the job you're doing right now? Clearing the shit left by others? ;p

If only our Orchard Rd can allow animals to parade on the streets. Hmm...I'm worried about the safety of the animals thou with our local kids who do all sorts of funny and sometimes violent actions to disturb the animals. Over here, the kids seem to be very used to their presence and leave them pretty much alone.

The crowd watching the feeding of the elephants.

Uetilberg

At the hill, we saw people taking casual strolls with their dogs, children, bikers, joggers and quite a number of paragliders there as well.

Cheeky Uncle Tan...

So relaxed huh...finally had his 'dreams come true' lying on a 'meadow field' ;>

Dreaming of his sheepdog and his herd of sheep... ...

The path leading to the mystical forest...

...where we met a tree spirit...

Water from the alps
Listening to the birds chirping, the sound of water flowing (minus the live firing), it was a therapeutic walk.

To rest, is to prepare one for the journey ahead.

We tried to take a picture of us in mid air but it turned out to be a hilarious one instead...we just couldn't catch the timing & were panting away after the various unsuccessful shots...and I think I've lost Uncle Tan's nose bridge of his sunglass here...oops...
I guess the elves or goblins could have taken it...

We've noticed a signboard and Uncle Tan went to ask a passer-by to explain what it says. It was a good 10 mins explanation where according to him, the signboard indicates that the patch of land by the side which had been fenced up has been polluted as a result of the live firing, and visitors are advised not to go there because of the pollution. If they insist, then they won't be responsible for any side effects they might develop.

We've heard gunshots during our walk and we wondered if there was a shooting range nearby. Uncle Tan told me if we are lucky enough, we could even see mousedeer but with gunshots, I doubt so. On his last visit where he took a stroll up after his lunch, he saw someone riding on a horse in a full horse riding gear.