During Street Parade there are numerous boats on Lake Zurich and the Limmat river and here is the police boat checking if everything is Ok.

Some years ago I lived in Freiburg, Germany. It is a beautiful city and I really enjoyed my time there as student. In Switzerland there is also a city called Freiburg and there are many stories of people, especially tourists or foreign students, mistakeningly taking the train to the wrong city. I am glad I never made that mistake because they are several hours apart. I had never visitited the Swiss Freiburg which is also called Fribourg as it is a biingual city (French/German) until this weekend. I participated in a wonderful hike from Tafers to Fribourg. It is impressive to enter the city this way. Fribourg is also a beautiful old city as you can see from this picture.

House in Ballenberg

We spent a day at the Swiss Outdoor Museum Ballenberg the other day. It is one of my favorite places to take pictures in Switzerland, mainly because there are so many old things to take pictures of - and after portraiture my favorite subject is "old stuff", preferably ruins of some sort, not from the middle ages but abandoned houses and things from modern times.

Sunset in St. Moritz

We arrived in beautiful weather but it started to get dark pretty quickly so we had hurry out to get pictures of the sunset. And what a view!

Zurich is not just a beautiful city by day, also by night or actually evening because the lights that light up the churches are turned off at 11pm.