A quiet - but very productive - day

It was strange to wake up today without Lynn around - I miss her a lot already, and she's only been gone since yesterday! :-(  Fortunately, I didn't have much time to brood about it this morning, as I had to get to the office by 8am for another lesson in using the modeling tool.  I think I'm starting to get the hang of it.  Two hours later, Maxi and Mark spent some time working on business strategy, which Marc and I continued through lunch (Maxi had to leave for another appointment).

We took lunch at the brand new 'Hin und Weg Gare' in the brand new commercial extension of the Zurich Hauptbahnhof (main railway station).  Last time Lynn and I were in Zurich, we discovered the original Hin und Weg which, by coincidence, was located just a few blocks from our current apartment.  It was a little hole-in-the-wall cafe, but everything was quite delicious and reasonable.  Apparently, it took off in a big way, because now they have left their old location and expanded dramatically into two locations, one focused on catering, and the other this new 'Gare' retail location.  Here's a picture of one of their menu items, served in a signature glass canning jar:



Unfortunately, the new location, which just opened two weeks ago, is comparatively rather cold and sterile, with very little of the quaint touches we loved before.  Worse yet, they seem to favor very loud rock music which makes it difficult to chat.  Also, the food was rather mediocre.  I hope just is just due to 'birth pains', but now I feel a bit sad to have lost the charming original location to 'progress'.

After lunch I headed home to catch up on more correspondence and, of course, to update this blog :-)