Panda to Sochi: Day 3

FYI.

This story is over 5 years old.

Travel

Panda to Sochi: Day 3

Waking up in Geneva, looking for good spots to ride and thinking about swiss fondue. All that happened but moreover I suddenly became Pippi Langstrumpf. Check it out!

Travelling from Geneva to Zurich /// Fondue dinner with some great Swiss /// The Mighty Outdoor Bowl /// An MTV-like Welcome by Zurich's Squatting Scene

The Boys wake up in the morning and start to think about good spots in the world to ride. (and brutally share their thoughts with me) Truly athletics! I feel like they can ride everything, even a simple wall. This is what makes sports so special, you never get bored, no matter where you are—you could rock it.

Advertisement

And Zurich itself is a massive street skate park with good cheese and relaxed people.

One year ago they built a bicycle outdoor skate bowl. So while the boys where doing the bowl, I was lucky enough to fall in love with the squatting scene of the city.

I was very impressed by that kind of living and attitude of the squatter I met. (Side fact: in my opinion, crime is always a matter of point of view.) I tell you what happened: blonde Pippi Langstrumpf (myself) met a kind of modern Rio Reiser with swiss accent (Mark, the squatter). I got a sort of personal MTV Cribs tour through the squatters mansion. Many people with various life stories live there since one year and make their dream come true. I am writing this being very impressed by the idea of squatting, while I am chilling in my white blanked bed of the hotel. It is a clash I have to admit.

But this time it was the first time I thought about staying and quit my road trip.

What made me stay? Cheese fondue!

What really made me stay? Cheese fondue and the fact that the squatter have conferences where they decide on the new members. It was not possible today, haha. #Binz

So I rather went to meet very lovely people from Zurich‘s hip scene and they invited us to a cheese fondue tent surrounded to enjoy „spicy-chääs“, „beer&bacon-chääs“, „cheese-chääs“ and „chilli-chääs“. „Welcome to Frau Gerolds Winter-Stube“—go there and dip everything you have in the fondue, it‘s worth it.

Advertisement

Over and Out.

Use and abuse our hashtag #pandatosochi

Whatsapp us / Call us or prank us here: 0043 660 525 0162

We still have plenty of give aways of Nokia, Nitro und Beats by Dr. Dre waiting just for you!

Catch us if you can.