Claire Polders

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    Top Things to Do in Zurich: Personal Favorites

    On our last day in Switzerland, I look back at our lovely slow month in Zollikon / Zürich, knowing we will return to this spot in the future. Mostly because our good friend lives here and we’ve made some new…

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    The Swiss (II): Idiosyncrasies

    The Swiss may seem safe to the point of boring. They are organized, clean, polite. But when you look closer, beyond your first impressions, you may see idiosyncrasies demonstrating that the Swiss are quite human, like the rest of us.

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    Swiss Fountains: Pure and Free Water Wherever You Go

    The Swiss got many things right in their country. One of them is the presence of water fountains wherever you go. Some are simple stone receptacles engraved with the year of its construction. Others are more elaborate. What they all…

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    Slow Travel: The Enzenbühl Cemetery

    Today, on my slow-traveling walk, I ambled into the Friedhof Enzenbühl (aka Friedhof Rehalp or the Enzenbühl Cemetery). The Swiss, apparently, like to pair their dead with art. This graveyard is a sculpture garden. A treasure.

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    The Pfannenstiel Trail above Lake Zurich

    Today we hiked the Pfannenstiel Trail from Forch to Meilen, the one we’d planned to take last Wednesday. We made it to the Rehalp S-Bahn stop this time without getting distracted and purchased tickets that proved to be the wrong…

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    Slow Travel: Botanical Garden Zürich

    We visited the Botanical Garden in Zürich on the last day of winter. We were supposed to go on a semi-serious hike. The sky was clear blue and the almost spring sun warm on our faces. I had my mountain…

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About Me

  • ‣ Born in: Gouda, the Netherlands
  • ‣ Currently in: Vietnam
  • ‣ Arrived from: Malaysia
  • ‣ Next destination: Unknown
  • ‣ Writing online since: 2005
  • ‣ Novels Published: 5
  • ‣ Current projects: a memoir on elder abuse, a multi-generational novel about the dark Dutch colonial past, and two short prose collections

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