I know it may not be the best idea to start a blog with a post on Red Light District, but I don't believe in bad PR, so here is a snapshot of Zürich famous Langstrasse:
There are all kinds of tours in Zurich these days: art, winery, cheese, ethnic shop tours, Zurich airport tours and even Ghost walk with tales of historic executions and tragic suicides in the city. But I’ve never been on a guided (and I don’t mean guarded) tour along the notorious Langstrasse.
The group I am joining is organized by the English Speaking Club in Zurich and the tour starts from the Hauptbahnhof, the heart of Switzerland's banking capital, that divides the city into two very different worlds. It is like walking a high wire with the inclination to head south toward the glam shops of one of the most expensive boulevards in the world of vanity or to surrender to a spontaneous impulse for an edgier insight into the “other side of the tracks”.
Tonight we are heading exactly to this area, known as Zurich-West centers, starting from the public space of the train station, where the Tourist Information Office is. I’ve passed many farmers’ markets on this public terrain, but I never knew how much actually people actually pay to rent this space. The cost per day is 50 000 CHF.
