The beginning of July has been incredibly hot, July 14 it was 37°C. In Zürich there are currently only two options to survive the heat. Either you go swimming in the lake or the river or you hide in an air conditioned public place. The two upper pictures are from Badi Mythenquai by the lake if you chose the first option and the last two pictures are at Sihlcity where yo can go for the second option, namely afternoon cinema. Sihlcity has a really big american style cinema palace where each toilet has its own little screen showing film trailers.
I'm not sure if it is the heat that has soften my brain so much that I couldn't make myself turn on the computer or if it is the World Cup in football (soccer) that anyway made it impossible for any real news to get through. For a person who is not the slightest interested in football it was easier just to shut down all external information and just worry about how to kill Spanish slugs (or killer snails as we call them in Sweden) and whether or not the dengue fever is really coming to Europe as a consequence of the global warming.
The thing currently dominating the news is the corruption scandals in France which is rather difficult to care about unless you are actually French. It is quite peculiar to see a country where people in general are so politically engaged that the politicians are so far away from the people (the "small people" as a particularly unpopular swede would have expressed it). But on the other hand, as the French goes on strike for about anything these days, what means are left when something really happens? That was by the way the most funny thing that happened during the World Cup, not even there the French could deny their true nature and the French national team went on strike during the competition. What other team in the world could ever have come up with such an idea?
