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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks a'b.

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Speaker 2: Mike Audley is our travel correspondent. He's here this morning,

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Speaker 2: killed her ki Old or Jack.

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Speaker 3: I have a question for you April Son and Suber today.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, how I feel about the Crusaders. Okay, Well,

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Speaker 2: here's the thing. Last week, and I think it's very

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Speaker 2: important when you are in the broadcasting slash punditory world

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Speaker 2: to own your eras and mistakes. Last week I was

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Speaker 2: speaking with Jason Pine and sort of in a very

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Speaker 2: sort of cocksure manner, dismissively spoke about more Una Pacific El. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and do you know what I thought last week? They

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Speaker 2: were outstanding. I thought they were incredible. I thought they

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Speaker 2: were deserved winners. And it wasn't that I was willing

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Speaker 2: them all or supporting them necessarily, but I didn't feel

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Speaker 2: poorly about them getting up on the Crusaders. This evening, however,

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Speaker 2: I am cautious the optimist God this afternoon, I'm cautiously

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Speaker 2: optimistic that the Crusaders will get up against the Druer

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Speaker 2: and SUV. But yeah, last week was a bit of

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Speaker 2: a shock, and the good thing about Super rugby this season.

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Speaker 2: Is it does feel like so many teams could win games?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I know it's the surprise results which actually build

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Speaker 3: interest in the whole competition.

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Speaker 2: Eight. Yeah, absolutely, it's good for the good for the competition,

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Speaker 2: I think when you get these kind of results. So,

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Speaker 2: and I'm very much looking forward to that. But from

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Speaker 2: Suva to Switzerland and you're focused on Zurich this morning.

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Speaker 2: It's sort of Switzerland's gateway city.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Is it worth a couple of nights?

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Speaker 3: I think so, Jack.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: What I love about Zurich airport is it's just so

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Speaker 3: blissfully stress free. So I was through all the bags

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Speaker 3: and border control faith within fifteen minutes. The train to

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Speaker 3: the city center just a ten minute ride. So it's

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Speaker 3: such a great introduction to Europe, you know, to shake

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Speaker 3: off the jet lag while you're soaking up the lake

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Speaker 3: and the mountains you're looking for hiding in those two

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Speaker 3: listing lanes of the medieval old town and happily, happily

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Speaker 3: nibbling on Swiss goodies. A great way to start a trip.

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Speaker 2: Well, speaking of Swiss goodies, it's in the German speaking

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Speaker 2: side of Switzerland, right, Does that mean that the sausage

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Speaker 2: is a bit of a culinary draw.

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Speaker 3: It is wildly popular. Yeah. The street food tradition of

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Speaker 3: Vorst is just like staple diet terra trip, particularly for lunch.

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Speaker 3: So in the old town I went to this fantastic

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Speaker 3: place called Borsteria by Hymns and Gordons, and it's a

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Speaker 3: part butcher shop and part deli that they do super cheap,

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Speaker 3: super spicy brut boss in a fluffy bun, really good

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Speaker 3: cheap and easy takeaways. The other thing I noticed about

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Speaker 3: Zurich is they really like white sausage, which they call

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Speaker 3: vice VORs, and they serve it with a sweet mustard

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Speaker 3: that is so good. And because Zurich is a very

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Speaker 3: walkable city, I just think Saucy's come your best friend.

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Speaker 3: You just snack away on those toossies. They'll keep you

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Speaker 3: going all day.

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Speaker 2: Nit I mentioned chocolate in Easter.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. Yeah. Take a stroll along barnhorf Strasser,

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Speaker 3: which is the swanky shopping street, and you've got to

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Speaker 3: pop into Cafe Springly, which is royalty in Zurich. They

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Speaker 3: are handcrafted chocolates. They are just exquisite works of art.

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Speaker 3: And of course the Easter chocolate displays at this time

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Speaker 3: of Yeah, Jack, next level, unbelievable. It's like a bespoke

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Speaker 3: art gallery in chocolate. And Zurich is also home to

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Speaker 3: Lint and you can visit their Home of Chocolate Interactive Museum,

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Speaker 3: which does a really good job actually just whipping you

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Speaker 3: through the whole story of Swiss chocolate making. You can

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Speaker 3: graze quite generously on the white and milk and dark

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Speaker 3: chocolates and best of all, the world's largest chocolate fountain,

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Speaker 3: which Gush's thirty feet high. I actually went standing below

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Speaker 3: it deck. I had visions of Augustus Globe. I was

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Speaker 3: going to say, yeah, the fountains pipe.

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Speaker 2: It does feel very wonkery, doesn't it. Yeah. Okay, So

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Speaker 2: when I think of Switzerland years I think of chocolate,

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Speaker 2: but I also think of FIFA is the FIFA museum

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Speaker 2: with a visit.

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Speaker 3: It is funny story. FIFA only opens this museum about

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Speaker 3: nine years ago, and it was because they got fed

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Speaker 3: up with pesky football fans like Jack Tame loitering in

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Speaker 3: the lobby of the FIFA world headquarters, so they opened

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Speaker 3: up a museum and they've actually done a really good job.

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Speaker 3: The original FIFA World Cup trophy is there, so that's

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Speaker 3: the one that was permanently awarded to Brazil after they

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Speaker 3: won the Cup for the third time in nineteen seventy.

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Speaker 3: They've got a replica of the current trophy, which contains

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Speaker 3: five kilograms of pure gold. It's estimated values of tower

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Speaker 3: only thirty five million New Zealand dollars. It's had itsane.

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Speaker 3: They've done a really good job with the interactive stuff.

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Speaker 3: So they've got this games gallery and I can only

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Speaker 3: describe it sort of like a gigantic pinball machine which

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Speaker 3: you find yourself in the middle of and you have

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Speaker 3: to test your kicking skills. But it's like a pinball

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Speaker 3: machine the way it works. It's so cool. But obviously

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Speaker 3: with all whites booking their place at the next World Cup, yeah,

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Speaker 3: this museum is definitely something to add to your checklist.

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Speaker 2: What is behind all the buzz in Zurich West.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a really interesting contrast to old world Zurich.

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Speaker 3: So Zurich West was once a very scruffy industrial district

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Speaker 3: and it's just been transformed. So you've got old factories

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Speaker 3: that have been repurposed as theaters, shipyards and their art galleries.

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Speaker 3: In fact, the old viaduct, the old railway viaduct has

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Speaker 3: now got art spaces housed inside the arches of the viaduct,

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Speaker 3: which is pretty trippy to walk along. Best of all,

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Speaker 3: Prime Tower is here, So this is the thirty five

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Speaker 3: story skyscraper, Switzerland's tallest, and that just gives you the

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Speaker 3: most awesome treat across Zurich's rooftops, the lake, the snow

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Speaker 3: coated peaks beyond. So yeah, take it all and over

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Speaker 3: a drink or two at Clouds Bar, it finds out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some really sort of quirky festivals too, don't

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Speaker 2: they They do.

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Speaker 3: I think it's that German side to them, you know,

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Speaker 3: weird of humor. First of all, in August they have

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Speaker 3: this massive street parade, which is considered Europe's biggest peace celebration,

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Speaker 3: so it's a real hippie fest. Millions go to it.

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Speaker 3: But I'm actually a little bit disappointed. I'm not going

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Speaker 3: to be in Zurich at the end of April because

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Speaker 3: in a couple of weeks time, the whole city grinds

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Speaker 3: to a halt for this weird ritual they call Sexlutin

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Speaker 3: and it looks like Groundhog Day in the States. So

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Speaker 3: it involves seetitting on fire, a giant straw snowman who's

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Speaker 3: called the boog, and the time it takes for the

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Speaker 3: boob's head to explode it indicates whether it's going to

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Speaker 3: be a good summer. Apparently the word is theriritten for

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Speaker 3: a long, warm summer.

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Speaker 2: Jack, Yeah, my goodness, that's quirky to say the least. Hey,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much, Mike really appreciate that. We'll make

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Speaker 2: sure all of your tips for a stopover in Zurich

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Speaker 2: are up on the News talk's 'B website. Travel safe

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Speaker 2: and catch you soon. Thank you. Jack.

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