A special thank you to Peter Picht for his post-event hospitality! He gave me a tour of downtown Zurich. The weather was lovely. We stopped by H Schwarzenbach, a Swiss institution that offers an impressive array of chocolates, specialty coffee beans, teas, dried fruits and spices. I got to savor a chocolate beverage sweetened with cacao fruit juice. The baristas kindly offered me a sample of the juice, which tasted floral, mildly sweet, and pleasant.

We also visited Fraumünster Church to view Chagall’s stained glass windows. The Art Institute of Chicago, too, has its version of Chagall’s windows, and it was nice to see the different variations on a theme.

Finally, a part shot of the conference hotel featured an interesting ramp connecting the bedrooms in the hotel annex where I stayed. It reminded me of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum design in New York – another Chicago connection.