Wednesday, November 28, 2007

gridskipper: zuerich correspondent needed?

i recently returned from a 2.5 month stint in berlin, where i lived, studied and breathed all that is deutsch. and in that time, i fell in LOVE with the city. it recalls what the east village was 20 years ago without all the crime (or at least what i experienced).

and around every corner there is a new surprise, and on any given night you can find yourself outside of your typical MO. in a city so large, with so much untappable coolness seeping from the seams - i found my prize navigating resource: gripskipper berlin.

gridskipper is nothing new. it was even voted as one of Time's 50 Coolest Sites in 2005. but i found such satisfaction in rediscovering it (despite the fact that would have done me a world of wonders this summer after hitting 13+ european cities in 2 months...Lonely Planet's Europe on a Shoestring lost my attention after budapest). to the traveling public's good fortune, gridskipper has a plethora of cities listed all over the world.

but some of the city info is much more comprehensive than others. and that's when i realized where the sense of satisfaction came from: i was using it in the city i lived in. therefore, i was disappointed to find that the zuerich pages resemble a blog vs. the useful coolness superimposed on maps that the berliner pages have and that gridskipper promises. perhaps they need a local correspondent...? we gotta sell this city!

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