Gay Zurich Café Rathaus, Limmatquai – give me a break

Suzy Size fled gay Pattaya: Disenchantment with gay Thailand leads to grand gay European tour

By Suzy Size, normally based in gay Pattaya, reporting live from gay Zurich

Understandably Suzy Size needed a break after that hearty sex at gay Paragonya Zurich sauna. She walked down Muehlegasse and followed beautiful river Limmat along Limmatquai in direction to the lake, but not too far. She stopped just before the city parliament building called Rathaus at Café Rathaus, a new place (see Pink Pages of Sticky Rice Gay Guide World for details.) It took the authorities about 35 years to shut down this central and very beautiful section of the old town for private traffic. Development is very slow in Zurich. In Pattaya you probably could build about 350 View Talay eyesores in that time. And – the thoughts of your benign heroine went back to good old sleaze town - in no time – she thought - they were building this road extension in Thappraya road leading from the heart of gay Pattaya (Boyztown) to gay Jomtien beach. Suzy Size, sitting outside Café Rathaus in the sun, enjoying this wonderful part of old Zurich, recently regained from the deadly traffic, wonders whether or not they finished said massive road extension in Pattaya already? Pensive silly Suzy. It cut away the terrace of that nice and inexpensive Italian restaurant. The place will never be the same. It is a shame.

Suzy Size to her great delight had seen on the menu that they had this wonderful Weissbier from Munich at Café Rathaus as well. She ordered one of a cute waiter, even though her good friend Peter in Cotignac would strongly object. All of the waiters at Rathaus Café are cute and obviously gay, and very unavailable for old tarts comme said much quoted size-queen. Lucas, the architect who just recently had spent a vacation at the new Sansuk gay sauna and hotel in Pattaya, joined Suzy for a drink. Actually Lucas had proposed to meet at Café Rathaus. Always listen to the local guides (or consult the Pink Pages of our world gay guide).

Suzy and Lucas had this very distinguished and quite intellectual discussion on architecture, city planning, hustlers, the arts, politics, books, economy and food. It is very hard to find such people in Pattaya if you wish to have (and like) such talks – not difficult to find in Pattaya if you want to talk gay boys only. In Zurich you find such intellectual individuals in masses, everything is so highly cultivated. People are respectful to each other and very, very correct. Just come close to a crossover at a road and the cars are obliged to stop and let you cross. Such is the law here and it is followed by everybody to the point. Coming from Pattaya (or Bangkok) you will most certainly suffer of severe culture shock. If you want to be left alone in Switzerland you can block your telephone from ringing and if somebody tries to call you anyhow (how dare!) he gets a soft spoken woman from a tape telling him: “The subscriber does not want to be disturbed at the moment. Please try again latrer.” As you can see clearly, they overdo a bit in Zurich, they treat each other sometimes as if they all were terminal ill cancer patients. But it is nice for a break from Pattaya.

Then Lucas and Suzy Size decided to go to another famous gay place in Zurich, Grand Café Odeon. They walked there, of course, Zurich is for people that like walking, another striking difference to good old Pattaya.

What might happen at Café Odeon? Read more tomorrow of the adventures of Suzy Size in gay Europe, exclusively on Sticky Rice Gay Asia Guide and soon also covering Gay Europe and therefore becoming a gay European, Asian and Australian guide and in no time covering the gay world as a truly international gay guide that gives you all the clickable links possible.