At the end of the trip, I spent a couple of days recuperating in Zurich before the flight home. Although it's a beautiful city, I don't really think it's representative of Switzerland (at least, not based on what I've seen from this and other trips). As one Zuricher put it, "Zurich is a city full of very tense people rushing from one diamond store to another." Although that's perhaps an exaggeration, Zurich definitely has a more hurried pace than other Swiss cities.