Shopping in vienna, zurich?

Question

what is authentic to these places and would be nice to bring back home?

Answer 1

I strongly advise you to see what other tourist bought in those two lovely cities:

http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Eur...

http://www.talkingcities.co.uk/vienna_pa...

http://www.fodors.com/miniguides/mgresul...

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-27...

Zurich

http://www.talkingcities.co.uk/zurich_pa...

http://www.frommers.com/destinations/zur...

http://www.zuerich.com/zurich/shopping/i...

http://www.iexplore.com/cityguides/Switz...

I think if you go through these sites you might find some more ideas as to what to shop. I love shopping and I, for instance, go into the Migro (Zurich) which is a sort of a retail store they have great good quality cheap cosmetics and great Swizz Chocolate made by Frey, the best in Switzerland.

Enjoy your shopping.

Answer 2

Vienna is pretty but I can't think of anything specific to there.  Mozart is big and I think they sell some "mozart chocolates"  that are pretty popular.  They also do have some pretty cool beer steins.

Zurich is easy.  Swatchs and Lintz chocolates.  Or they have these really neat little chocolate stores where you can buy they chocolates in the shape and colours of really odd things, like a hamburger or a cell phone.  I would just worry about them melting.  The Swatches there are really cool though.  Some of them have really neat features.  You could also by a swiss army knife, they sell them everywhere.

Have a nice trip.