Back home
It is strange coming home to Switzerland. Everybody knows that this country is quite small, but it is also, uhm, fully packed. Not cramped, because, of course, it is a tidy country. It resembles more a...
View ArticleFlat hunting
...is somewhat different in Switzerland. There is no such thing as three weeks notice and you are out of your flat. Here, you need to tell your landlord three months in advance that you want to leave....
View ArticleWe have a home
Wooahh, that was a hectic Wednesday! We had applications running for three flats at the same time, and, of course, we had our number one. I honestly had no idea what our chances were and therefore we...
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The Swiss National Sausage
This might sound a little bit strange for the non-Swiss, but its essential to set this one right early on.There is one central sausage in Switzerland. Some people may try to convince you otherwise....
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Surprising Esther
Esther had no clue. Nada. Zilch. She thought her two siblings take her out for a siblings-only day. Hiking. How great is that... She arrived in Switzerland just the day before and now hiking. Jetlagged...
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Homesick
Yesterday, we watched TV. We saw a docu about a German family returning home after they have lived for three years in New Zealand.How can you leave that country anyway?I miss the seagulls that tear...
View ArticleTrying to enjoy soccer
Finally. The European Championships have started. Switzerland was "instructed" by all available media to be extremely excited. This is the event. We will show the word what a terrific host country we...
View ArticleDelay - Swiss style
InterCity train bound to Zürich. Stops a little bit too long in Olten. PA announcement: "Due to the European Soccer Championships there is an increased number of trains operating. This has caused a...
View ArticleArsenic time
Looks like I was cheering at just the right moment yesterday. Seconds later hell broke loose...Years ago I helped organizing some winter camps for little kiddies. The camps were always big fun. They...
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Sundays
On the left you see the view that we have where we are living currently. It's out there, it's rural, it's country life at its best. The bells of the village church greet us, the smell of cow dung...
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Below the Mittagsgüpfi
We went for our first hike! How splendid! Esther's mother grew up in a small mountain valley close to Lucerne, and she was keen on showing us her birthplace. Not that we have never been there, but you...
View ArticleGoing to work
10 minutes before departure. Enough time to buy lunch? I take the risk and enter the grocery shop. Queues at the checkout are long, but the women work fast. Still four minutes to go. Track 8. I walk...
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Yodeling (for Craig)
Yodeling is a kind of singing that is really abundant in all the countries that border the alps: Austria, Germany, Switzerland. A yodel sounds strange - and strange it is indeed. There are many...
View ArticleHomerun
Another 25 Minutes and I will get the key for our new apartment. Yay! I can't wait to just stand in there, close the door and know: "This is ours". Interestingly, a voice inside my head says: "For a...
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An old saying...
Is this dust on this blog? ;-) Never mind.An old kiwi saying says that if the customer cannot come to Revel cafe, Revel cafe has to come to its customer. In our case this meant that we bought ourselves...
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Gere
...is the name of a incredibly tiny village. It consists of about roughly 6 huts or so, but look for yourself:View Larger MapIts claim to fame is that one of the huts used to be the retreat of Dr....
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Silo8
They call themselves "Karls Kühne Gassenschau" (Carl's bold streetshow), and that's what they are indeed. It's street theatre blown up to incredible proportions, lots of action, pyrotechnical stunts,...
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Our little town
That's where we live. It's a little town called Baden, at the edge of Switzerland, just next to Germany. Or nearly so. The river that runs through it comes for Zürich and later on joins (hang on, I...
View ArticleThings you better don't do
Eating two Schwöbli and a bar of chocolate just before you enter the gym and then decide to fill your water bottle with sickly sweet ice tea instead of, well, water.After 30 minutes I had to abort the...
View ArticleSBB
Swiss people adore their train system. It reflects themselves in many and very flattering ways. It is fast, accurate, precise, up to date, clean and busy. And I have to admit, I am one of them as well....
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