A close-up and personal look at Switzerland
The weather; something you have no control over but it is still fascinating. The first couple of years I was here, when everyone else was running around in shorts and t-shirts, laying in the sun like dead flies, oh-ing and… Read moreThe Four Seasons
Eating something new might be a challenge, but how you eat can be equally challenging, too. It wasn’t hard to miss, I was always the last one to finish my meals. Always. People were getting bored, sitting tapping their fingers… Read moreOf Forks and Knives
I’m not really a soccer person, but to be fair I’m not a football kind of person either. I suppose if I had to choose it would be tennis and that long before King Roger took to the courts. But… Read moreSoccer Season
Often times when people travel to other countries they find comfort in food that they can recognize. When a friend of mine visited she almost flipped out when she saw a McDonalds in Paris and just had to stop there… Read morePizza
Formal or informal? That is the question. There are two ways to say ‘you’ in German: ‘Sie’ and ‘du’, formal and informal. Of all the tricky things there are in learning a language I found this to be a difficult… Read moreYou can say you to me
Some things never change. When I was growing up and we lived in upstate New York every time we had out-of-state visitors we would go see the sights: Niagara Falls or dash down to see the Statue of Liberty. Now,… Read moreThe Top of Europe
No, the title isn’t a euphemism of some sort. This post is really about doing the laundry! A heck of a lot of people live in apartments in Switzerland. I did too for the first 36 years I lived here…. Read moreDoing the Laundry
I was in college the first time I went to Switzerland. My fiancés father organized my flight over from JFK. Ben’s mother and father, who I had never met before were going to meet me in Geneva and take me… Read moreGetting There
Growing up, every Christmas we would get a crate full of grapefruit from relatives who lived in Florida. I wasn’t a big fan of grapefruit back then but I now understand the idea behind the gift. Switzerland is famous for… Read moreChocolate
I live in the Geman speaking part of Switzerland. Not that they speak German here, no, Germans speak German, Swiss speak Swiss-German; quite a difference. Stick with me here, I’ll have you speaking Swiss-German in no time. Repeat after me: do-dee… Read moreGruessech!
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