A close-up and personal look at Switzerland
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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