Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged banknotes, coins, francs, franken, money, rappen, switzerland on November 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Pardon the pun. I recently saw an article about the decline of popularity of the American penny. It got me thinking about the Swiss money system. The Swiss equivalent of a cent is a rappen. You can only get rappen as small as 5. The denominations are 5, 10, 20, and 50.
Also, the Swiss Franc [...]
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged cow, cows, switzerland on November 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sorry, we’ve been reading far more children’s books than adult’s books lately. But it relates to my quick post of the day. For some reason over the past week or so, if I have the north-facing windows open, I will quite clearly hear a bellowing cow. The nearest ones I know of are a handful [...]
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged food, foriegn specialties, lebkuchen, quarkini, Schoko Pfeffer-Nüsse, snacks, snips, swiss specialties, switzerland on November 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I always like to try new food items and you never know what wacky food combinations will work well. This week I grabbed two new snacks, Snips and Schoko Pfeffer-Nüsse, and two favorites I discovered last year, Lebkuchen and Quarkini.
Snips are the same consistency of Cheetos (maybe a little less gummy on the teeth), and [...]
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged switzerland, winterthur, altstadt, fresh market, farmers market, fresh bread, local food, eating locally, florist, bread stall, vegetable stand on November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of my favorite things about Switzerland is all the local food. I’m a big advocate, whenever possible, to eat locally and try to reduce our carbon footprint by regularly eating goods that are transported hundreds or thousands of miles. The Swiss are very proud of their local foods, and all foods are required to [...]
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged moving home, repatriate, repatriatization, switzerland, texas, the move on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We are moving back to Texas in January!
Lots of details still to be ironed out, but I’m sad, happy, worried, and stressed all at once.
We still plan to take a few more day trips and at least one weekend trip within Switzerland, so I’m sure I’ll have more to post in the next few [...]
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009 on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was thinking today about how many places we’ve seen and explored here in Switzerland over the last year and few months that we’ve lived here and how much more we want to see, not just of Switzerland, but of Europe.
Even though I’ve not written about all of them here on this blog, here are [...]
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged Alp Aufzug, alpine cow parade, alpine traditions, alps, appenzell, cow parade, cows, goats, hiking, parade, scooter, swiss traditions, switzerland on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A month or so ago (I’m late as usual to posting events) my husband went on a Team Building hiking trip thing. His team took a train to bus to a cable car up a mountain, and then hiked back down the mountain, going down on scooters partway, and stopping for the occasional beer. The [...]
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged castle, hegi, schloss, schloss hegi, switzerland, winterthur on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the town of Winterthur, there are two castles. The more well-known is Schloss Kybourg. It is a bit confusing to get there by public transportation, so while it is on our list of places to check out, we’ve not exactly been there yet. A fun little castle that is very easy to get to [...]
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged alfredo, alfredo sauce, braised spinach, halloween, halloween feast, homemade, homemade alfredo, jack-o-lantern, shrimp, shrimp scampi, squid ink pasta, switzerland on November 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Although Halloween isn’t really celebrated here in Switzerland, there are several expat groups that were hosting parties for the kids. We decided that our son is still a bit too young to participate in any big Halloween and had a lazy day at home. We devoured jack-o-lantern and ghost-shaped Peeps brought to us previously by [...]
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