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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Switzerland 2008-2009’ Category
Announcement!
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged moving home, repatriate, repatriatization, switzerland, texas, the move on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Touring Switzerland and the rest of Europe
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 [...]
Team Building Hiking Trip and the Alp Aufzug
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 [...]
Schloss Hegi
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 [...]
Happy Halloween!
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 [...]
World Blog Surf Day/Holidays and Celebrations/Fasnacht!
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged culture, customs, fasnacht, fastnacht, switzerland, traditions, winterthur, world blog surf day on October 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
So, this is my first post in a ring of this type, and I hope the organizers can forgive me for it being a bit late – having a toddler makes me pretty brain addled sometimes. World Blog Surf Day is an opportunity to learn something new about a different culture, especially through the eyes [...]
Rushing towards Christmas?
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged differences between US and CH, fall, switzerland on October 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Not just yet. This post is spurred by something I read in a friend’s blog today where she was grumbling that a local big supermarket already had Christmas trees and a few Christmas items up for sale. One summer in college I worked at a Hallmark store. I think most people know that every [...]
Adventures in German
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged deutsch, german, german class, lost in translation, switzerland, translation on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m now in my second class of the study of the German language. I’m still pretty terrible at it, especially since I don’t have the discipline to fully immerse myself. I should be watching more German TV, and studying harder.
Tonight’s class started with a brief discussion of what symptoms you would have if you had [...]
Mainau Island, Germany
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged constance, garden, gardens, germany, insel, island, konstance, konstanz, mainau, mainau island, switzerland on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few weekends ago, we went to visit a good friend of ours who lives just across the border in Constance, Germany. It is only about a 45 minute train ride from Winterthur, and we can even take a direct train with no transfers.
We’d been to the city of Constance once before close to Christmas [...]
The Walls in the Mall…
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged sihlcity, switzerland, zurich on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…are like totally totally tall, for sure, dude.
Only members of my immediate family will get that joke. But I thought of it today when I ventured into a Swiss version of a shopping mall in Zurich with my friend Stacy today.
Most shopping can be found in shops in a city’s center. A bakery can be [...]
Zürcher Limmatschwimmen
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged float, limmat, limmat river, limmat river float, Limmatschwimmen, river, switzerland, zurich on September 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A few weeks ago, we were one of a lucky few to get to participate in something that is only done once a year, primarily by local citizens – float down the river that runs through the middle of Zürich, the Limmat. Normally swimming in the Limmat River is verboten – forbidden – with the [...]
German humor…
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged german, language, switzerland on September 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On one of our trips back to the states, we bought a card box with 1,000 German words, similar in size and style to the cards used for Pictionary or Trivial Pursuit. While we are eating, we pinch out about a dozen cards and study them. We’d also been watching some cartoons in German earlier [...]
Basel: Museums and the Dreiländereck
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged basel, Dreiländereck, switzerland on September 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A visiting friend, Pat, and I went to the town of Basel last month while Heath stayed home with the baby (a very nice break for me, since I’m almost never without my toddler for very long). Situated on the Rhine at the edge of northwestern Switzerland where France and Germany meet, it has been [...]
Walk in the Woods
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged Bäumli, hiking, lindberg, switzerland, vitaparcours, wildlife, winterthur, woods on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our city of Winterthur spreads out like a six-fingered hand into the valleys between wooded hilltops. The city and its people own all the wooded areas, and protect them from being developed. To maintain them, they periodically do selective cut logging of the woods, and sell the firewood. It is a really good system, and [...]
Blueberries! (and Eggs, and Flowers, too)
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged bernese, bernese mountain dog, blueberries, blueberry picking, edward, eggs, friends, gladiolas, switzerland on August 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
As usual, life has kept me busy, and my energy and brain cells are sapped trying to outsmart a toddler. Oh well!
Recently, I had two opportunities to go blueberry picking with my closest friends here in Switzerland (both of whom are also mommies).
I haven’t gone berry picking since I was a kid living on the [...]
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