T̶w̶o̶ One p̶e̶r̶p̶e̶t̶u̶a̶l̶ ̶e̶x̶p̶a̶t̶s̶ immigrant settling into home country number five.
Nevermind that Lent has already started – Zurichers braved the snow by the tens this weekend to revel in the streets with a bunch of funnily-dressed marching bands. I’m guessing that Zurich celebrates carnival the weekend after the rest of the world because all the good bands are busy during the real carnival playing in … Read more
Saturday it snowed all day long… …and into the night. Not bad for a camera phone, eh? So far we’re at a foot and a half, and it’s still coming down. I’ll let you know when it stops. 2:00 AM update… still snowing. We just went out and made snow angels. And at the … Read more
Nobody warned me substantially enough about Swiss German. To call it “Swiss German” in the first place is ridiculously misleading… it implies that the language is, in the end, a kind of German. Kind of like “American English”… to get from here to British English, all you have to do is say “boot” instead of … Read more
And this is just what I can see from my couch. I will never get tired of winter.
The powers that be recently got together and decided that the signs inside Zurich public transportation were unacceptably lacking in humor, stereotypes, and surrealism. Much to my delight, they fixed all three problems at once, making my daily tram rides a lot more entertaining. Care to guess what the following diagrams are trying to tell … Read more
The fountain in front of the train station is frozen. Long live winter.