From the category archives:

Switzerland

Island Girl meets Mountain Boy

February 8, 2010

As a child, growing up in Sardinia, my winter activities never involved skiing, or ice skating. It hardly ever snows in Sardinia in winter, so snow was a special occurrence and cause for celebration – but then again, us Italians will use anything as a cause for celebration, ’cause we love good food, good wine [...]

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Um… falala? Or whatever the Swiss-German equivalent is.

December 21, 2009

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. And it’s about friggin’ time.
The holiday spirit has been having a really hard time catching up with me this year – I kept running away and sticking my tongue out and saying “Nananananana! You are not going to get me!”. Yeah, something along those lines, only grumpier.
But [...]

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Oh, that’s funny. No wait, it’s not.

December 6, 2009

When I attended BlogHer this past summer, there was an awesome panel with the funniest women in the blogosphere: Wendy Aarons, Jessica Bern, Jenny The Bloggess, Deb On The Rocks, Kelcey from The Mama Bird Diaries and Anna from Life Keeps Getting Weirder.
Someone got up to the mic and said that she wasn’t funny, and [...]

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Jump on and go

August 20, 2009

Winters are long here. Heck, winters are long in New York too, but I clearly remember how long they felt here.
Too long.
Winter always feels too long to me. I’m from an island, and even if I haven’t lived there in 15 years, every time I go back I remember. My body remembers. The sun, the [...]

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Short and to the point

August 12, 2009

Random bits after a week or so back in Switzerland – or a list-like answer to “How do you like it there Elisa?”
The good:
- public transportation
- the bread
- the lake and everything to do with it
- the weather. warm, but not suffocatingly so.
- everything is SO clean!
- everything is so small. The building are short. [...]

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