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The X-pat Files

Silence is golden. Or maybe it’s made of Swiss chocolate.

March 16, 2010

“The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or actually, as mechanisms. Human emotion and sympathy are unprofessional. They are inappropriate to the exercise of reason.”
[...]
“We have lots of cake. But no revolutionaries. Revolution, the shouting and breaking things. It’s very un-Swiss.”
from The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway*

The Swiss are very tidy. [...]

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Far or near, we do love you New York!

February 18, 2010

A few months ago, watching this would have made me cry. I missed New York terribly, everything I loved (still love) about it, all my friends, the local bloggers, the never-ending possibilities and things to do… Now it’s different. I still miss New York, but watching this makes me smile. It’s like when you lose [...]

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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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The light at the end of the tunnel

January 27, 2010

Lately, I have resurfaced. I am no longer being a stranger, I started blogging again, I started tweeting again, and I’m trying to keep up to date with the posts of my all fave bloggy friends (haven’t quite succeed yet, you are all so prolific, but I’m working on it!).
I’m no longer in hiding, no [...]

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Friends in all the far places.

January 22, 2010

When you are an expat, friendship is tricky. When you move around a lot, local friends are a rare commodity.
Currently, my closest friends live in New York, Oslo and Bern (soon to move back to Florida).
I’m a firm believer in the fact that it’s better to have a few very good friends than a whole [...]

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Outfit of the Week: coffee with the expats

January 13, 2010

One of the first things I did when I moved back here was organize an English book swap.
English books are fairly easily available in Zurich, but also pretty expensive. So I figured that any English-speaking bookworm would be happy to have the chance to trade some of their books for new ones they haven’t read [...]

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