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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Euro Cup

being a host city for the 2nd largest sporting event in the world (the 1st being the Wold Cup), means many things. public transportation is crowded, you can buy bratwurst on every street corner, and the hair salons offer flag face painting as a service. and one of the advantages (?) of being in a multi-cultural city is that all the countries are represented by ex-pats, so every match has thousands of fans in every neighborhood. and when a team wins, they rock the city all night with horns, singing and general tomfoolery.

Tonight Italy finally won a match, and while I'm inside with my swiss noise-proof windows closed, I can hear every word of the Italian national anthem on constant repeat. The swiss are way better behaved, when they won 2 nights ago, they were in bed by 10:30 so as not to wake the neighbors...

Saturday, March 15, 2008

America's 25% off sale!!

When I moved here, the dollar was trading at 1.25 swiss francs, today <1 CHF

are Canadians no longer accepting US quarters now?

Monday, March 03, 2008

my mom has a blog!

and you should all check it out. She loves her RV and her dog......