Cows with Flowered Hats

No other blog post title would do justice in explaining my day today. Cows with Flowered Hats. I’ll get to that in a minute, but let me start with Friday evening. My hosts, Martin and Anne, have been absolutely wonderful. Very gracious and welcoming, and we get on really well together. Pretty sweet gig, here. [...]

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Home Sweet Home

There is one less item on my To-Do list. That’s right, I’ve secured a new home. The owner, Henri, was decidedly “un-Swiss”. He doesn’t speak English, so we communicate in French. He’s away on holidays next week, so he’s going to meet me on Friday to just “give me the keys, and we’ll sort out [...]

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Things I Won’t Miss

It’s toes #11-20 here. As the day to leave North America approaches, I can’t help but think of all the things I will sincerely miss, and not miss, here in Canada. To avoid any sharp flying objects from the direction of my mother (…let’s not talk about that…), I’ll start off by stating the obvious: [...]

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Magic Missiles and Golden Swiss Cows

Martin and I have been taking turns cooking lately. Anne works late quite often, so she’s not really part of the mix. The other night, he made up a Balti chicken curry that was so hot, my eyeballs were sweating. It was awesome! Yesterday, he asked me to pick up a couple of steaks so [...]

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Viva la Velo!

Correction Let me start off by saying that Anne, my German hostess, corrected my use of “sprechen Sie Deutsch” from the first post. So much for the Apple Translator Widget… piece of crap. It was a rainy day in Basel. Kinda reminds me of home. Runners I went for a run this morning with a [...]

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Adventures in Freiburg (and more!)

On the weekend, we (Martin, Anne, Michael the Irishman, and myself) went to Freiburg to visit Joel and his girlfriend Sina. Joel is an old friend of mine from Victoria. He moved to Basel more than five years ago. He’s partly to blame for me being here now. When he heard I was moving to [...]

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sprechen Sie Deutsches?

The first week. How hard can it be?

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