Being an Expat, a new narrative

8 January 2010

Mom’s still visiting and the weekend’s approaching (means husband comes home from his out-of-town job soon). Turns out we all wanted Things Made of Leather (mom = wallet, S = belts, me = black leather jacket) for Christmas… so what’s the logical thing for XpatAdventurers to do?
Head to the local post-holiday sales in dept. stores? [...]

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Weekend in Andermatt

7 January 2010

Last weekend we headed up into the mountains — for something fun to do and because my Mother loves snow. Stefan and I skiied Saturday and Sunday at Gemsstock and Mom and Mufasa went for long walks and hung out in the cute, overpriced little town of Andermatt.
Hmmm… in terms of reviews: I LOVE that [...]

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Christmas 2009

30 December 2009

I grew up in Florida and my parents still live in the house we moved into when I was in 6th grade. Florida is great. It’s beautiful in many ways and places. There’s Disney World, swimming with dolphins, miles and miles of white sandy beaches… the thing is, much of the year (when most tourists [...]

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A little Swiss Humor

29 December 2009

An American friend who used to live here in Switzerland once said the Swiss have no sense of humor. I’ve seen several indications recently, though, that that is simply not true.
First, I boarded this plane December 2 on the way to Dusseldorf.  Had to stop on the tarmac and shoot a few pics.  The [...]

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A few notes from my recent trip to China

15 December 2009

Here are a few things I noticed on my recent (and first) trip to China:

This is a crowded shopping area, Dong Men, near the hotel. I took this on Sunday afternoon.  The whole city is not this crowded; I include this for effect. (Yes, that is a Pizza Hut. There were two different Pizza Hut [...]

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Best Christmas Markets

13 December 2009

We’ve become connoisseurs of Christmas markets. Stefan likes to go home to Munich, and everyone should taste Schmidt’s Chocolate-covered Lebkuchen at least once in their lives (look for the bruch =broken ones; as far as I can tell, any even minisicule, invisible to the naked eye imperfection qualifies them as broken).
We didn’t get to Munich this [...]

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One night in Paris

7 December 2009

I’ve been on the road a lot lately.  This post is going up halfway round the world from home. (Am in China on biz and will write about that soon, too.)  I thought I’d take the jet lag time (read: can’t sleep) to catch up on recent travels.
Here are a few tips from a recent [...]

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Pictures Worth a Thousand Words

25 November 2009

So many stories and images to share from last week in the Netherlands. Here’s one of my favorites:
He’s 22, and from Aarupokhari, Nepal. You fly to Kathmandu, he says, take a bus a few hours, then walk for two days. He hopes I’ll come this summer.
“Then they’ll really take me seriously!” he [...]

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Big Challenge, Bigger Rewards

12 November 2009

Organizing the European Summit for Global Transformation… hmmm… what to say?  People from all over the planet… from Poland, Latvia, Nepal, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Texas, New York, California, the Netherlands, Switzerland… and so many other places are coming.  A young woman from Nepal who runs a free evening school for impoverished kids in Kathmandu wrote [...]

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Jonatha & Swirly @ Squam

26 October 2009

Special things happened way out there in the woods at Squam Art Workshops.
It started with Jonatha Brooke playing a few songs at the bonfire the first evening. Shelley Barratt, introduced me to the music of Jonatha Brooke 15 years ago. Songwriting with Jonatha is what clenched the whole Squam deal for me.  I’d been thinking about [...]

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