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Demi-tarif (Half-fare card)

June 19, 2008

Click to view larger. In January, Vilay and I purchased two demi-tarif (Half-fare) cards for the Swiss train lines. Each time we buy a train, bus or boat ticket we only pay half the price with our cards. It is also good for discounts on other things like the funicular lines, car rentals and more. [...]

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Hard decisions

May 29, 2008

When we went to Fribourg a little while back, I had mentioned that there was an opportunity there. I traveled there for an interview for a position with a company. It was for good money and it would have been nice on my resume for Switzerland not to mention a great learning experience in an [...]

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A hand full of change

October 2, 2007

Believe it or not I have thirty two Swiss francs and some odd change in my hands. It doesn’t look like much when it is all in coins. However, it is. As an American living in Europe, I must constantly remind myself that those coins are not small change to be casually tossed into the [...]

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