Posts Tagged ‘Swiss’

Note: I am playing PhotoHunt, again. Due to the old computer dying I wasn’t able to get online for about three months. If you like to take photos and visit other great blogs sharing their photos, you should join in the fun.

Above is a photo of our new heavy hairdryer.
It is a [...]

I took the photo below on February the 2nd.

I took this one today, February the 8th.

I think it is interesting to see how the same landscape can look so different when it is covered in snow and the sky changes.
The snow began melting a few days ago due to a nice warm sun. We [...]

My new slippers I found for 5 Swiss francs!
I have found that I, personally, have an adjustment period as an expat.
It took about 10 months for me to start feeling at home in France and it has taken me about 8 months to adjust to life in Switzerland.
Switzerland has slowly become my home.
I adore fondue, [...]

On Sunday, we went to the Carnival of Noirmont.
We were pleasantly surprised to find out that the cortège (procession) makes two rounds through the streets of Le Noirmont. At the tail of the parade was the beginning.
We got to watch the carnival procession all over again.
Even if my feet were frozen solid it was [...]

The children ran to the door of the house making as much noise as they could until the owner of each house opened the door to give them donations of candy, chocolate, cookies and money. If no one was home the children would check the mailbox to see if there were any goodies left [...]

The Baitchai didn’t keep me up all night.
I heard them begin at 10 p.m. sharp. I went to bed soon after. I wasn’t woken up until at around 5:30 a.m. as they walked down our street.
I have to clear up the fact that even if the word Baitchai means the sound of a [...]

Our village will be assaulted by the Baitchai tonight. Starting at around 10 p.m. men and women dressed in white will parade through the streets of our village playing musical instruments, banging on pots and pans or whatever else they are inspired by. Basically the goal is to make as much noise [...]

It is magical.
We don’t have a car and take the train when we need things we can’t buy in our village. Today was one of those days. It isn’t hard to love taking the train and the view that goes along with it.

We have Internet, a new memory card for one of the [...]

Rubbing the sleep from my eyes I stretched to see what the kids were so excited about. Their shrills of happiness pushed me right out of sleep and into the day. Looking up I saw snow not falling but blowing from the sky. It was coming down hard and reminded me of [...]

Snow markers have been up all over our village since Monday. I was told that last year there wasn’t much snow here in the Jura. However, the year before the snow level was up to the orange!
That’s a lot of snow.
We have already bought snow pants and a coat that is wind and [...]