We just came across a shop that sells not only oil and vinegar in bulk, but also liqueurs, rum and whiskey!
Tag: land of cheese and chocolate
We have (tentatively) found housing
Expensive, but niiiiice
We’ve been to two different Italian restaurants so far and, though they’re not cheap by the standards we’re used to, they’re not bad by Swiss ones and the food was highly satisfactory! I’ve just had veal roast with a tuna sauce that was to die for, and last week I had a beef carpaccio with rocket & parmesan salad that was nummay! Katy had an antipasti platter and some cold poached salmon. Bean had a pizza and some pasta with prawns and pesto. And the ice cream…. Oh, the ice cream :-) so yeah, as lo.g as you don’t dwell too much on the prices, the food is kick ass.
House hunting
Katy, Bean and I were chauffeured around Lausanne and the its outskirts yesterday in our first foray into finding a permanent house. We saw some really nice (and ‘spensive!) properties and there are two candidates that we’re humming and hawing about. Both are in what could be nicely called the middle of nowhere (one is in a village whose total population is about 600 people) but they’re nice, big, with lots of storage and a garden for the child and the dog. So yeah, options :)
More news to come as we figure out what happens next.
I’m becoming a local :)
Every morning, I stop at a little bakery just in front of our house to grab a sandwich for lunch. They’re good, cheap (-er than what it would cost at work) and the lady is nice. This morning, she had a sandwich already bagged up, waiting for me.
This made me inordinately happy :)
First impressions of Switzerland and work
– The commute is going to be fairly longish, but fine.
– Prices here are INSANE.
– Horse meat, when you’re expecting it, is really tasty.
– My work laptop has a swiss QWERTZ keyboard. It’s driving me mad. I’ve remapped it to US English and generally ignore the meaningless symbols on the keyboard.
– The Swiss make good bread, great coffee, but shit tea.
– There is a very big smoking culture here. Stopping will be a bitch.
– The science that Nestle plans on doing is impressive. Really impressive. Almost tempting me to get back to the bench. Almost.
– YAAAAAAAY, papwrwork!!!!!!