Starting to Roll

I have another blog over on wordpress, but it just occured to me that, even though I have lived in Switzerland for 14 years, I don't talk about it much!

So I have created this blog 'Swiss Rolling' and will dedicate it to all my experiences, good and bad, as an expat in Switzerland.

The kind of Swiss Roll I refer to is of course, not this one...

...delicious though it may be; but the way we 'roll' over here, day in, day out! :D

I live right slap bang in the middle of this map, around the Luzern area. You can see the large amount of blue to the right of Luzern; that is the Vierwaldstàttersee (Lake Luzern). It is extremely large (114 km) and my house overlooks it, as we live opposite the Marina.

Switzerland has a name for being a nation of bankers, and while that may, or may not be true, they certainly have a lot of these hidden away (countless searches have led me nowhere so far!) ;)

Also, they are fastidious craftsmen, and make excellent:

and, of course:

As it's my virgin, or 'Jungfrau' post, I won't bore you too much with the details! I'll just tell you that I came to live in german-speaking Switzerland in 2001. My husband is Swiss, and has lived here all his life. He comes from a large farming family, although his father could only afford pigs, so he grew up on  a pig farm. The smell is quite unique, and takes some getting used to!

I have two daughters, both teenagers now. They attend Swiss State schools, and speak fluent English, German and Swiss-German. I teach English privately, and am writing a novel/blogs at the same time.

Daily life can be a struggle, as my German, or Swiss-German isn't yet perfect. Ordering a pizza? Kein problem! Trying to get an engineer to come out to fix the dishwasher? Not so easy!

More Swiss Rolling to come... 

Keep skiing by now!

Angela x