Last weekend Bee was in town and I took a jaunt over to Prague, just like I’ve always wanted to do ever since reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being and all of its romantic references about traveling between Zurich and Prague. Old town Prague looks like something Jules Verne invented and Walt Disney copied, a [...]
Yesterday I received a curious email from someone at the reception desk:
date: Feb 5, 2008 10:35 AMsubject: Giftmailed-by: google.com
Hi JessicaCan you come to the reception anytime today?We have a present for you.Cheers
Ok I’ll admit, I can’t resist emails like this. I also know that by saying this, every one of my so-called friends who is [...]
Amazing news. I have an apartment. I signed all the contracts tonight and as long as I pay the deposit (CHF 6,000) the place is mine on April 1. This may not sound like a bloggable topic, but then, I’ve never had to rent an apartment in a place where the vacancy rate was 1%, [...]
Now that we’re on the theme of “behind,” two weeks ago an old friend from Ireland who trains horses and riders for a living stopped by on his way to Basel and took me to the Mercedes CSI International Horse Show in Zurich. Big horse shows with grand prix jumpers and absurd prizes — in [...]
I am so totally behind in my photo management. Here are photos from November/December of 2007 that I’ve finally managed to edit and upload. I met Superstar in Geneva on his business trip and then he took me to Paris for a late birthday present. Quel amour!
Geneva gallery
Paris Gallery
There’s a little cafe on Werdstrasse cutely called “Bubbles” that serves brunch and what they call “English breakfast.” It’s not far from my studio and reminds me of my favorite corner cafe in Chicago, “Uncommon Ground,” that also serves marvelous brunch. I would be hard pressed to call the brunch at Bubbles equally marvelous, just [...]
Moving to another country invariably sets off a wave of self-reflection, self-doubt, and other forms of bountiful, shameless, self-obsession in the newly landed immigrant. (Unless of course you’re this guy I once dated who traveled across Europe for nearly a year only to tell me that it was “cool,” and couldn’t think of anything he [...]
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