IT'S ALIIIIIVE!
Like the proverbial phoenix rising from the flames, I return to blog again.
The return to blogging is also inspired by my friend Georgia's blog of her journey to Iceland to begin her Master's in Biology there (http://georgiasadventures.wordpress.com/2014/09/05/preparing-to-move-to-iceland/).
This blog, when I remember to write stuff, will chart some of the things I get up to as I commence a new job in a foreign country.
This all came about very quickly. KP (present in some of the photos from the pub crawl, way back) asked if I wanted to work in Switzerland for a little while, with his employer, Selfrag, a start up company working on the electrical breakage of rocks for the mining and other industries. After a little umm-ing and ahhi-ng I decided to go.
The first step was finding a room. KP sent me links to WGZimmer, a swiss house/flat sharing website, for those looking for room mates and lodgers etc. I emailed several people, looking for a room, but none responded. When I made my own advertisement to stay in Kerzers, the small town Selfrag is situated in, I had a response within a day!
Accommodation was agreed upon, and I booked flights, travelling over on Friday 5th Sept, at 8am (meaning a 5am start), landing in Geneva at 11am local time.
Next was the train. Thankfully, the information and ticket desk's attendants spoke english and I got a ticket from Geneva to Kerzers, single for 51CHF (swiss francs), about £35 for a 2 hour journey, on par with the UK's ridiculous rail prices.
In the meantime, as a reward for making it through that text, enjoy some views from the train window:
This blog, when I remember to write stuff, will chart some of the things I get up to as I commence a new job in a foreign country.
This all came about very quickly. KP (present in some of the photos from the pub crawl, way back) asked if I wanted to work in Switzerland for a little while, with his employer, Selfrag, a start up company working on the electrical breakage of rocks for the mining and other industries. After a little umm-ing and ahhi-ng I decided to go.
The first step was finding a room. KP sent me links to WGZimmer, a swiss house/flat sharing website, for those looking for room mates and lodgers etc. I emailed several people, looking for a room, but none responded. When I made my own advertisement to stay in Kerzers, the small town Selfrag is situated in, I had a response within a day!
Accommodation was agreed upon, and I booked flights, travelling over on Friday 5th Sept, at 8am (meaning a 5am start), landing in Geneva at 11am local time.
Next was the train. Thankfully, the information and ticket desk's attendants spoke english and I got a ticket from Geneva to Kerzers, single for 51CHF (swiss francs), about £35 for a 2 hour journey, on par with the UK's ridiculous rail prices.
In the meantime, as a reward for making it through that text, enjoy some views from the train window:
The view from the train from Geneva to Kerzers
All the streetlights in Switzerland are wonky, its something to do with a royal decree.
Vineyards?
My landlady, Kathrin, thankfully picked me up at Kerzers station, and walked me to the new abode, on Wolfackerstraasen, or Wolf acre street, apparently so called as wolves used to live here.
Catering for myself is the next issue, and I'll have to navigate my way through the (small) town, using my bastardised german-french-english hybrid language that I recall from High School.
It's going to be interesting.
Oh, and one more thing, like England, Switzerland has different plug sockets to the rest of Europe, meaning your continental travel adapters won't work here, unless they specifically say they do. Next stop, UK-Swiss adapterville!
A view from Kerzers towards those hills in the background.
To be continued...
