Auf wiedersehen
One of the things about expat life is that it tends to be transitory in nature. Since many people are on temporary assignments or working for international companies, chances are they're going to be moving on at some point. People come, people go.
And so it is in the small expat blogging world in Switzerland, which bade farewell to Heather, who has moved up north to Germany. I've always found her to be one of the more eloquent bloggers around (winner of Best Swiss Blog last year), and not just about life in Switzerland. Heather and her husband were kind enough to invite us over to lunch in their small village two hours from Basel near the Rheinfall the weekend before their move, and other than getting geblitzt once again (I was so careful the entire way there, then lost track of my speed while trying to navigate the streets of a neighboring town and got my usual 40-franc speeding ticket), we had a great time.
Seeing her farewell post makes me realise it won't be long before we'll also be making farewell posts of our own. We're not really sure what will happen to our blog after that...we'll probably keep blogging for a while about the readjustment back to life in the States, but will it have the same urgency and relevance once we're settled back in? Too soon to say. But whatever happens, this blog has been a much bigger part of our life and identity here than we ever could have imagined at the outset.
And so it is in the small expat blogging world in Switzerland, which bade farewell to Heather, who has moved up north to Germany. I've always found her to be one of the more eloquent bloggers around (winner of Best Swiss Blog last year), and not just about life in Switzerland. Heather and her husband were kind enough to invite us over to lunch in their small village two hours from Basel near the Rheinfall the weekend before their move, and other than getting geblitzt once again (I was so careful the entire way there, then lost track of my speed while trying to navigate the streets of a neighboring town and got my usual 40-franc speeding ticket), we had a great time.
Seeing her farewell post makes me realise it won't be long before we'll also be making farewell posts of our own. We're not really sure what will happen to our blog after that...we'll probably keep blogging for a while about the readjustment back to life in the States, but will it have the same urgency and relevance once we're settled back in? Too soon to say. But whatever happens, this blog has been a much bigger part of our life and identity here than we ever could have imagined at the outset.
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