Switzerland is famous for its cows with the always present bells.
However you might risk to meet also some little stranger… creatures if you are wandering around in the Swiss Cantons!
Swiss… creatures
Nature
Black sky
Tonight…
Before the storm: Just one light on in the dark sky
Singing in the rain
Today in Switzerland, Argovia, it was raining.
And it was a weird rain…
Sand!
If I had known, I would have tried to make a sand castle!
The last one
During my lunch break’s walk, I found the last apple of the plantation…
Forgotten or just… lucky?
The Korean mosquito
I was just reading about a new variety of mosquito, aedes koreicus, which can live at low temperatures, and which is now present in Europe, after arriving from Asia with the globalisation…
Yesterday one of these new insects was just resting outside of my window, enjoying the fresh clean air (5 degree C!) in the morning.
Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight!
Sunset
After work, a walk in the village to see the cold nice sunset…
I was hoping to find a lot of corncobs on the field, but they had already been harvested.
The “oder”
When you hear “oder” you might think of the famous German river (see the Wikipedia’s photo above).
But, if you live in Switzerland, “oder” is definitely the most common refrain of every Swiss German spoken sentence! It has a kind of (useless) meaning like the English rhetorical questions “isn’t”, “don’t you”, etc. at the end of a sentence.
Some days ago a colleague (I calculated them!) used multiple infamous “oder”s with an average of one every 30 seconds during a two hours’ meeting! Unbelievable! The small “o” word really became like an unbearable noise to my ears!
By the way… the most international Swiss, to stay consistent to their proud “oder”, even when speaking a foreign language, have absolutely no problem to declaim in English sentences like:
It is quite hot today, or? (Aka: It is quite hot today, isn’t it?)
It was very nice, or? (Aka: It was very nice, wasn’t it?)
Next time it will be better to attend the meeting with ear protection, so that the colleagues will understand my sensitivity to the “oder” word, … OR?
Switzerland becomes “normal” with the snow
This week Switzerland has been crossed by snow storms for days. Some mountain cantons have many villages isolated…
And even Zurich city is blocked: trams and public transportation are stopped.
The snow, with its silent white cover, makes everything the same. Even Switzerland, the organised country, where everything is planned, is shut down by the snow like every other “normal” country…
After work
After a long working day I was lucky yesterday to be able to relax while walking home.
In 35-40 minutes I could have such a nice way home…
Real Swiss 