Alpina's blog post - The Eagle has Landed

No, we're not on the moon, but emotionally further away from home than I had thought. Home, this is still my old house in the Vorarlbergian mountains, and where we are now is town, is Zuerich, is Switzerland. I don't want to complain: they do not treat me as a stranger at all, I even speak their dialect, although it has become a little rusty since my studies almost 20 years ago. The flat we inhabit for the time being is very central, but rather small - relatively small, I must admit, because three bedrooms is not bad, just much smaller than we are used to. And although my friend Beatrix lives in this town, too, I miss people I know. Fortunately her two teenage daughters can come around now and then to babysit, so I do not have to be a 24/7 - mother and have a rest now and then and a little time to myself.

Phillip said you have not really taken possession of a place before you have not had sex in each new room. OK then, we have taken possession of it almost - just the cellar is left, but it is open to people's views as well as dusty and freezing, so maybe we're leaving this for the moment. The same applies to the little balcony: it is tiny and there is 10 centimetres of snow, so we'll certainly wait till spring until it's really ours.