Home Sweet Home
When we return for a visit to our families in Switzerland, they think of us as coming home.
The landscape and the language are familiar; the yodel music playing on the radio makes me hum along. It feels warm to be surrounded by family, but some things just don’t fit any more.
We have forgotten about the restaurants filled with cigarette smoke. As much as we love white asparagus, bratwurst, roesti and Linzer Torte, it is difficult to eat such a large meal for lunch. The coffee is so strong, it makes me tremble.
The train system in Switzerland is like its country’s famous watches: reliable and punctual. If a person arrives one minute late, the train has left. Here, in the Cariboo region we live on "Cariboo time", people are perpetually fifteen minutes late. Needless to say....
Published in Spotlight 2005 www.spotlight-online.de
