Living in Tunisia – Tunisia: A Survival Guide
Written by someone who did not survive with dignity I’m back in Switzerland for a few days and sitting in my old apartment like someone who has traveled back to their former life. Everything...
Tagged: Reality check
Posts where idealised expectations collide with real life.
Dating in Tunisia – Theory 3: The Abduction of the Desert Bride
alias: My friends’ creativity is starting to worry me This theory falls into the category: “Technically not impossible, but so unlikely that it’s actually funny.” This is how my friends put it: “What if...
Dating in Tunisia – Theory 2: The Supervillain Nightmare Scenario
(alias: My friends watch too many crime documentaries) This theory is… dramatic. And highly entertaining. Every time I travel, at least one friend comes up with a scenario so exaggerated that even Marvel Studios...
Dating in Tunisia – Theory 1: The Master Manipulator
Theory 1: The Master Manipulator (When my friends turn my love life into a pilot episode of a crime series) It always goes the same way: As soon as I mention there’s someone new...
Laws in Tunisia – The last train: Weed in Tunisia and my farewell
I smoked my last joint today. And yes, I will miss it. And at the same time – not again. Smoking weed was cool as long as it was only once in a while....
Bureaucracy in Switzerland – Happily paperless: The day I starved the form god
I don’t know what got into me. Maybe it was defiance. Maybe exhaustion. Maybe the quiet realization that a system that forces you to do a pointless duty will eventually become absurd if you...
Emigrating from Switzerland – Zia, 47 and so done with this place
I am Zia. And this is my blog. Forty-eight, born in the canton of Bern, currently stranded in the bureaucratic limbo of the canton of Solothurn. Officially, I’m Swiss. But at the moment, my...
