watson home-making 103: geneva, switzerland (a miracle!)
Posted by torytolles | Filed under Home-Making, Switzerland
[Apologies: after living in our new apartment for more than a month, I finally managed the magical combination of cleaning AND camera.] Living here has been such a blessing. We still did not have a place to live the day before our sublease ended - and Chantal came to the rescue! She is an incredible roommate and shares with us an amazing apartment.
This is our cozy kitchen. Vixie, the fish, lives above the microwave and probably has been horribly irradiated over the years.
This is our bedroom. The small plant on the left is our little basil plant. His name is Lazarus Junior. It has been touch and go a few times. The doors lead to a balcony!
Chris and I have reveled in our access to Chantal’s books. Notice the giant gap in the Lord of the Rings section? We are hooked.
We live about three blocks from the lake. A small marina is right there, and the Jet just around the corner. With the lake right here and a park one block to the right, it is the most wonderful place to run - and live!
watson home-making part 02: (finally!) geneva, switzerland
Posted by christolles | Filed under Home-Making, Switzerland
Bienvenue chez Chris et Tory!
watson home-making part 01: ferney-voltaire, france
Posted by torytolles | Filed under Home-Making, Switzerland
Chris and I are temporarily staying in the most delightful flat just across the Swiss border in France. Our host, Christine, left for Budapest a few hours after picking us up from the airport (where another lady gently crashed into her car - after Chris and I were half an hour late because we left something on the plane in Frankfurt).
We have an enormous porch that overlooks a bucolic pasture. There is a hotel complex’s pool just to the left of this view. On our run this afternoon, Chris and I figured out how we might sneak in and go for a swim!
Our apartment is HUGE (nearly five times the size of our “apartment” in Providence). We have a kitchen, a dining room, a living room, two bedrooms, TWO bathrooms, and TWO hallways. Each of the main rooms opens onto our porch, so we get lots of sunlight and fresh air:)
For our first European dinner, we had une baguette, du fromage francais, du salade, et du chocolat suisse. Voila!
