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Venice, April 2009
The third incarnation of tapxe.com: traveling, photography, and our expat experience
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People from above, Prague November 2010
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Get your xmas tree in Zürich from the city forest →
You can even order one online and have it delivered… in NYC I had to carry it home 10 blocks!
Update December 13th: we went to the Zurich xmas tree lot and found all the trees to be somewhat thin. See newer post on Familie Ogg Landwirtshaft for a better place to get a tree!
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Around Zurich in early November 2010.
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Up Mt. Pilatus. Worlds steepest cog railway.
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Prague, November 2010
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Walking through a train station in Switzerland you are confronted by one of two forms of advertisements: xenophobic ones from the SVP or well ones from Tally Weijl. I’ll save the commentary on Tally Weijl for later as tonight I want to better understand what the SVP ones are all about. Surely they are anti-immigration, but what is the difference between the ausschaffungsinitiative and the gegenentwurf? Who is Ivan S?
Starting with the one on the right, the SVP wants you to vote yes to the Ausschaffungsinitiative making it easier to expel/deport foreigners convicted of crimes in Switzerland and revoke their residency permits.
On the left side, the SVP wants you to vote no to the counter-proposal (gegenentwurf) This counter-proposal would still allow for the expulsion of criminals, but according to swissinfo.ch “insists on case-by-case examination in line with international law and the Swiss constitution. It also includes measures to boost integration.”
Ivan S? He’s actually Hispanic. The SVP bought his photo from a stockphoto website, gave him a slavic name and put a black box over his eyes.
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