I just returned to Switzerland yesterday night. A tiring journey: it set off in a taxi to the airport in Shanghai at around 7am and arrived at my parent’s home by 22pm (+7h), meaning 22h of travelling.
I’m having some mixed feelings at the moment: Happy to meet Sarra, my parents, my brothers and all friends here, but also sad to leave some very good friends in Shanghai! I really had a great time with all of them and I’m already missing them…

Some of the first things I noticed here in Switzerland:
It’s empty! There are almost no people wherever and whenever you go somewhere.
And it’s so quiet! I just love that at night, there’s really no sound at all. No distant car horn, no ventilation or heating system humming in the background, just pure quiet. Sounds good, isn’t it?
And it feels so good, to open any water tab, and having pure mineral water flowing out if it! What a pleasure! The water here is a million times better than any purified, specially treated liquid you could possibly find in Shanghai! And it just comes out of the tab. *Shuang!!!* (this is one of my favourite words in Chinese: it literally translates into: you feel good through your whole body: from the tip of the toes to the head. One can further exaggerate it by making heavy use of the third tone: taking the voice all down and high up again to express!).

The next few days I’ll probably just try to get rid off my jetlag, meeting some friends and trying to manage my way through some of the later images I took in China. My laptop is heavily stuffed with pictures at the moment: I took totally somewhere around 10’000 images in China! I’m glad to relocate some of them to external hard drives to start organizing things again

I hopefully post some travelling reports over here soon!

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