Lost and Found

Some of you of course know that my fiancée was born in Switzerland and has lived in Australia since 2000, and that all of her family still lives in Germany and Switzerland. During the past nine years we have had discussions on and off about going to work and live over there. In 2003 we made an attempt but I was offered a lucrative promotion at work and we decided to stay in Sydney.

My fiancée had been looking at Swiss roles casually for the past 12 months, and recently a great one came up. After a number of interviews and a whirlwind 38 hour visit to Zurich, she has been offered and has accepted the role. She starts on October 1^st and we will be moving over there early September.

It will be another exciting chapter in our lives. Having worked in Darwin I have proven that I can survive being away from family and friends. If anything the past nine months were even more difficult given I was up there alone.

We have a whole bunch of travel planned between now and when we leave, starting with two weeks in Hawaii from this Friday. We head to NZ for two weeks in August and will probably end up somewhere in Europe in the weeks before she starts her new role. All in all this is a very exciting and somewhat scary time. My first two priorities will be learning to speak better German and finding a job. I can only be a kept man for so long it seems.