I'm not an expat, but I've been a member of a few expat forums since 3 years and there's one thing australian people mention they should have bring more, it's

...vegemite...

;-)

and be welcome (very soon) in Geneva.

hahaha im australian and I hate vegemite!

Jerome - I am Kiwi and with you.... Marmite it has to be (and not the UK stuff...)

A hot companion.

Definantly, I cannot stand the stuff! I also have a Kiwi citizenship so perhaps thats why!

I'll have to find one in geneva!

Good luck with that but not that many of them here. Better BYO ;)

hahah thanks for the advice!

Cenovis is a good alterntive to Marmite, Vegemite and their like.

Tea! I got used to drinking really good tea in the UK... but the Brits keep all the good stuff for themselves It's pretty hard to find some really good tea in France or Switzerland...

Check keyboard you write with . getting a keyboard "qwerty" syle is almost a impossible in retails around the city. . 

Dude are you serious?! Switzerland uses "qwertz" there's only one letter that differs...

It's the remainder of the keys that'll trip someone up.  The > < ; _ - ? + stuff is a huge nuisance to someone who hasn't retrained themselves.

Because you use <> a lot? Ahhh the youngsters and their sign language ;)

QWERTZ is hardly as shocking as AZERTI plus you can assign whatever keyboard you want from software and for the signs that you use frequently you don't even need to look at the keys.

Its ok, ill be bringing me own laptop! :D:D:D

Thanks for the advice, ill be bringing some tea from downunder

tea shops of course with large variety of fancy tea that costs an eye sure... but the TG Tips tea bags king that come in big boxes in the UK supermarkets, I now know one shop near the station in Lausanne and Jim's British market in Gland that sell them... you may have more indeed in Geneva, I didn't check the Geneva forum. Of course a flight to the UK is always better, I love going back and tea is not the only thing I miss from there

"but the TG Tips tea bags king that come in big boxes in the UK supermarkets"

oops meant kind...

Izzie you can get the PG Tips king size bags at Indian/Pakistani stores...I get them in Geneva from there. You can also find them in Carrefour.

Bring your Wellington Boots because you will be knee deep in clunge!!!

At the risk of turning this into a "love it or hate it" forum - Cenovis is NOT a "good alternative" - its not EVEN an "alternative".

And the Coop now sells Marmite (and their own brand T Bags are just as good as any other's I've found - and I'm a great tea drinker).

Just bring an extra suitcase full of patience (plus a grammar book "would of" ??? - purlease!!).

You're absoltely right! Cenovis is not an alternative: it's the original stuff. Marmite and Vegemite are just poor substitutes called "alternatives" so that they do no look too bad.

depends how you like your T Carolyn honey... I like mine strong with just a tiny drop of milk please

Try the word "derivatives" it fits better.  And like a derivative it's in-pure (not the real thing) yet often highly leverage to make you believe you're on the path to a better trade off. 

I was joking Maurice, not trying to demonstrate my command of English or give a marketing lesson.

Derivative: something that comes from something else; a substance that is made from another substance. That’s not what I was reffering to.

Alternative: offering or expressing a choice. OK, the word "alternative" should be used before a noun but "good alternative to Marmite or Vegemite" was was implicit.

But thanks for the lecture anyway  

An Aussie/Swiss adaptor .  Tim Tams. Minties

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