For each and every one of us expat girls, there will be that Judy Blume summer that immortalises our childhood.
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Though not everyone will be hit as hard or at all by altitude sickness at 1,500-1,800 m, we've had enough visitors become ill at this level tend to support the theory that many will.
Read MoreMourning the dream; lessons about foreign national ownership in Switzerland
This was it, the culmination of the dream. We were trading in years of dusty labour for a lifetime of mountain air.
One day soon we'll be ready to dream again.
It is, after all, what expats do best.
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If you were to ask me why I love this place, the reasons I hate it would pop up too ...
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