Potatoes contribute to global warming (if you know what I mean...)
Swiss are environmentally conscious people....
On second thoughts....making cheese produces more methane...

1year and 3 days... still adapting...

8 months! Going strong. I moved here to see how things would/will go with my boyfriend, and I must say, everything is great!
Although I am still trying to find a part time job and some girlfriends in Luzern, but otherwise it is a very enriching and fulfilling experience. Wouldn't trade it for the world. :0)

No, we didnt ask happened so strangely - went from "just pulling you over for a routine check" to a bunch of questions about where we were driving to/from to a bunch of questions about what we were doing in Switzerland to "okay well you were tailgating the car in front so you'll get a fine in the mail".. it was just confusing and went over our heads and neither of us thought to question it..

Its so frustrating, because we definitely werent tailgating (as I said, I'm annoying and nag about stuff like that!!) - and this is the same incident where the cop said Luke showed his Australian licence which also didnt happen errrrrr.

If we had been in the wrong, I would accept it. And if we could afford it, I would just let it go. But we can't afford to live in Switzerland, but we can't afford to leave. Sighh I am a whinger. Oh well. I'll give it a couple more months before I write the sheepish email to my parents asking them to bail me out!

Oh dear, how frustrating for you. This is turning out to be even more of a police state than I had thought. Try not to get too despondent though, and throw in the towel completely. I wonder if anyone else had been pulled up for a similar 'offence' and can give advice?

Oh c'mon, you just have to get used to the rules. My advice is pay the fine and also if you cannot afford fines, then don't drive. Cars are expensive.

Btw, I have been pulled over, ordered out of a car (not mine), had it confiscated and then was booked. My ID was only a Visa card as I had changed bags for a date, which just added to the fun. 120 chfs + whatever is nothing compared to going to jail. The charges were dropped the next day though, as it really wasn't my fault. Well, except for the credit card bit and they dropped that too.

You were lucky! Really, though, my point was that all those charges seem to have been thrown around without any evidence to substantiate them, which does not seem fair at all. Given the circumstances, I do not see why the OP should just 'pay the fine.'

Umm I am used to the rules.. I am not used to being bothered by cops when we werent doing anything wrong and then cops making up lies. Or is that a rule here?

Anyway if its not that its; me, today, leaving my wallet sitting on a seat and the old man who had come and sat next to me to smoke all over me not having the decency to tell me my wallet was there - just smirking at me as he walked off.

Maybe I had too much good luck in Australia with things like this, and now I have run out so its all turned to sh*t.. and I REALISE all the things I whinge about arent anybody's fault but my own.. but it just feels like its always one step forward, two steps back here and its getting too hard..

7 months this week.

What a Brick,Pastard

He wasss.. I wondered what his satisfied little smirk was for, then when I got on the train and saw my wallet sitting there as the train took off I realised!!

Dammit

6 yrs and just as i had begun to like this place, i'm off again....
(but like i promised jacek, i will be back )

For the sake of being fair and balanced and sh*t, a nice man found my wallet and (obviously deciding against handing it in to the sbb office at the station which was the only move I had anticipated and had left my number there) saw my video shop membership card so handed it in to the video shop

Unfortunately we had given the video shop Luke's mobile number, but his phone stopped working a few days ago (one step forward two steps back always!) so we couldnt be contacted.
Luckily Luke decided to go into the video shop today and the guy recognised him (not sure if he recognised him as my partner or from the cute picture I have in my wallet ) and gave him my wallet.
Soo thank God for nice people and for living in a small town with a small video shop

22 years, 4 months, 23 days, +/- 12 hours... and counting.

Lucy...you can call them and they should allow you to pay it in parts...Just tell them you can't afford to pay all at once...(I think this is still possible) Good Luck...

Thank you.. we shall try that
He got another one, because he is losing his licence for a month because of the tailgating thing, and apparently you get a 300chf+ fine if you lose your licence?
Sighhhhh!!

Also - when he organised his car insurance the guy doing it asked if he had lost his licence before, I think that now that he has, he should let the insurer know.. should he? He doesnt seem to think so.. but it seems like he should..

6 years....only seems like yesterday.......it was Friday!!

6 years And for my wife isay yes But i still think of my frends still fight a war. And i think if this realy right to come in sted go to war. so iam here for now.

29 years and what a ride.

One year and 9 months.
Was just tired of dating my uncles...