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My adventures as an expat living in Switzerland.

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April 14, 2019 + Ultimate Bucketlist

Bucket List Item #44 and #46: Meet Tommy Wiseau, See The Room in Theaters

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I got to meet Tommy WIseau. Things got weird.

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March 6, 2018 + mental health

How to Overcome Travel Anxiety

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Managing Mental Health On The Road

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March 5, 2018 + Ultimate Bucketlist

Ultimate Bucket List #74: Visit Stonehenge

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#74 crossed off the list.

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February 12, 2018 + Travel, Ultimate Bucketlist

My Ultimate Bucket List

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Because life is too short.

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November 24, 2017 + mental health

How To Travel When You’re Depressed

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Managing Mental Health On The Road

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November 1, 2017 + Literary Tour Of..., Travel

Literary Tour of Dublin

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Dublin for Literary Buffs

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September 7, 2017 + mental health

Learning to Find My Voice Again

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An update on where I’ve been.

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April 20, 2017 + Switzerland, Travel

The Most Hilarious Street Signs in Switzerland

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Warning: this post is full of bad puns.

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April 17, 2017 + mental health

We Need To Talk About Mental Health

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Who is FemaleHemingway?

I'm Tess. In 2016, I decided to leave behind my job, my friends, my life in NYC to start a new one in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Instagram post 2187066164562428680_20994361 Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 It’s my third thanksgiving in Switzerland and I have so much to be grateful for. I’m grateful to have a job I seriously love (finally), incredible friends far and wide, and for the chance to love and be loved by my best friend and love of my life @michi_sensei. I’m grateful for Swiss sunsets and Christmas markets, good books and winter chill. I’m grateful for all of the privilege I have been afforded in my life and all of the magic I’ve created for myself with the help of the people around me. And though I haven’t been as active on here lately, I’m also thankful for all of you! Whether you celebrate or not, I wish you a wonderful day full of good food and even better company. Happy thanksgiving, lovelies! May your turkey never be dry. ❤️🦃🍁
Instagram post 2181954806141540024_20994361 Zurich is slowly glowing up for the holiday season and I’m so excited! Tonight, the christmas markets officially open their doors and the lights on Bahnhofstrasse turn on so it’s a magical day to be here. But last week, I celebrated a bit early @illuminarium.ch, my favorite christmas light show of the season! It’s open until December 30th and is truly the most magical way to kick off the holidays 🌲 🥰 Switzerland looks best when it’s covered in sparkling lights and blankets of snow ❄️ so I’m so happy that the people from Illuminarium invited me back to kick off the season with a bang. I mean, how often do you get to see christmas lights on a castle? 😻🔥 #femalehemingwaychristmas
Instagram post 2166711273604350289_20994361 Happy Halloween! 🎃👻 Get you a significant other who looks this cute posing in a pumpkin patch with a book. 🎃✨ #juckerfarm
Instagram post 2158719999781728494_20994361 Sorry if I’ve been horrible at being an instagrammer, but if you need me, I’m most likely in a pumpkin patch somewhere, drinking a pumpkin beer and reading Shirley Jackson 👻🧛‍♀️ (Also, yes, Halloween is 90% of my personality in October. Sorry 😘) #bewaretheautumnpeople
Instagram post 2153918317747069318_20994361 It’s that time of year again and I’m THRIVING 🎃 I’m happy @jucker_farm exists so my basic pumpkin heart can run wild and free. ✨ #juckerfarmseegräben
Instagram post 2138562350224203710_20994361 “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons” -Jim Bishop 🍁 It’s finally my favorite season which means I made a new autumnal Lightroom filter and plan to be smiling like this for the rest of the season 🍂 #bewaretheautumnpeople
Instagram post 2129134221491635898_20994361 I partnered with the lovely people at @stadtbaden to give you a guide to the city of Baden. 😻 There are so many reasons to visit Baden. Delicious food, medieval buildings, thermal baths. Here are just a few more reasons why Baden is the best: ⁣
🧽 it’s a city that has over 2,000 years of wellness and now you can find thermal baths all over the city ⁣
🧽 it’s only a 20 minute ride from Zurich HB⁣
🧽 the architecture! the food! the cobblestone streets! 😻⁣
🧽 Gorgeous buildings and fairytale streets. 
I wrote up a guide on my blog that will convince you to put Baden on your Swiss travel bucket list! Link in bio ✨ #badenist #ilovebaden ⁣
Instagram post 2126883291341601755_20994361 Beautiful blausee twinkling in the morning light ✨🦋 This place has been on my Swiss bucket list forever and it was just as beautiful as I expected it to be! I would absolutely suggest getting there at 9 am, as soon as the nature park opens because you’ll have the lake almost all to yourself. We left around noon and there was already a line to get on this rock. When we took this photo there was no one around and it was silent and serene😻💙 #blausee
Instagram post 2124616538280500211_20994361 Happy anniversary to my partner in life and crime 💕😻 You make loving you so easy and I’m so lucky to love and be loved by you. It feels like we’ve been together for 2 seconds and 70 years all at once and I’m so excited for all the adventures the future has in store for us. I love you always ❤️ and for everyone else reading this: Find yourself someone who makes you smile this wide and laugh this hard and who still gives you butterflies years after they’re supposed to have faded.  I’m so lucky to have fallen in love with my best friend 🦋 💙
Instagram post 2122746329944845199_20994361 I’ve lived in Switzerland for three years and yet I still can’t help but run into an open field whenever I see one and twirl around, while the “Hills are Alive” plays softly in my head 🎶 Will that ever change? Probably not. 🤷🏻‍♀️ And that’s okay with me ✨
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