Summer heat brings with it the end of the school year and also the prospect of change. Current families due to move away, new families arriving -there’s lots of upheaval. And yet there’s also the changes that come with children growing up, that you can’t avoid...
Now, I like Emily in Paris as much as the next person and binge-watched the latest series. But I’m going to say it – Emily has sold us all a lie! Be honest, who didn’t – when first faced with the idea of moving to a chic European city like Geneva –...
“Speaking French, that’ll be easy to crack”. That’s what I thought when we started to plan our new life in Geneva. “A bit of hard work, a few embarrassing episodes but then it’ll start to slot into place.” I couldn’t envisage an alternative. And anyway I was sure...
The days go slow but the years go (really) fast… I’m not sure how it happened, but I am an empty nester. There were times I thought I’d never get an afternoon sans children, and now here I am…. with more time than I know what to do with. My children are both away at...
Books have given so much to author Kyra Wilder, and now she offers her passion and knowledge to others, with her soon to launch book and gift business Needle&Hay. She talks to The HUB: “I moved to Geneva in 2014 with a one-year-old, a three-year-old and a...
After three years teaching abroad in China, Switzerland was a calculated move for my partner and I. After years breathing polluted air that left us coughing up black bits after a run round the local park and having our photo surreptitiously (or not so subtly!) taken...
