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Elchin Asgarli in My Year In Zurich

Jun 18, 2016

Finding a permanent apartment

When you arrive to a new country, you have to build a home from scratch. It’s not just renting an apartment, but buying furniture, house appliances, and all the other miscellaneous house. I’ll describe in a later post about moving, since I want to dedicate this post to…

Elchin Asgarli in My Year In Zurich

Jan 20, 2018

Swiss German

Switzerland has four official languages: German, French, Italian and Romansh. The distribution is around 60%, 30% and 10% respectively, for German, French and Italian. The fourth language, Romansh, is spoken only by around 30,000 people, but is nevertheless an official language due to historical reasons…

Elchin Asgarli in My Year In Zurich

Jan 21, 2018

Trip to Vienna, Bratislava, and Budapest

Bratislava is only an hour away by train from Vienna, and Budapest is only three hours…

Elchin Asgarli in My Year In Zurich

Aug 29, 2016

Trip to Jordan

This will be my longest post so far, so bear with me! Jordan is definitely one of the most exotic places I ever traveled to, and to…

Elchin Asgarli in My Year In Zurich

Jan 18, 2018

Swimming in Limmat — what I learned

If you’re in Zurich in summer, you must definitely swim in Limmat! Jumping into the river from a…

Elchin Asgarli in My Year In Zurich

Mar 3, 2016

How it happened

In the summer 2015 I landed an internship at Google in Mountain View. Having liked it a lot, I decided to quit my PhD program, and join Google full time. After my interviews, references, and all that, I got an offer for a full-time software engineering position in Mountain View! Needles to say, I…

Elchin Asgarli in My Year In Zurich

Jul 3, 2016

Moving into the permanent apartment

After I found the apartment and signed the lease, it was time to move in! I bought all my furniture from IKEA and from another Googler who was moving to Norway. Overall I spent around CHF 3000, for furniture and miscellaneous stuff from IKEA. Since I had a 2 week…

Elchin Asgarli in My Year In Zurich

Feb 11, 2017

Trip to Oslo

This was quite a random trip, I took it because I got a 99CHF Black Friday flight deal from Swiss Airlines.

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Elchin Asgarli in My Year In Zurich

Nov 28, 2016

Trip to Copenhagen and Malmo

I was initially planning to go only to Copenhagen, since I was joining a friend of mine on a Euro-tour. But…

Elchin Asgarli in My Year In Zurich

Aug 24, 2017

Trip to Basel: 3 countries in 3 hours

Yes, the title is correct, I did hit 3 countries in 3 hours, and it cost me less than $10 with a special 3-zone ticket you can buy in Basel to visit across the border to Germany and France! The German city is called Weil am Rhein, and the French city is Saint…

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Travel/expat blog of a Googler who lived a year in Zurich

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