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B 15: Photo/ postcard size/ landscape/colour/ first day in Switzerland

B 15: Photo/ postcard size/ landscape/colour/ first day in Switzerland

After a long journey I finally arrived in Switzerland. I'd chosen to travel by bus rather than fly. That way I had more time, because the thought of arriving in a foreign country and meeting my intended husband, whom I'd only known through letters, telephone calls and photos, made me pretty nervous.

Mükerrem G., born 1965, from Ankara, Turkey