wishing for a wifi miracle

Some of you might have wondered about the light posting over the past few days. Well, clan Eisenberg traveled to Switzerland to visit my family. We did a house swap with an old friend of mine and so we are staying in the most stylish, designy place you can imagine. e are surrounded by lots of pieces by Eames and Corbusier. Heavenly, to say the least. Only draw-back: They have no wifi. And nor do the neighbors. Nada. Zilch. Kapputt. (Who knew? I just assumed everyone has wifi these days. Facepalm.)

Yes, I hear you all, it is great to disconnect, yadda yadda. But come on, just give me 10 minutes a day to have a teeny tiny looksie at the interwebs.

And as we are going to stay here all week, there will be unfortunately not much blogging goodness happening. Unless some wifi miracle will come upon us here in the lovely mountains of Appenzell.

I wish you all a fantastic week. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Gobble! Gobble!

Waving from the Swiss Alps.

(this is my first post done entirely on my iphone)

30 Comments leave a comment below

  1. I fear the moment you open your inbox back home :P

    Juan Garberi
    Nov 21st, 2011 / 12:05 pm

  3. vollstes lob von den besuchern von typo st. gallen!

    ew
    Nov 21st, 2011 / 12:20 pm

  4. waving back from Zurich Studio (with WiFi). You can easily come over for 10 minutes a day and do your blogging from here. This is an invitation! :-D

    Jeannette
    Nov 21st, 2011 / 1:05 pm

  5. I’ve been to Appenzell, and if I have to, I’ll start a petition to keep it WiFi Free. It’s heavenly there.

    eric
    Nov 21st, 2011 / 1:12 pm

  6. Couldn’t just continue blogging from your iPhone? Even just a little of the Swiss Miss a day keeps the working blues away. Happy Holidays.

    Paul Bunyar
    Nov 21st, 2011 / 3:01 pm

  7. SIMSALABIM. I miss you.

    martina
    Nov 21st, 2011 / 3:18 pm

  9. Enjoy the stress free time and greetings back to my home country!!

    Konrad Zurcher
    Nov 21st, 2011 / 4:57 pm

  10. don’t they have pre-paid 3G in Switzerland?

    In Germany, Deutsche Telekom does flat rate internet via 3G modem at Euro 4.95 a day. While not cheap it’s fast and convenient and I can recharge my account the moment I arrive at Frankfurt airport.

    Have a look at Swisscom. They do a Natel data Easy Pre-paid pay as you go plan for CHF 7.5 per day. They probably do a starter pack with modem for very little money.

    Tom
    Nov 21st, 2011 / 5:42 pm

  11. I was wondering what was going on… I thought my cache was playing tricks on me. Have a lovely rest of your week! Take pictures damnit!

    Levi
    Nov 21st, 2011 / 8:01 pm

  12. Umm… your staying in a beautiful home in Switzerland and you’re complaining? Snap out of it girl. Enjoy yourself. Hundreds, thousands, millions maybe, would love to be in your sad shoes.

    kelly
    Nov 21st, 2011 / 9:08 pm

  13. i love the switzerland so much ;)

    Karla
    Nov 22nd, 2011 / 2:25 am

  14. One day we will have woven WiFi into all the wonderful places in the world.

    Meanwhile…empathy baby… from me to you!

    Best,
    Roger

    Roger Ellman
    Nov 22nd, 2011 / 7:46 am

  15. Genau! Gnüsses!

    Rebi
    Nov 22nd, 2011 / 11:01 am

  16. This is normal for many parts of Europe, sorry to break it to all of you that are so used to open wifi networks, an internet cafe or Starbucks on every corner! ;0)

    Sammy
    Nov 22nd, 2011 / 1:15 pm

  17. Staying off the interwebs can be freeing. But ignorance is only bliss in the short term, IMHO. SOME of what wifi connects us to IS reports of real life. Too much information is confusing, too little information causes brain atrophy. We don’t need any more of THAT. – phil

    phil ford
    Nov 22nd, 2011 / 1:21 pm

  18. I’ll be visiting our home-country over Christmas (Freiburg), thankfully my parents are tech-savvy thanks to my brothers and have wifi. Frohe Festtage!

    Silvia McClure
    Nov 22nd, 2011 / 1:59 pm

  19. Do take some pics and post them please!

    Antonio
    Nov 22nd, 2011 / 2:55 pm

  20. Pics (of the furniture) or it didn’t happen!

    Mike
    Nov 22nd, 2011 / 5:07 pm

  21. I hope you had a good time, Hello from Essex!

    Wedding photographer in Essex
    Nov 23rd, 2011 / 6:52 am

  22. Why do so many assume that *not* having wifi is stressful? People of earth: some of us need the interwebs for work & so on. It’s silly to assume your experience of (apparently) stressful wifi is everyone else’s. I really cannot stand that attitude.

    I hope you can find some wifi nearby, Tina. I see someone has offered a connection…don’t know if it’s near you or not. Have a good visit, though. xo

    Susan
    Nov 23rd, 2011 / 8:47 am

  23. Oh phew I am not alone after all!

    Zana Fauzi
    Nov 23rd, 2011 / 11:52 am

  24. Ehm… don’t they have an internet connection at all? It’s always possible, as far as I remember, to connect someone’s LAN-cable to your device…

    abee
    Nov 24th, 2011 / 9:46 am

  25. I just had a similar situation in Germany… didn’t really end up missing it though. Change how I use it ever since I’m back.

    Have a great time.

    Hans Eich
    Nov 24th, 2011 / 11:36 am

  26. I would gladly trade my wi-fi’d home in Chicago for that unWI-FI’d place in Switzerland for a week!

    Dylan
    Nov 24th, 2011 / 12:11 pm

  27. My student apartments don’t allow for Wi-Fi to be used because of their pricing method and horrific wiring system. Pretty crap, to say the least, but it hasn’t stopped me yet!

    Finn
    Nov 25th, 2011 / 9:18 pm

  29. nice first post on iphone :)

    tech geek
    Nov 28th, 2011 / 4:49 pm

  30. made me thought to this episode of Southpark ;) http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s12e06-over-logging
    grüssli from Switzerland ;)

    élo
    Dec 11th, 2011 / 11:59 am