About
I'm Tobi, and I write these on the train.
I grew up half in Chur and half in Zürich, and I have never gotten over the plain fact that you can sit down with a coffee in one city and stand up in another without the coffee going cold.
I'm a software engineer who loves to travel, so I spend my working days in front of screens, which is probably why a day whose only moving part is a timetable feels like a holiday.
This started because I kept losing things. Not the Billet (I'm careful with the Billet), but the small stuff.
I live in Wiedikon, a few minutes from Idaplatz, with my husband Marc and a small brown dog called Lotti. Lotti has firm opinions about the door chimes on German trains, so she mostly stays with my mother in Chur when we go further than Basel.
If you grew up around the old station clocks (the ones where the red second hand sweeps the whole minute and then waits a beat at the top before it clicks over), you know the pause I mean. I try to get a few true things written down in it before the train goes.
— Tobi, Zürich