Long story short, my now husband is Swiss. I originally planned to live there for a year or two but it turned out to be six! By the end of the summer, I’d found a job and a boyfriend and decided to stay. I had a couple of friends from Freiburg who’d spent a student exchange year at my university, so I had people to meet up with. When I won a scholarship to do a summer course at the Goethe-Institut in Freiburg im Breisgau, I jumped at the opportunity. I’d spent a summer at Düsseldorf two years previously and had kept up my German with classes in Dublin. Norway was at the top of my list but the living costs were insane. How did that happen?Īfter finishing university, I wanted to spend a year or two in a foreign country and learn a new-to-me language. Each summer, I was shipped off to spend the holidays with relatives, and a couple of those towns influenced the geography of Ballybeg, the fictional town where my Irish contemporary romances are set. Irish school summer holidays are long-two months for primary schools and three months for secondary schools. My grandparents lived in Kerry and I also have family in Cork.
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