About Me

Hello and welcome to another attempt at writing a regular blog. Fly, Dive & Stay is all about aviation, flight reviews, travel diaries, diving stories, and bucket list moments. But who am I?  

Born and raised in Switzerland my parents planted the travel bug into my DNA quite early. I learned that money invested into lifelong memories is never wasted money and when I look at me now, I think I take this motto sometimes too seriously. 

 

After primary and high school, I did a gap year and fell in love with scuba diving. This said, I did my Divemaster Course in Thailand and stayed on the tropical island of Koh Phangan for almost two months. This was my first travel experience without my family, and I loved it. After this gap year, I started studying biology, just to find out, it was not my thing. When the pandemic hit in spring 2020, I quit university and looked for a different career path. I was looking for a future job where I could combine my love for travel and exploring new countries with earning money. 

 

Long story short, I studied tourism management for three years – those three years consisted of two years studying in a classroom and one year of internship. During the internship year, I was granted unpaid leave to do my scuba diving instructor course in Mauritius. The second big travel adventure of my life; seven weeks in Mauritius full of learning, questioning myself, wondering if I would be able to pass the instructor exam, just to find out in the end, that the course was on a much higher level than the exam would be so that we were able to pass easily. After those seven weeks I went back home, crying tears because I had to leave my Mauritius family behind. Back in the travel agency office in grey Swiss November, I couldn’t think about anything else than going back to the tropics. Surprisingly, my school said it would count as an internship when I wish to go back to Mauritius and so, less than three months after coming home, I sat again on a plane to the island to stay for almost five months this time.  

 

In June 2022, two-thirds of my tourism studies were completed, I decided that I
needed a student job because all my excessive traveling costs money had to be earned first, and with a few coincidences, I came to DNATA, a ground handler at Zurich Airport. This job deserves its own blog post because it was the reason I fell in love with aviation and decided to stay at the airport for much longer than I thought at this point. As soon as I find the time AND creativity to write a bit more about myself, there will be a part two. But don't expect too much, the whole writing is something I really love on one hand, but on the other hand, I sometimes just "don't feel it", and as it is a hobby, there is no real reason to force myself ;)