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Personal information |
| Name: | Tanya Harvey Ciampi Contact me... |
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| Born in: | Reading (England), 1969 | |
| Nationality: | Swiss/British | |
| Daughter of: | Edward H. Harvey, mechanical engineer and former managing
director of Albe (England) Ltd. (precision tool manufacturing company) –
the UK branch of the Swiss company Albe SA in Agno, later taken
over by Mikron –
and the UK branch of Moutier-based Tornos Bechler (manufacturer of
automatic lathes). He also worked with AGIE in Losone. In his spare time, inventor of Polydron (available from Vivishop in Switzerland). |
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| Grew up in: | Lane End, a small village in the heart of the English countryside (county Buckinghamshire, England) |  |
| West coast of Ireland: childhood holidays spent near Clifden, County Galway, on a secluded bay frequently visited by bottle-nose dolphins and famous for Guglielmo Marconi's first-ever transatlantic radiotelegraphic communication link. |  |
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| Studied in: | High Wycombe (Godstowe Preparatory School) Buckinghamshire, England) Lugano Zurich (Dolmetscherschule Zürich) Guildford (University of Surrey, Surrey, England) |
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| Married: | Since 2000 to Angelo Ciampi, Italian teacher at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur (ZHW): Department of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Zurich, Switzerland |
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| Have worked in: | London, Slough (England), Locarno, Lugano, Zurich (Switzerland), as well as from home as a freelancer | |
| Live in: | Verscio, a small village in the picturesque Centovalli (=one hundred valleys) region of Ticino, Switzerland's Italian-speaking canton. Moving to the nearby village of Maggia in the green Vallemaggia (Maggia Valley, 20 minutes' drive from Locarno) at the end of 2006.
Ten minutes' drive from Locarno, the venue of the world-famous Locarno Film Festival.
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| Things I like: | Thunderstorms, the smell of jasmine flowers in the warm summer air, dark green velvet moss, the smell of freshly mown grass, Angelo's cooking, fishing with my father in Ireland, travelling and discovering other cultures and cuisines, the crystal clear water of the Maggia Valley... and playing scrabble online with other people. | |
| Favourite food: | Thai green curry, Peruvian ceviche, Indian curry
(recipe from old friend Raj Pangrekar), smoked salmon, cockles, mussels and shrimps
freshly caught by my dad in Connemara, Ireland. See some of my recipes... |
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| Favourite music: | Folk, celtic, country | |
| Favourite musical instruments: | Tin whistle, recorder, bodhrán, fiddle, guitar | |
| Favourite pastimes: | Cycling, photography (some of my photographs are available
for sale here: http://www.photographersdirect.com) See pictures below: |
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