It’s been a long journey to get here, but today after two hours of administrative banter in an office tucked in a back street in Bern, my days of a being semi-legal country-wandering jobless nomad student are over! Included in the Bern official welcome package.. a little city map, a free public transport ticket, and 6 65mg iodine tablets.. “to be used in the event of the explosion of a nuclear facility”.. hmmm…