When asking about Virginie’s previous career, she laughs and replies ‘What else would someone from Geneva do? I was a jeweller and designer!’.
As stereotypical as it sounds, Virginie’s earlier half of life contrasts considerably to that now. From the Alps to coastal plains, watch design to wildlife, boutiques to bush, Virginie is most at home here now, either in her garden or immersed at work in the Chapman River Regional Park.
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