I've more or less reached the opposite conclusion for similar reasons. That is, yeah, when I'm programming in Python, I don't really notice the language at all. There's a definite flavor to the experience of programming in C++ and another to the experience of programming in Java and another to Haskell, the particular kinds of things I have to do in each case to get the language to do my bidding, but when I'm programming in Python, the language is almost transparent; the experience is almost entirely about the program I'm trying to write, the problem I'm trying to solve.
I moved from Perl to Python. I noticed Python was harder to do "clever stuff" with - the sort you would see in Perl one liners.
My code is a little more verbose in Python, but I notice I don't shoot myself in the foot by trying to be too clever too early, and ending up with a tangled mess a few days later.
And that's exactly what I want, these days.