live in Switzerland now
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 27th, 2008
Today we took a trip to the town of Appenzell capital of canton Appenzell, one of three remaining cantons in Switzerland where people still vote en-masse in town square by show of hands. They save up all the year’s issues and elections and the people come in from the farms and sort them all out [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 19th, 2008
EGU general assembly in Vienna… one full week of conference… Which also made for a good chance to visit Vanessa and Ben. Saturday Sunday Jan and I walked all around Vienna checking out the Hapsburg elegance, and had some good meals with our hosts (who were in the process of moving). We got a chance [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 6th, 2008
Flims Laax Falera that is. For this, Jan’s first skiing experience in Switzerland, things had to be just right… The morning involved a long bus ride, next to no visibility, some sweet falls, and a half hour forced death march when the lift we were going to take suddenly closed. The afternoon was a different [...]