Now you see it, now you don’t
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30th, 2008
Today I went down to Ticino to watch a precarious rock get its comeupins. This is how we treat threatening stones in Switzerland, we blast them to bits.
Monthly Archive for May, 2008
Parent Trip 2
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2008
Last weekend my parents were in Switzerland again after having spent 10 days in Italy – Europe’s Mexico. No, seriously, Italy is cool and all but here in Switzerland we are always striving to one up our flamboyant southern neighbors. So to show off the best of the best, we headed to Zermatt to glimpse [...]
Blog of Yore
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18th, 2008
A few of you might remember the old website I used to maintain at Berkeley – the blog of yesteryore. Well it will be disabled any day now, so I spent a good half of my Sunday moving all the pictures over to a Picasa web album. There is not much organization and no text [...]
Mother’s Day Death March of Terror
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13th, 2008
My parents are here (actually they just left), and we have been on a mega tour. The first day I had to fetch the late-sleepers in their hotel, and we set out on a Zurich supersightseeinggetitalldoneinonedaytour. Zurich is small and realistically has only a few highlight sights, so it can be done in a day. [...]
Swiss Conservatism
Posted in Uncategorized on May 12th, 2008
This is a poster going around right now thanks to the SVP, the conservative political party here in Switzerland. They have blanketed the country with it. Notice how most of the hands are black and brown. There is an undercurrent of ultra-conservatism here, and a seemingly sizeable percentage of the population who doesn’t really like [...]
Jan
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9th, 2008
Jan went on a field trip with work to the Gothard tunnel, the same I went to a while back (she went in a different deeper entrance). Her guide and contact (engineer at the tunnel) took this picture of her.
First Summer Hike and a Car
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5th, 2008
Sunday we decided to rent a car. But none of us knew what to do once we actually had it. This is an odd time of the season when ski resorts are closed but hiking trails are covered with an unknown amount of snow. So where to go? After hours of searching and frustration we [...]
Phil
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1st, 2008
Jan’s cousin Phil paid us a visit yesterday. He is on his way through Europe for business, purchasing and picking up wrecked helicopters here and there. Jan fixed dinner and we had a few drinks down at the beer hall, followed by lunch today. Phil is off to Germany, but we may see him again [...]