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Switzerland
When I was in Switzerland recently I noticed this sign in the men’s room at my client’s site. I never established whether the same advice was offered to women. This is something that I wondered about decided not to ask.
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As I enjoy a lovely sunny Autumn day in England today I can look back at the bleak and grey photos from last week in Basel and smile.
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Someone has left their initials on this electricity box, which also sports a faded and worn poster protesting against people trafficing and prostitution.
Spotted the other night in downtown Basel.
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I thought this was a somewhat quaint & retro bicycle, with its bespoke leather carry-bag, dynamo on the front wheel to power a light, and carrier-bag saddle cover to keep the seat dry.
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I was working in Basel this past week, and I spotted a lot of graffiti in public places. Besides for the depressingly grey weather and the efficient trams the place didn’t really remind me of the Basel I had visited a few years ago. There were even stickers with graffiti designs plastered on walls and signposts.
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This is a Swiss swan, on the Rhine River at Basel.
Today I have had problems accessing Bloglines, which I use to keep in touch with a number of blogs (and news sites that have RSS feeds). It makes me wonder if I have become too dependent on this one aggregation tool, especially since Bloglines was recently acquired by Ask Jeeves.
Apparently they are planning to integrate Bloglines into their MyJeeves and Excite.com products. And no doubt they will introduce advertising.
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And you thought all spiders had 8 legs? Seems this is not the case in Switzerland.
Gregorian New Year greetings to everyone. After a 6 hour drive (plus stoppage-, and Channel tunnel-time) we made it back to Oxted. On the way I managed to shed my wallet of most of its Euros. I don’t think bluemeanie was as lucky. However I have too many Swiss francs left.
Firework time ...
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As you can see conditions were clear in Leysin this morning with no mist and a lot less cloud over the opposite mountains than yesterday. It was about -2C outside, and after breakfast we packed the car, checked out of the hotel and then headed off to the village where we arbed around for an hour or so. Then we hit the road back to Haguenau. It was amazing to see the cars streaming up the hill in the opposite direction as we left Leysin. The main parking areas in the town were full of skiers, and they opened extra parking at the sports centre (serviced with a shuttle bus to the cable-car station).
After just over four hours of driving (and a bit more elapsed time) we were in Haguenau, and extremely hungry. Which is when we discovered that it is impossible to find a restaurant open at 4 PM, unless it is McDo or a Turkish kebab shop. Eventually we drove off to Strasbourg where we caught an Italian supper and then a movie - Ocean’s 12, VOST (Version Originale Sous-Titre).
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