Zürifäscht

Went to Zürifäscht yesterday, i.e. Zurich-Fest, Zurich-party, organized every 3 years. Crazyness, 700k people in the center of a 350k city. It got transformed in a city-entertainment-park, with lots of food, drinks, drunks, and adrenaline-pumping rollercoaster-like devices. Wheehee. Luckily I met two friends-of-friends, with whom I had a nice time. Big wheel, good food and…

cannes

home for a week. took vacation between projects. that and the unusual heavy tropical rainfalls coming daily around the same hour in this area would have been the subject of this very short post till about 10 mins ago, when i found out about cannes. romania had 2 entries in the festival. one movie called…

UEFA

On the way back from zurich to the village on the other side of Confederatio Helvetica where I am still located for this project, I stopped briefly in Fribourg, a nice old town in shades of grey, with an impressive cathedral (like most towns here). Pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/explorish/fribourg. i live close to Lausanne, but i…

piste du diable

Sunday, March 25, 2007, 23:45 Taking advantage of the big sales going on, and inspired by the late winter, I bought meself ski equipment on Saturday. Skis and boots and everything. Doing that (plus a haircut) took a while, coz the cheapest skis were sinfully ugly, not even cool-ugly, just plain ugly, not pleasant to…

cars & ski

Those were highlights of this week-end. Yesterday, the Geneva autoshow – HUGE, many cars, crowded.. was ok, nothing mindboggling, maybe car-fans would have had more of a “mekka” feeling, for me it was just interesting. Was more excited today, went for half-a-day skiing in Verbier. Uh, skis you don’t see you forget. After the first…