Mom has come to visit for a while and so we took a week-long trip down through France and Italy to show her some of the local sights. Over eight days, we visited seven different cities: Bern, Geneva, Lyon, Grenoble, Turino, Milano, and Lugano.
This was, perhaps, overly ambitious as it meant moving from one […]
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After seven weeks, we almost got everything unpacked. It’s been a busy couple weeks for us. Last weekend we finally got a vehicle: a 2002 Opal Zafira minivan. Yes, I’ve become a minivan owner. Does that count against my image of an exotic world traveller?
It’s small as minivans go, which […]
I’m a little late posting this, but on our second weekend in Switzerland we too Christophe to the zoo. I don’t think he got quite enough sleep the night before because he was somewhat cranky but he generally enjoyed seeing all the animals. We saw snakes and penguins and elephants and lions and […]
(I don’t have my computers yet so no way to access the photos I’ve taken. I’ll try to add some at a later time but for now it’s just text.)
Does it count as a new day when you never finished the previous one? A mad rush to finish everything on Wednesday before catching our flight […]
My last week in Zurich has come to a close. I won’t be back again until May when I bring the rest of my family. It’s been busy with classes in most mornings and a self-learning schedule for the rest of the day (plus various talks and meetings). I surely haven’t been […]
My first week of work for Google is now over and what a week it has been. It’s frustrating in a way because I’ve learned about so many cool and interesting (to geeks) things and yet I’m not supposed to talk about them. <sigh> C’est la vie!
So what can I say? It’s […]
Pain! Oh, wait… That’s how I started yesterday. It’s not as bad today anyway.
Tired! I went to bed last night around 11pm but my body still hasn’t adjusted to local time and so decided it was time to wake up after a 3-hour late-afternoon nap. <sigh> I did eventually […]
Pain! I’m not used to the amount of walking I did the first day/night I was in Zurich. My heels ached this morning and my shins shouted at me every time I took steps downhill. It eased up as soon as I got moving but I wisely bought a 24hr tram ticket […]
Standing up can be a bit painful after being in a chair for 8 hours. My knee was still somewhat twisted from the way I had been sleeping, but I was finally here in Zurich and ready to start a new adventure.
My first thought while heading up the walkway from the plane was that this […]
