Category Archives: Geneva

The Italian wedding trip

Last weekend I went on a little trip to Italy to join in for the wedding party of two friends of mine (greetz to A & A). Along with the party, they scheduled some time for skiing and relaxation.

During last week, I then got the news that the skiing was cancelled due to too little snow on the slopes :(

Two days later I got an update saying that we wont ski because of too much snow on the pistes!?

A state that unfortunately didn’t change until our arrival on Saturday. This also ment that the location for the party and the dinner could not be reached :( But in a glorious re-booking effort they managed to find hotels in the lower village/town and a restaurant to fit all the about sixty people (mostly Italians). After a good night (in cowboy and indians costumes) we finally managed to do some skiing on Sunday before driving back to Geneva, from where I flew back with a two and a half hours delay on Monday morning (thanks for the night and dinner to J & J).

‘Mussles’ in a gogo restaurant …

… is what I just came back from! Back in Geneva, the dinner plan of the French-Danish connection was to have mussles in a gogo place in town. Sounds weird, but isn’t as bad … gogo just means all-you-can-eat for these crazy French/Swiss. Anyway we had on average three big bowles of mussles along with some fries … hmm!
And tomorrow it’s fondue night …

Good end for a (very) long day

After the short night, the morning shift at the pixel desk and the detector meeting I went out to Fort l’Ecluse to chain myself to the mountain and climb some rocks … the Ferrata there is a nice and relaxing ending for a nice day …

And now I need my bed …

The Godfather of Electronic Jazz

Woooooha! What a week … after Paul Kalkbrenner last weekend it was time for the Godfather of Electronic Jazz Mr. Laurent Garnier to play up in l’Usine Geneva … nothing but an outstanding performance!!!
I’ve waited for quite some time to see him (again) …
Together with his live band … yes this DJ has a band fo four other guys following the conductor, him!
Hmmmm … this is a must for everybody that likes even only a tiny bit of electronic music …

After the concert it’s three hours of sleep and then the control room :|

Montagne des Memises

Something about bad signs … after going to bed at about 5h45 this night (which is already kind of a bad preparation, I know) … I also managed to put my alarm an hour too early :| … 8h15 instead of 9h15 … aaargh!

Besides that … it was a beautiful hike … even though we had some rain the great views of Lake Geneva and the surrounding mountains more than made up for it …
Of course the hike is on my webpage by now …