Looks like I found a place to stay for the rest of my three months at CERN today.
A place in Thoiry shared with the owner of the house.
And I can see the top of Europe, the Mt. Blanc, and the lake from my window … ahh!
Home sweet home!
Category Archives: Geneva
Snowboooaaarding! [Update]
Aaahhhh … what a day … I finally managed to go snowboarding for the second time this season … hmm … beautiful place (Verbier) and beautiful weather … but now I am destroyed …
Great day that was almost not going to happen, since my board was caught in a basement where everyone that had a key to it was gone over the weekend … man … but luckily Esben was so nice to borrow me his board to save the day … thanks man!
[Update]
I just remembered to mention that I even jumped out of the lift to get the real off-piste experience … rock on!
Holidays
Just a short sum up of the holidays that passed by in the last couple of weeks …
Having left Geneva on Dec 19th I dropped Johanna and Tom somewhere north of Frankfurt and after a nice evening, a good night’s sleep I continued towards Berlin …
During the days before Christmas I (unfortunately) entered the Christmas shopping world, which immediately took away the last bit of joyful anticipation towards the holidays!
Anyway after these trouble I tried to enjoy my first appointment free Chistmas eve and almost failed since I had to notice (for the first time) that shops close at times like 13h or 15h on that day … which is bad in case you need something urgently at about 18h …
Thanks to the Indian’s (who do not celebrate at this day) we managed to fill up my new dehydrating machine :) with fresh fruits and vegies in the end.
The rest of the holidays was quite relaxing and nearly as expected …
After this trouble we (being seven and a half friend and me) drove out to the Swedish outback to spend a couple of days, including New Year’s Eve, in a hut (thanks to Esben, greetz).
Besides some troubles with fuses, missing heating, dead animals and overflowing shit-tanks everything went well and we had a great time …
And now I am back for work in Zeuthen (the small village close to Berlin) …
Finally some skiing
Yesterday, I finally managed to go skiing (or better snowboarding) for once this year (and unfortunately maybe also for this season).
I went to Les Diablerets with some friends (greetz) and spent a whole day in the boots … ;)
Great fun even though we left Geneva at about 6:30 am!
We rounded off the day with a nice dinner (actually I had another one with my roomies afterwards … also very nice).
Double Fondue and the Escalade
This weekend was kind of exhausting … it started with cheese fondue at Regina’s on Friday (and cheese fondue is no fun … it tough work), continued with turkey-shopping for Wednesday’s Christmas Party and watching some friends running on the Escalade in Geneva and another cheese fondue at Daniel’s (the was a little lack of coordination … apparently) and ws rounded of with my shift this morning (7h-15h) and some korean food (which I am going to get in about two hours) …
all really nice, but usually just too much … puh …