Category Archives: Geneva

Lyon, Pickpockets and Room Update

Geneva

Well … not much happaning besides work these days, as you might have guessed from the little number of posts during the last days … on the other hand I didn’t do much work on the weekendm which was supposed to be reserved for work … oh man … anyway …

On Friday I drove Heidi, Esben and Troels to Lyon, so that they could catch there cheap flight, and visited the town for the rest of the day … its quite a nice city (as I already noticed in 2005) … and again I didn’t spent enough time there …

Yesterday I spent quite some time at a police station since one of my friends got his wallet stolen while we were out for dinner … and after that we ended up in some strange pub … but obviously not strange enough to drive us out …

Today I was again working on my ‘new’ webpage instead of doing work … so the pressure (got two talks, a validation shift and the CERN Guide introduction this week) is increase … but again obviously not enough …

Anyway … for those interested I put up a new picture of my room in Geneva …<

House Warming Geneva

Family & Friends, Geneva, Switzerland

Just finished the cleanup of my Geneva House Warming … its been a very evening with some (as approved by others) very nice chilli and a couple of other nice stuff brought in by my guests.
Writing about the guests … they also put some colour on my walls, finally.
The guestbook wallpaper was filled with its first entries …
If you want to be part just come on over … all yours!

Thanks to all of you who brought some food or even an inauguration present …
and special thanks to pot lenders …

The end of an odyssey

Family & Friends, Geneva

Its done! After an almost three weeks long odyssey of trying four different drill machines with all sorts of different drill heads I finally managed to get all the wanted holes into my walls this morning!

Apparently my walls are made of super solid rock and only the forth of the drill machines could handle this situation. Thanks to everyone that took part in this odyssey by offering a drill machine.
And special thanks to Julie for offering the one that actually worked ;)

As a result of this I can finally have a house warming :)

LHC Inauguration and LHCfest

CERN, Geneva, LHC, Music

Its been a nice party with some nice orchestra and some cool movies to start out with. After a speech by Robert Aymar and some strange slideshow with orchestra music (well only live for the Inauguration, we got the recording of it) the quite nice buffet was opened … as usual a mess … no wonder with 3000 physicists ;)

Anyway all the classic CERN bands were playing … Les Horribles Cernettes, the CERN Jazz Club Reunion and the Canettes Blues Band. We also had a special appearance of the LHC-Rap performers featuring the head of the LHC as one of the posers ;)

Fleamarket, Gimbap, Champagne Party and the Jura Mountains

Geneva, Hiking

After starting into the weekend with some very nice and tough badminton matches, some Orangina drinking and almost last tram missing, I continued on Saturday with the Plains Palais fleamarket, some troubles to go through to get a drill that has a hammer/action, Korean Gimbap selfmade with my flatmates and a Champagne Party at Troels’ place … almost won the music quiz with my team and went home kind a late.
Still today I woke up fairly early and was convinced to go for a hike in the Jura mountains … unfortunately the bowling that was supposed to give this weekend the proper close, wasn’t at all as good as the mountains … the lanes were quite shitty and they had this cosmic bowling thingy going on … man!