Category Archives: Cities

The Godfather of Electronic Jazz

Geneva, Music

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

France, Geneva, Hiking

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 …

Hiking up Le Mole

Geneva, Hiking

On Sunday I had a very nice hike 6h30 up to Le Mole. You can see some part of the extremely nice view from the peak of the mountain.
Besides all the fun, I had to learn (even though one could have guess before) that a single yoghurt for breakfast is not enough for doing a hike like this … hmm! … and I can still feal the way down in my knees … but it was certainly worth it :|
More pictures are in my gallery …

A bit of everything please …

Geneva, Hiking

… that was the motto for the long weekend!
Heike was around and we started with some nice originally French dinner at a friends place (thanks to the hosts). On May 1st we walked through Geneva and enjoyed some international food at some offshoot of the labour demonstration party thingy … whatever. The evening was crowned with a visit to my favourite restaurant in the area … hmm … I love this place! Saturday was reserved for some hiking in the French alps near Megeve (this time without getting lost in snowslides). Finally Sunday was for relaxing and checking out the little market in Thoiry … which turned out to be quite nice!

Saturday Picknick & Sunday BBQ

CERN, Geneva, Hiking

Since everybody seemed to be gone or busy I finally didn’t go skiing this weekend. Instead I spent some time working at CERN and had two nice chill-out meals.
Saturday we went up Saleve to have a picknick on one of the peaks with a nice view of the Rhone valley and the alps. Unfortunately someone (who’s name shall not be mentioned, not me) forgot the lighter so we couldn’t get the BBQ going …
To make up for this we met again today to have the BBQ in my garden (picture shows view from my window) … hmm!