Berlin

11 November 2006Berlin, CERNSascha

The way back from the glaciers of the French alps we (Heike and me) started with an enjoyable night on the floor of Esbens CERN hostel room (thanx again) … as it turned out this was not the right way to recover after a day of snowboarding …

The next step on the journey was Freiburg where we were visiting some friends of mine I met at a summer university this year …
After dropping of Heike at the train-station (she had to go back to Berlin) I enjoyed another day in Freiburg and continued my journey …

The last stop before Berlin was the beautiful city of Wuppertal…
Climbing some hills, eating cookies, visiting the university built in the adorable style of the 70s and of course taking the “Schwebebahn Wuppertal” … this thing is over 100 years old! And for all you train-geeks here’s a little video

Hit the glacier

8 November 2006Geneva, SnowboardingSascha

After the ATLAS Trigger & Physics week we all went to the glacier of Tignes for some “summer” skiing /snowboarding… and it was smokin’ good, as the video proofs ;-)

THE MACHINE

1 November 2006CERNSascha

Today I had another opportunity to visit THE MACHINE…
Some people keep calling it ATLAS, I just call it THE MACHINE!
You can see

Still it is overwhelming and beautiful at the same time…
and a lot has changed since last time.
You can follow the build-up by watching the webcams.

Back in Switzerland

30 October 2006SwitzerlandSascha

Witnessing hundreds of bird doing crazy manoeuvres at the promenade of Lake Geneva, the first stop of my little Switzerland visit …

On the road again

26 October 2006Denmark, Germany, TravellingSascha

or back on track, or … whatever!
Sascha is moving again… due to the absurd ferry prices I decided to take one today instead of tomorrow … the genius offer for one car including 9 (in letters: nine) people, which I have to take, increases from 76EUR to 100EUR on weekends (including Fridays).
Damn… I just bought a return flight for December that was cheaper than one tour on the ferry!