Jenny, Christophe, and Martin, sitting down to a meal of raclette, in Martin’s Geneva flat. Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS film Raclette is delicious — think of delicious cheese, melted and poured over various processed meats, such as salami, prosciutto, etc., and potatoes. Doesn’t really get much more basic, comforting, and delicious than that. [...]
We went on a tour of the wine catacombs in Beaune, France, and visited only a single cellar: Patriarche et fils (Patriarche and sons). They are the largest cellar in the city, with over 5 kilometers of hallways upon hallways, with millions of wine bottles silently aging to perfection. For our 20€, we got to [...]
We’re here in the Jungfrau valley in Interlaken, Switzerland, and it’s beautiful. The Skeleton Key movie From Nice, we drove through Italy, spent a night in Torino, then crossed the border into Switzerland, with the goal of making it all the way to Interlaken. We had a brief detour in Gstaad and Saanen, two tiny [...]
‘Allo from the French Riviera! In a previous episode, our heroes were headed south, to the Cote d’Azur region of France, in an attempt to find some beaches (preferably topless (although I shan’t mention exactly whose preference it was)) for some quality relaxation time. The accommodations story has been interesting. We went from the world’s [...]
Bonjour, Alex’s friendly BCC list o’ travelogue-spam-victims! It hasn’t been that long since the last time we talked, I know, but after 2006, the year of austerity, 2007 seems to be the year of fun. This mail is being sent with Swiss precision; I can actually see little electron brigades standing at attention and at [...]
Short post just to let people know we’re alive. We arrived in Strasbourg a few days ago, after having flown to Frankfurt and hired a rental car. We didn’t get the VW Lupo we were hoping for, but the Fiat Panda instead. Cute name, but it’s rather underpowered for autobahn driving. Strasbourg is great, and [...]
Quick, what’s the worst merger idea ever? No, not HPW + CPQ — that merger is successful by most metrics, so shut yer piehole. The correct answer would be Microsoft proposing to buy Yahoo for $50 BILLION. Yahoo is a 2nd place company. Whatever cool stuff they might have done in the past all went [...]