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.
Other traditional [...]
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 wander [...]
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 worst hostel [...]
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 the ready [...]
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 the [...]
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 out the [...]