Category — Miscellaneous

in pictures:

The medieval festival in Sighisoara 2009 will remain in history as the “sus mainile” event. Participants will know what I’m talking about. The narrow streets of cobbled stone (and other improvised pavement types) were host to a diverse group of friends which resulted in an extraordinarily fun melting pot of personalities, moods and cultures, united [...]

In the attempt to get things here up-to-date, here’s a quick look at the winter season 2008/9. Nothing much happened, except work and skiing week-ends. I re-visited some places I’d been before, and tried out some new ones. In short chronological order: I ended 2008 with a trip to Zermatt, to see the Matterhorn, a [...]

When saying “Würzburg”, I had absolutely no image forming in my head. Nothin. Emptyness. Grey spot. Not even blank, grey – no idea why. Well, it was a very pleasant surprise. The first sight after emerging from the underground parking lot was this church in this square from where I randomly walked along this road [...]

Euro2008 is over for the Romanian soccer team. After a brilliantly executed tactical (albeit sinfully boring) goalless draw against world championship runner-up France and a sensational 1-1 against world champion Italy, after one of the most thrilling games in the competition, they lamentably failed to beat a relaxed Dutch squad to qualify to the quarterfinals. [...]

Euro2008 (soccer, for the ones who don’t know on what world they live in ) is in full swing this month. Romania has survived a hard-fought game against World Champion runners-up France, 0-0. For a neutral person, quite a boring game, but from an “involved” perspective it was amazing, especially for the ones in the [...]

…and it was all yellow. (click on “play” below to play the music and then click on “play” underneath to play the pictures.)

Took BM out for a ride yesterday – just wanted to eat somewhere out on a terrace in the sun and read. I arrived at the pizzeria in my village just to find out it is closing on Sundays at 2pm, so I went up a hill to eat and look at the lake. Peaceful.The [...]

Sechselaeuten is a traditional guild holiday in Zurich. Monday was free, and I took the opportunity to go check out the guild parade. Quite impressive, plenty of people attending, colorful costumes, good mood. More details about the holiday here. My photographic insights below. And a small movie depicting a full guild parade: children, fanfare, guild [...]