Month: February 2010
La Crêperie de Grancy
On one of my house hunting weekend in Lausanne, I wandered into La Crêperie de Grancy for lunch. It is located on the second floor of a concrete building on Blvd de Grancy 4. Quite a cozy, comfortable neighborhood eatery – a bit like a diner, except that as the name indicates, they only do crepes. Creperies are quite…
Lausanne at Night
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rlc7wnSpko&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hd=1] This 360° video is taken from Bel-Air, which is kind of like the Union Square of Lausanne. Lausanne is very hilly. Its center sits on top of several hilltops linked my bridges. The hilltops and the valleys in between are connected by public elevators and stairs. Several levels of parking garages and shops are…
Tunisian Takeout
Everything is closed here after 6pm except restaurants. Dimly lit restaurants do not offer takeout food. They sell ambience and not convenience. Bright lights signify a takeout joint. In the US, pizza and chinese takeout are very popular. In the UK, fish’n’chips and indian curries are dominant. In Switzerland, or at least the parts that…
Our Old Cars: #1
Since I was talking about car yesterday, I thought about my old cars. In theory, we could have taken at least one of the cars with us since we are nowhere near filling up the 40-foot container that the company provides for shipment of our things. In practice, it seems quite complicated to get the…