Month: February 2010
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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…
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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…
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A Temporary Means of Transportation
The company has generously providing me with this rental car from Hertz for 60 days. It is a Mercedes-Benz A180, a rather small car that I have never seen in the states. Here’s a link to this car on the Swiss MB’s multimedia web site: A-Klasse. In the US, I think they sell only class C…
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Temporary Home Sweet Home
Here are some pictures of the interiors of my temporary home – living/dining room, kitchen, a small bedroom and a finished attic with a bed, and a foyer. The house has one of those typical European staircase. Another tenant lives below me and the landlord (a couple with 2 dogs) occupy the ground floor with…
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Airborne Food Porn: LX23 from JFK to GVA
Continuing with the tradition of the food porn series, whenever I come across some good-looking food, I record it. This was my dinner on the night of Jan 28, 2010 at many thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Fennel-dusted sea bass, sauteed vegetables, mascapone polenta, red pepper coulis; small green salad; and vanilla panna cotta…
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First Post from Europe
Hello. Bonjour from Switzerland. 恭喜發財 Kung Hei Fat Choy ! We wish you all a Prosperous New Year of the Tiger and Happy Valentine’s Day. With the opening of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the start of O Carnaval in Rio, what a busy weekend ! We are back online. The biggest adventure has just…