Month: July 2010
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Moving to Lausanne
We just moved – from Neuchâtel to Lausanne – actually been here for 2 weeks already but did not have access to the internet until Swisscom gots its act together last week. That partially explains why there were no blog post for a while. In this past 2 weeks, beside moving our stuff to the…
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Sunday Brunch on the banks of Le Doubs
When we got to Les Brenets and then the banks of Le Doubs, it was already lunch time. After we bought tickets for the river cruise, we decided to try the restaurant at this dull-looking hotel next to the pier – Les Rives du Doubs. It was a surprisingly pleasant restaurant which had a modern glass-covered…
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Cruising on the border: Le Doubs
Le Doubs is a small river that separates France from this corner of Switzerland. It is about 45 minutes from where we live. We crossed over the Jura mountains, went through La Chaux de Fonds and Le Locle, and pass through this gap in the mountain (Le Col des Roches) to reach Les Brenets. There…
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Weekend in Murten / Morat
Murten (or Morat in French) is a small town on the shore of Murtensee (Lac Morat) – one of the three lakes in the area. The other two are Lac de Neuchâtel (the largest) and Lac Biel-Bienne. All three lakes are connected by canals and cruise boats take tourist to all of them. Murten is…
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The Millennium Trilogy: a tribute and more gossips
Well, I was not planning to devote another blog post to these three books but there seems to be a lot of interest in them. This trilogy is kind of the Harry Porter for grown ups and apparently Lisbeth Salander has become a media/culture figure first in Europe and now in the US. I…
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The Millennium Trilogy’s Author: Stieg Larsson
These are the book covers for UK’s release of the Millennium Trilogy. The book covers in yesterday’s post are used in the US editions. I prefer the US covers. The author of the Millennium Trilogy died in 2004 several months after he submitted the trilogy to his publisher and before the first book was published.…