Category: events
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Fête des Lumières 2012: Colline de Fourvière, Lyon
This is the last of a series of posts on the Fête des Lumières at Lyon. As we mentioned before, there were many light shows and installations all over the city and we only managed to catch just a handful of them over the weekend. The show on this famous hill side must be one of the…
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Fête des Lumières 2012: Théâtre des Célestins, Lyon
During the four days of Festival of Lights in Lyon, there were 62 listed shows or exhibits scattered around the city. We spent the weekend of December 8-9 in Lyon (see earlier post here). Many of the buildings were lit up, some had projected static images, and a few played moving video clips. Théâtre des Célestins…
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2012: A year of “local” trips
In addition to making trips “abroad” in 2012, I(Chris) did a bit of travel within Switzerland as well. In March, I visited Winterthur (near Zurich) and attended the Electron festival in Geneva. Click the links to see the corresponding blog post. Winterthur’s photo museum (not yet posted on the blog) Geneva’s MAMCO (Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporaine) during the…
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2012: A year of “foreign” travels
As the end of 2012 is drawing close, we look back to some of the places we visited this year. Let’s start with those that were outside of Switzerland. We will follow up with a second post of the trips we made in 2012 within Switzerland. Click to jump to the posts – there are…
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Our Christmas dinner 2012
This year we are having Christmas dinner at home by ourselves and outsourced most of the preparations. Simple! Starters: smoked salmon, foie gras & lentils, salade noël (really just mixed greens with star-shaped cut carrots). Lobster ravioli in squid ink pasta, champagne cream sauce Roasted veal tenderloin (rosemary, shallot), gratin dauphinois, carrots in maple-syrup, saute…
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Fête des Lumières 2012: Place des Terreaux, Lyon
Over the weekend of Dec 8-9, we went to Lyon for the annual Fête des Lumières. The Festival of Lights is a uniquely Lyonnaise tradition which requires that every house place candles along the outsides of all the windows. Dating from 1643, it was meant to be a tribute to Mary if Lyon was spared of the plague. The light…