Category: events

  • Fête Désalpe at Saint-Cergue

    We had a thorough appreciation of the saying  “Until the cows come home” at the annual Fête Désalpe.  Désalpe is a unique tradition of Switzerland (and parts of France) when the herds of cows that spent summer on the alpine pasture return to the valley for winter.  The word Désalpe is a contraction of “Déscente…

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  • La Nuit des Musées at L’Usine-Tridel

    La Nuit des Musées at L’Usine-Tridel

    Once a year, Lausanne hosts the night of the museums (La Nuit des Musées) – an event that involves 24 museums in the area.  This year’s event took place this past weekend Sep 24. The admission was CHF10 and the ticket allowed access to all the participating museums, discount at restaurants, and free transportation, all…

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  • Our 200th post

    Hudson and GW bridge from our old home in Edgewater This is our 200th post – a small landmark ! Celebrating with a random collection of pictures and … Near Geneve We also want to announce that our Links page is finally up.  It is in the top right hand corner of the page.  Scroll…

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  • Lunar New Year Flower Market: part 1 年宵花市

    We visited the Chinese New Year evening flower market at Victoria Park 维园年宵花市 in Hong Kong.  This type of market or fair is an annual tradition in Southern China – 行年宵.  I remember lugging a peach blossom tree home with my Dad many years ago at such a market.  The practice is similar to the…

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  • Berlin: private cabaret in a museum

    On the last evening of the meeting, the company organized a gala dinner at the Museum of Communications (Museum für Kommunikation Berlin at Leipziger Straße 16).  The museum is beautiful but the content is really suitable for family with children. We had the whole museum to ourselves.  We roamed leisurely champagne in hand, explored and…

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  • I am one year old !

    My then new iMac Dear readers, thank you for visiting.  This blog has been running for just a little bit over a year.  Happy Birthday to me. This is the 170th post!  How did I manage? The first post was put up on November 4, 2009 – “Hello World” was just a test.  So was…

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