Tag: switzerland
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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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The Beginning of Our Third Year in Lausanne
Time flies. Lausanne has been our home for the last two years. In the summer of 2010, we left our temporary corporate housing in Peseux and moved into this apartment. Here are some links to our past posts documenting the journey from the US: Moving out of Edgewater in 2010 Temporary housing in Peseux Moving…
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La Cour Chagall at Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny
After visiting the St. Benrard dog’s home and museum at Martigny, we went to the Fondation Pierre Gianadda – the main reason to go to Martigny. More will be written about the small but active museum in this corner of Switzerland. The Fondation has a beautiful sculpture garden and one of the more remarkable pieces is…
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Home of the St. Bernard and Museum, Martigny
Martigny, in the canton of Valais, is about an hour’s drive from where we live. It is a junction of roads linking Switzerland with France and Italy – roads over the Great St. Bernard Pass to Aosta (Italy), and the other over the col de la Forclaz to Chamonix (France). Great St. Bernard Pass is…
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A Country Cat
One Autumn day last year, we and J and J went for a short hike on the Sentier du patrimoine de Romainmôtier. On our way back to our car, near Croy, we walked along a beautiful idyllic garden path. It runs behind a row of houses along a stream, separating the back of each house…
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Electron Festival 2012, Geneva
Electron is a four-day festival that ran from April 5 to April 8, spanning the Easter weekend of 2012. Below is this year’s poster – the city in the background is Geneva. It is an annual electronic cultures festival that included workshops, contemporary art exhibits, concerts, conferences and parties. These events took place at various…