Tag: switzerland
Pritzker 2010 winner – The Rolex Learning Center at EPFL: Part 1
We should have posted these videos and pictures two and a half years ago ! But this adventure is worth the wait. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIgLmDKuAc0?rel=0&w=510&h=383] One summer night in 2010, while IT was visiting, we had dinner in Morges. And on our way back to Lausanne, we avoided the highway and used local roads which pass…
La Table d’Edgard, Lausanne Palace Hotel & Spa
We had lunch at this local hotel restaurant in autumn last year. It is one of several restaurants in the Lausanne area that has been awarded at least one Michelin star. The chef M. Edgard Bovier was very friendly and came out of the kitchen to chat with the patrons, including us, in French and English.…
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…
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…