I had no idea I would suddenly be very busy, going from one thing to the next without much time for reflection; and I’m generally know to be the reflexive, rather than active type. Ignoring this tendency, last Friday I went to Germany, came back to Switzerland on Sunday, left for Paris on Tuesday, and [...]
Archive for the ‘Trips’ Category
Taking things in stride
Posted in Leaving, Studies, Trips, tagged application, Busy, Studies, travel on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
German Blues
Posted in Studies, Trips, tagged conference, Drew Hayden Taylor, Lueneburg, Native American on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week-end I was in Lüneburg, a charming town between Hamburg and Hannover where a symposium in Native American / First Nations studies took place. The funny thing about Germans is that for unclear reasons they love American Indians. They have popular novels with a character named Winitou and powwows across the country. Well, if [...]
Chocolat Suchard
Posted in Food, Home, Trips, tagged duck mold, Suchard, Swiss chocolate on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having been in Switzerland for a month, it was time for me to find some interest again in local stories. You may know that Suchard used to be made in Neuchâtel, and for a town this size it’s an important historical element. Which is why the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire and the university organized an [...]
Parental control
Posted in Friends & family, Leaving, Trips on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My parents are visiting this week. We went to Bath for a couple of days and will drive back home to Switzerland tomorrow. It’s been a busy and enjoyable week, and I appreciated the transition between the end of term and the spring break. Parents can be tricky business, though. Take your eyes off them [...]
Leaving the mountains behind
Posted in Home, Leaving, Trips, tagged Chasseral, Jura, mountains, snow, snowshoes on January 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
On Wednesday I went snowshoeing for the first time, with my aunt, on the Chasseral in the Jura mountains. As it hasn’t snowed much since the 31st of December, there were many tracks there already, but it was more interesting when we made our own in the woods and really tested the snowshoes. I have [...]
The meat chronicles – 1
Posted in Food, Home, Trips on January 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Seeing as I posted my New Year’s resolution on this blog, I’m going to write monthly articles on the subject to share my ideas with you. I went to the zoo in Basel the other day and saw the young hippopotamus with his mother. Farasi’s fate provoked a debate here when the zoo admitted that [...]
Pipe dream
Posted in Studies, Trips, tagged British Museum, London, Native American on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went to London on a study trip with my class in Native American studies last Wednesday. Given that the British Museum is so close to Covent Garden, and that Saint James Park is on the way back to Charing Cross, I thought I would be able to do some serious shopping after the visit [...]
Sisterhood
Posted in Campus, Canterbury, Food, Shopping, Studies, Trips, tagged sister, student, visit on October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My sister came to stay with me for a week (two people in nine square meters, how nice) and we had a great time. Cream tea and a visit to the cathedral, pub food and a walk to the seaside, roast dinner with all my housemates, bars and shopping, even some study time in the [...]
Fallen leaves
Posted in Campus, Trips, tagged Fordwich, juggling, nunchaku, Poi on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The weather changed for the worse today, but before that we were enjoying an Indian summer with dewy mornings and sunny afternoons. I really didn’t feel like staying behind my desk, so I neglected the Creative Writing group (and my blog) and joined the Circus Society instead. There’s a beautiful grassy ground surrounded by trees [...]
English weather
Posted in Campus, Trips, tagged beach, Campus, rain, sun on October 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This week-end I made my first incursion into the countryside, which is absolutely lovely, with fields surrounded by hedges, lots of orchards, and woods full of oaks and pine trees. I also hadn’t had fish & chips in a while, and the closer the sea is, the better it tastes. Sunday was a really beautiful, [...]
