Month: May 2020
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Self-Sacrifice and Pandemics
Reading Time: 3 minutes Self-Sacrifice and Pandemics are intimate friends. In order for a pandemic to end we must learn to do without things that we need. We go without meeting friends for months, we go without hugs or handshakes for months. We go without restaurants, bars, cafés or cinemas for months. We go without…
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Day 75 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – Switzerland Expects to Return to Normality within weeks
Reading Time: 2 minutes Switzerland “expects to return to normality” within the next few days and weeks. As of tomorrow groups of up to thirty people will be able to meet. That’s good for all of the activities that I like to do. It means that the Via Ferrata, hiking, climbing, and other seasons can…
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Day 71 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – An Ingress Mission despite Lockdown.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Two nights ago we did an Ingress Mission Despite Lockdown. This was a Franco-Swiss Mission to create a field over Geneva. Normally with Ingress missions people would drive tens, or even hundreds of kilometres to capture and link portals but this time was different. We all stayed in our little corners…
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A Fourteen Kilometre walk and I Crossed Paths With Just Two Other People.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Today I went for a fourteen Kilometre walk and I crossed paths with just two other people. It was a couple of runners and we crossed paths at just the right place as I could slip into a clearing, wait for them to pass and then continue on my way.…
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Day 64 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – “When I’m 64”
Reading Time: 3 minutes Earlier today or yesterday at some point I was thinking of the song When I’m 64, and that I should share it. I’m not 64. Quarantine hasn’t aged me so drastically. I felt the need to make that joke. Recycling For the first time in two months I went to the…