Category: travel

  • The Pandemic Groundhog Day – Sisyphean Life

    The Pandemic Groundhog Day – Sisyphean Life

    Reading Time: 2 minutes This week we have the pandemic Groundhog Day and this is the time when we will see if the Sisyphean life continues. Most of Europe is reopening, and although for those who have not read broadly about the pandemic rejoice, others do not. By deciding to reopen now, it is almost…

  • Keir Starmer’s Speech Today

    Reading Time: < 1 minute This speech reminds us that English democracy is not gone, that there are moral people still around, and that we need to get the current Tory government out of power and go back to having leadership worthy of respect. When you are at events you listen to speech after speech,…

  • Confined by Freedom

    Confined by Freedom

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Some of us are confined by freedom. By this I mean that as society is opened up, as people are told that they don’t need to wear masks, that they don’t need to self-isolate and that they don’t need to show covid passes, so the freedom of others is taken away.…

  • Frozen Fountain Water

    Frozen Fountain Water

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Although the name of this blog post is bizarre it is inspired by the site of a fountain with a big block of ice, serving as a mirror to the tree, and sun, in front of me. The weather is still nicer, more springlike than it has been. More people are…

  • Spring And Self Isolation

    Spring And Self Isolation

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Today I went for a walk and it felt warm enough for me to skip on wearing a layer. It was warm, around six degrees, and sunny. It felt like Spring, and it feels as though cycling could almost be considered. The cycling season is nice. I speak about cycling because…

  • One And A Half Years of Pandemic fatigue

    Reading Time: 3 minutes For the first one hundred days of the pandemic it felt long but we had a hope, and the impression that respective governments were working to eradicate the pandemic so that we could resume normal life. Eventually though people against lockdowns, and against other measures began to be heard and so…

  • Migrating from the iPhone 8 Plus to the iPhone SE (2020)

    Reading Time: 3 minutes I went from the iPhone SE to the iPhone 8 plus to the iPhone SE (2020) because the 2016 iPhone was an excellent low budget iphone that did everything you needed, in a small package. I switched to the iPhone 8 Plus purely to use the bigger phone screen with a…

  • A Day In The Clouds

    A Day In The Clouds

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Today was a different to recent days because we spent it within the clouds, rather than beneath, or above them. It is hard to be above the clouds when you are near lake level. SRF has two nice time lapses of clouds flowing over a mountain as if it was water,…

  • A Walk in The Swiss Sun

    A Walk in The Swiss Sun

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday I read that we will have sun for at least a few more weeks due to a high pressure system over this part of Europe and this afternoon I read that it is snowing in Greece. Normally, out of pandemic I would love sunny days because it would mean climbing,…

  • An Interminable Pandemic

    An Interminable Pandemic

    Reading Time: 2 minutes At the same time as the number of active strains of Covid-19 are increasing governments in England, Switzerland and other countries are pushing the narrative that this summer will be normal, that we may no longer need the Covid passes and other such news. We are at a point where there…