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  • What I learned after three weeks with a cat

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat I learned after three weeks with a cat is that they’re easy to take care of. Cleaning up the litter tray takes seconds and providing them with food two to three times a day is simple. It’s also simple to keep them entertained. A ball of string on a string and…

  • The Foggiest Idea

    The Foggiest Idea

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Foggiest idea, or a pun, after a walk this morning through Geneva on a foggy day. “The Jet D’eau will be off”, I thought. It was pumping out water at its usual rate but you’d find it hard to see. The grey/white fog, along with the white water, converged and…

  • Getting Cold On A Scooter

    Getting Cold On A Scooter

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI don’t often spend two hours on a scooter driving from Geneva to Nyon and back, especially not when it’s about 1°c. In such conditions, I’d drive to the closest train station and be done with it. I waited until ten or eleven in the morning to drive. Any earlier and it…

  • Blobs in Geneva

    Blobs in Geneva

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I walked around Geneva and in at least three locations I spotted these blobs guarding various places. These two are guarding the entrance to the old town. I like the contrast between the modern blobs above the gate to the old town of Geneva and the statue of Pictet De…

  • The Noise of Towns

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen you live in town you have a lot of noise. You have the noise of cars, of construction, of buses, trucks and road sweeps. You also have the occasional people shouting, beeping and more. Logically this should make sleeping in town harder. It’s so constant that it’s like the sound…

  • The Walk from Paquis to Decathlon/Mediamarkt

    The Walk from Paquis to Decathlon/Mediamarkt

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe walk from Paquis to Decathlon can be almost straight if you take the most direct route. You walk from anywhere in Paquis to the train station and from there you head up towards Balexert and from there you head along the cycle and walking paths that veer slightly to the…

  • City Cat Sitting.

    City Cat Sitting.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the first time in my life I am cat sitting. I’m used to village cats and this is a city cat so I don’t know how much time I need to spend with the cat, how much I need to play and more. When I look after toddlers I know…

  • A Ten Kilometre Sunday Ingress Walk

    A Ten Kilometre Sunday Ingress Walk

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI was going to take the scooter but it was stuck by three SUVs so I had no option but to lazily give up and go on a 10 kilometre Sunday Ingress walk. I couldn’t be bothered running up to the second floor, getting the car keys, moving the car, getting the…

  • An Ingress Photo Walk Before The Rain

    An Ingress Photo Walk Before The Rain

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went for an Ingress Photo Walk before the rain and I eventually did have to go home because the phone was starting to get wet and there was no urgency to continue playing the game and walking. I did spot a few things that were slightly out of the ordinary.…

  • Three Lanes Are Better Than Two

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThree lanes are always better than two but environmentalists are against expanding from two lanes to three lanes because they say that having three lanes will promote the use of the car. I believe that this is a flawed argument. The A1 motorway between Geneva and Lausanne is often congested because when…