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  • Playing with an E-bike in St Moritz

    Playing with an E-bike in St Moritz

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a few days I played with an e-bike around St Moritz and in the process learned that riding an e-bike is intuitive. It’s on hills and when you’re riding into the wind that you feel the advantage of e-bikes. The trick, with e-bikes is to learn to ride gently. With a…

  • The Tyranny of Music Festivals

    The Tyranny of Music Festivals

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the last week I have been an internally displaced person. When I go to some events they have silent discos and make sure that after 22:00 their noise pollution ends. With Caribana and Paléo the opposite is true. The tyrants have music from 1700-0200 or even earlier the next morning,…

  • A Medium Drive

    A Medium Drive

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I am more than five minutes from home. I am in St Moritz for a change. I will write more when I have something to write about. For now I am far from the noise of a certain music festival.

  • A Two and a Half Hour Walk

    A Two and a Half Hour Walk

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday afternoon I was convinced that I would have a short easy walk, just to get out of the house. In reality I walked from Nyon to Bonmont and back along roads, but also farm paths. I walked this route because I decided that going for a walk would keep me cooler…

  • A Weekend of Hiking and Cycling

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThis weekend has been physically demanding. On Saturday I rode with people who do nothing but ride, so they’re far fitter, on a bike than I am, so by the end of the ride I was struggling to keep up. ## The Options I fully expected the weekend to be difficult, Originally…

  • Impressions of the Škoda WLC

    Impressions of the Škoda WLC

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesMost of us will associate Škoda with the Tour De France and vice versa. When my brother got a Škoda that’s what I associated it with. Škoda France has a team of people that organise group cycling events to promote the Škoda brand. ## Critical Mass and Others I have cycled with…

  • Shopping With an E-Scooter

    Shopping With an E-Scooter

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesOver the years I have enjoyed driving to the shops with a petrol driven scooter for daily shops. I liked that it was small, light and convenient. I only got rid of it, after sixteen years of use because of the cost for a service. Usually it was about 500 but I…

  • On Summer Heat in a Very Noisy Village

    On Summer Heat in a Very Noisy Village

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesFor as long as I remember I have enjoyed summer heat. For a long time I lived in a house that was like a cave in summer. It would be 30°c outdoors but 21 to 25°c indoors. It felt like stepping into a cave when I got home. For a summer or…

  • Twice the Driving Range

    Twice the Driving Range

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I refuelled the car after 380 kilometres for about 30 CHF. A few years ago, when I refuelled another car it cost me 70 CHF to refuel a car, to travel 400 kilometres. This means that the car I drive now costs half as much, in petrol, despite the price…

  • Why Would They Build This in the Middle of Nowhere

    Why Would They Build This in the Middle of Nowhere

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently someone said “I wonder why they would build the Abbey d’Oujon in the middle of nowhere and someone asked the same about Romainmôtier and the idea is an interesting one. It’s interesting because until motorways and before an extra four to six billion peoples wewre born and survived infancy the world,…