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Tag: summer

  • Experimenting With Minergie

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Minergie is theoretically a fantastic, environmentally friendly way of making a building more energy-efficient, by reducing the need for air conditioning and heating. For three years now I have been playing with and experimenting with minergie. During the first and second heatwaves, I liked to open windows and get fresh air.…

  • A Vaccination and A New Car

    Reading Time: 2 minutes I haven’t written about the Pandemic in many weeks, because not much has changed. We’re in it for the long haul. Until the vaccine I believed and hoped that governments would attempt to get to zero new community transmissions as had been the goal in New Zealand. With the arrival of…

  • Nice Clouds on a Windy Day

    Nice Clouds on a Windy Day

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes you drive home on the scooter and you look up at the sky and you think “When I get out of this village I’m going to stop by the side of the road and I’m going to take a picture of the clouds because they’re photogenic. The reason for them…

  • 2020 – The Golden Opportunity to Be A Recluse

    Reading Time: 4 minutes 2020 – The Golden Opportunity to be a Recluse. If you’ve ever wanted a reason not to be social then open society’s behaviour, in regards to the COVID-19 virus, has provided us with a fantastic opportunity to enjoy being reclusive. During a normal Spring and Summer I would be driving to…

  • De-Confinement, In Name Only.

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Until recently every time Switzerland moved from one phase to another the number of new cases per day increased slightly but with the latest phase the number of cases has increased by four or five times the number of new cases. From March until mid June we could go to the…

  • IFSC Climbing World Cup Villars 2016

    IFSC Climbing World Cup Villars 2016

    Reading Time: 2 minutes I will be present at the IFSC Climbing World Cup Villars tomorrow. For me climbing has always been an active rather than a passive sport. It has been a sport where the landscape is nice and the crowds are small. Tomorrow will be the first time that I go and watch…

  • Summer Nyon

    Summer Nyon

    Reading Time: 2 minutes   This is an image of Nyon on a day when the thermometer indicated at least 31°c on a sunny Sunday afternoon. In this image you can see the CGN boat leaving Nyon and heading towards Geneva. You can see the Jet D’eau in the background. You can see a sailing…

  • The Via Ferrata season is back, time to enjoy those mountain landscapes again.

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Finally winter is over, the snow is melting away, flowers are coming up and the via ferrata season is starting once again. I will be in the mountains every second weekend from now on to explore via ferratas and hike. The next via ferrata I will explore is the Via…

  • Where you should be seesmicing from

    Reading Time: < 1 minute A place to seesmic from

  • The Summer of Barbecues

    Reading Time: < 1 minute It would seem that this will be the summer of barbecues because of the amount of meat leftover from last night. With a friend, we went over to France and bought four kilos of meat, a nice little quantity. Too much for two friends to eat in one sitting but…