Tag: switzerland
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From Grächen to Zermatt via the longest suspension bridge: part two
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom Grächen to Zermatt via the longest suspension bridge: part two When you wake up in the Europahütte and look down you can see the span of the longest suspension bridge in the morning shade of the mountains. It’s at this moment that people like me think “shame, not ideal for pictures”.…
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The Refugee Cultural Festival Kickoff Party
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night many of the volunteers participating in the Refugee Cultural Festival could come and meet who they will be working with for the duration of the event. Falafel, samosa, hummus, wine and beer were among the offerings available to those people. Along with this was a drive for them to tell…
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IFSC Climbing World Cup Villars 2016
Reading Time: 2 minutesI 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 as…
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Via Ferrata with Climbing Shoes
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I tried a Via Ferrata with Climbing shoes. With a group we went to the Moléson which you see in the picture below. This mountain stands in the middle and has fantastic views on to Neuchatel, the Lac Leman, Bulle and more. The drawback is that this mountain is often in…
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Images from the Via Ferrata de Lavanchy
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDespite the warning that rain would fall after 1700 today we went up to explore the Via Ferrata De Lavanchy. it is a via ferrata that requires a 45 minute walk up hill. You walk up towards a cirque and then turn left and continue upwards through some trees. When you…
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Autostitch for the Iphone
Reading Time: < 1 minutePort of Nyon in Winter The picture above was done with an iphone and the autostitch application. To produce this type of photograph the process is simple. You take a series of pictures with the Iphone camera before going to the autostitch application. You select the photographs that you want stitched together…
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Ten Days without Twitter
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is a video of me at the only Twestival event I have ever been to and I lay into the event for the fashionistas that attended the event. I was so disappointed with the event as a whole that I have lost my passion for going to social media events, especially…
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Geneva Tweetup during the LIFT09 Conference – Who’s Interested?
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of my biggest frustrations at the moment as a user of twitter is that I can’t meet with the people I chat with on a regular basis. As a result of this I am trying to find as many Geneva based twitter users as possible to organise a tweetup. There are…