Tag: switzerland

  • The Lost Art of Silent Material Cutting

    The Lost Art of Silent Material Cutting

    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor years now the noise in this village has been frustrating me. It is the noise of industrial cutting. The noise of an angle grinder on metal, of a circular saw on bricks, stone and wood. It is the constant wail of a circular saw cutting into something, every few seconds, or…

  • Cycling In The Rain

    Cycling In The Rain

    Reading Time: 2 minutesBy some fluke I have now gone for two bike rides in the rain. The first time I rode in the rain my hands got cold and I had to warm myself up again. Yestrday I went for. a bike ride again, expecting the weather to stay good. It drizzled almost non-stop.…

  • The Tour De Romandie Bike Ride

    The Tour De Romandie Bike Ride

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I went for a bike ride and I was head towards Gland via Genolier but changed the route due to a dog walker when I wanted to turn East. I turned West instead and noticed some people and flags by Crassier. I thought “Was there an accident” as I also saw…

  • Northern Exposure and Blowing Bubbles

    Northern Exposure and Blowing Bubbles

    Reading Time: 2 minutesNorthern Exposure is a series about a doctor who finds himself sent to Alaska to be a doctor for a few years. He thinks that it is the middle of nowhere and he has to adapt from enjoying life as a New Yorker to life as a frontier town doctor.   Although…

  • Thirty Kilometres Per Day

    Thirty Kilometres Per Day

    Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Swiss travel an average of 30 kilometres per day in their cars, according to a new survey shared by the Radio Television Suisse. I walk 14 to twenty kilometres per day, and if I go for a bike ride I travel 30 kilometres. I use the car twice a week, for…

  • Connected Watches and Psychological Profiles

    Connected Watches and Psychological Profiles

    Reading Time: 2 minutesConnected watches know everything about us. In theory they listen to us 24 hours a day for years in a row. My Apple watch has been on my wrist for over four years, every single day. It has been for swims, runs, rock climbing, via ferrata, office work and more.  The watch…

  • Playing With Migros SubitoGo

    Playing With Migros SubitoGo

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I tried playing with Migros SubitoGo and the experience was good. You scan the QR code for the shop as you enter and then you scan the products that you want to buy. I kept them in my hands until I got to the checkout counters. Passabene With Passabene you shop,…

  • A Walk at the Snow Line

    A Walk at the Snow Line

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe most striking thing about a winter with little to no snow is that there is no noise. Normally ski lifts clank, people talk and there is a lot of noise When there has been very little snow the ski lifts are turned off and the mountains are quiet. This is…

  • The Afternoon Sky

    The Afternoon Sky

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  • Spring

    Spring

    Reading Time: < 1 minute25,000 steps in a day.