Monthly Archives: December 2004

a happy and blessed 2005 to all of you “out there”!

december in switzerland, especially the zurich region is usually a bleary, dampening affair: high fog for weeks on end, rain (but very little snow), no real winter weather (but always: “snow tomorrow” promised by the swiss weather service), and ever … Continue reading →

the other day i got the invoice for my weekend subscription of the tagesanzeiger: which aside from the fact that they would like me to resubscribe for another 6 months also informs me that they will only start refunding holiday … Continue reading →

i’ve been thinking about why we celebrate christmas and what it means to me occasionally over the past couple of years (triggered each year by the onslaught of christmas decorations and stuff almost as soon as fall has tested the … Continue reading →

photography is one of my long-time passions. having started with minolta SLRs i switched to a nikon coolpix 990 a couple of years ago and have recently upgraded to a sony dsc f828 — while the nikon was already quite … Continue reading →

getting up early today as i want to catch the 7:15 from erlangen to catch the 7:41 for stuttgart (and onwards to zurich)…it’s pretty cold…make it in time to the station, buy the latest issue of the spiegel, a tetra-pack … Continue reading →