August 2010

A Day in Annecy, France

August 31, 2010 4 comments

Last Weekend we drove to Annecy, a little town in France with only around 50.000 habitants (which probably doubles during summer time). Even though we knew we were in France, we could feel a certain swiss-italian air around us – the lake, the Alps, the numerous restaurants and cafes, the unending ice cream offer… and [...]

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Around the World III

August 30, 2010 0 comments

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A Lucky Story (II)

August 27, 2010 3 comments

And there I was, standing in the front of hundreds of people staring at me asking themselves the same question: Who the hell is that girl? I must say, I wasn’t the only one receiving a prize that night. We were three winners: one guy got a ticket to anywhere in Europe because it was [...]

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A Lucky Story (Part I)

August 25, 2010 1 comment

Guess a number. But not any number. The number of flights a travel agent books during a year. This question was key in my company’s Christmas / New Year’s dinner Quiz, but more specifically, how many flights the company’s travel agent booked between January 2009 and January 2010. I had just spent my first 3 [...]

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Top 5 City Ranking (according to me)

August 21, 2010 4 comments

The other day I decided to check out this years Mercer’s city ranking for quality of living worldwide. Not surprisingly, Switzerland has 3 cities in the Top 10 (Bern, Zurich and Geneva). I’m sure it’s high quality of life in many senses: low criminality, clean streets, efficient transport service (all this thanks to all the [...]

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NZ Road Trip #6: Southern Island Glaciers

August 5, 2010 0 comments

Franz Joseph Glacier from the Helicopter It has been ages since I last wrote on the journal of the trip, but only because I was carefully searching the best way to describe the next chapter, which was definitely one of my favorites: the Glacier hike! When we crossed over from Wellington to the Southern Island, [...]

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