France

Photo Essay: The Closest I got to Mont-Blanc (France)

January 24, 2013 9 comments
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Taking the cable cars up to Aiguille du Midi is an interesting experience. I paid 35 EUR to squeeze into a cabin with 68 strangers. I fought my way in quickly, to stand close to one of the windows. On my left, a fully equipped british couple, ready to jump off piste and climb glaciers. [...]

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Picture This: Taking the Highest Vertical Ascent Cable Car in the World (France)

January 20, 2013 3 comments
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This time I rang in the New Year in a ski resort – surrounded by extreme snow and ice sports lovers. Just the way I like it (you know, it makes me feel a bit more sporty myself). Every day, I woke up early (much earlier than I would like to admit) to drive to [...]

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Photo Essay: Gorge du Verdon, Provence

May 20, 2011 30 comments
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After finishing my one month summer french course in Nice, I went on a road trip through the South of France. This was already 5 years ago. Time flies, and my french isn’t getting any better! We spent some days along the coast side before breaking into the french countryside. It was going to be [...]

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Photo Essay: One View, Three Countries

April 13, 2011 9 comments
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Although I’m a beach person, I confess there’s something that fascinates me about mountains. They’re dramatic, uneven and somewhat mysterious. The view on the Alps and Lac Leman is the main reason for choosing the apartment I’m currently living in – I can spend hours hypnotized staring at the high peaks covered with snow during [...]

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In Search of The Perfect Crêpe

April 12, 2011 14 comments
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Hello! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or join me on Facebook to be regularly updated.Thanks for visiting! One and a half years of life in the french speaking side of Switzerland have taught me a lot of things – most of them on food, and concretely on [...]

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Friday’s Five – 5 Swiss French Words (Related to Food) You Should Know

April 8, 2011 6 comments

Hello! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or join me on Facebook to be regularly updated. Thanks for visiting! Some years ago, when I was working in Zürich, I was overwhelmed with swiss german. Although I considered by german relatively fluent, I didn’t understand a word of swiss german. After 3 months, [...]

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Paris Photo Essay (by a Frustrated Architect)

January 18, 2011 12 comments

Hello! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Did I ever tell you that, when I was a kind, I wanted to be an architect? This career fixation started at the earliest of my memories and lasted until I turned 20. Yes, 20. I studied to become [...]

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I Eat Paris.

January 17, 2011 16 comments

Hello! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! It was saturday morning and I had made my way to the one place that had never dissapointed me in this city – Marais. I remembered it colorful and full of life. I got out of the cab at Rue [...]

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The Day I Planned the Unplanned.

January 14, 2011 8 comments

Hello! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Source Last night we arrived in Paris. Paris and me, we have this kind of love-hate relationship. I’ve had great times with my friends, spending the nights in a spanish bar in Marais (which we later on discovered turned [...]

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All I want for Christmas is Cheese

December 22, 2010 8 comments

Hello! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Borough Market, London Maybe it’s the cold weather, the snow, that makes me want to wrap into a warm blanket and fish pieces of bread out of a fondue. Or maybe the Christmas market that I cross every evening [...]

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