Interlaken and surroundings

Two weeks ago it was finally time again to spend time with my brothers. One of my them was together with his girlfriend in Grenoble, France for a conference, and since Grenoble and Baden are close (compared to the US and Switzerland), we took the opportunity to meet each other. On Saturday, first my “Dutch” [...]

Weekend with my mum

A kind of strange but wonderful weekend is just over. My mum visited me by herself because my dad had work obligations. So from Thursday till Sunday my mum came to Switzerland. On Thursday afternoon I picked her up from the airport, and since she landed somewhat earlier than scheduled and got her luggage in no-time, [...]

(Grand)parents

It is already four weeks ago that my parents and grandparents visited me at the warmest weekend of the year. With temperatures of 30+ degrees C all weekend we had to adjust our plans to this. So no walking in cities but instead walking in forested areas and in the neighborhood of water.
Besides the [...]

Switzerland: 6 months

Six months ago on January 5th I moved to Switzerland. After the help of my father and one of my two brothers to install all the big furniture during the first few days, on January 9th I was on my own. Since then many, many things have happened.
The reason to move here was of course my [...]

Marseille

Basilique Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde in Marseille

A week ago I was in Marseille for a measurement campaign. On Sunday 5 June I took the train in Baden, and after a transfer in Bern and Geneva I arrived in Marseille 7 hrs later. Unlucky as I was, a huge thunderstorm started as soon as I left the train [...]

Visit of my brothers

From Saturday 21 till Saturday 28 May my two brothers visited me in Switzerland. We hadn’t seen each other since the beginning of the year, so it was a nice reunion. Besides talking about all sorts of things and enjoying each other company we also did quite some site-seeing.
On Sunday we took it easy, partly caused [...]

Pet for a while

Last night while I was doing the dishes I suddenly saw something moving on the wall. One quick look at it showed this cricket. After taking these pictures I climbed up the stepladder to catch it and bring it outside. But as soon as I was at the top of the ladder and looked up towards [...]

Karfreitag: beautiful day for a walk

Karfreitag (Goede vrijdag) is in the Aargau canton a free day. And since it was about 24°C, it was a beautiful day for a walk. The route I picked out of a info booklet of Baden was a 4 hrs, 13.4 km circular route, with 390 m climbing and obviously also 390 m descending. In short: [...]

Visit of parents

What is only three weeks ago seems ages since my parents visited me from 24 till 28 March. A lot has happened since, but in this blog I will only tell about the very nice weekend.
On Thursday evening just before 18:30 my parents “invaded” my little apartment. What was a relatively ordered house soon became very [...]

Carnaval in Baden

Well..what can I say about it…
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