Picture of the Week

finally i got some time to sort through the pile of pictures i took on vacation in london. it’ amazing how many pictures you take, when you don’t have to care about any restrictions. the one below was taken in the tate modern , a very impressive old power-station converted by Herzog & de Meuron , two swiss architects. the main hall (see a panorama here ) serves as the “main floor” for exhibitions and was only filled with some loudspeakers (by bruce naumann ) (that exhibition was about as good as the link is…). nonetheless i was able to get quite a good shot of the eerie afternoon glow outside.

the image below is a crop from an image from the bunch i shot this weekend, hence it’s quite grainy (keep in mind, it’s shot with a puny dsc-u20 ), but still i like it, mostly because the cable cuts nicely through the image. and it makes a nice desktop background.

if you’d like to see the rest of the images , then head over to the /pics section.

the past friday was absolutely amazing at work. as you might know (or not…) the swiss messengers have a collective product: swissconnect . hence, if a customer wants to send a parcel to any other town in switzerland, he just gives us a call, and we do the rest.

pick it up at his door, drive to the train station, put it on a train, and another partner grabs it from that train and delivers the parcel. anything goes. passports from lausanne, movie rolls from ostermundigen to zurich.

since i just cannot stop skiing i went to grindelwald on saturday with pesche and sabine. no single picture stands out, so i just uploaded all of ’em to a new set over at flicker . if you’d like to see them, go there.

my parents spend a week on the bettmeralp and i’ve been visiting them for three days. the weather was quite bad, but the snow was perfect, and i really start to like my new skis .

the pic below shows me having some fun in a locker at the cable car station (yes i’d have fit in, but then the picture would be only half as funny…)

i spent the weekend in lech with mara. we thought we’d go skiing a lot, but then it turned out to be really bad weather. on saturday it rained heavily and yesterday there was quite a lot of snow (they closed the road leading to lech just after we left, so we were pretty much the last ones to get out of there…). the picture below shows the view on the slopes yesterday :-)

this week was really busy, i was giving computer science lessons in kirchberg while still working nearly normally.

luckily i was rewarded with the nicest afternoon at work during this week full of snow , so i only biked privately in the snow.

the picture below is from one evening, coming home. riding fast even with a lot of snow on the street.

[1]: i know, i took much more, since i also delete a lot, but the picture of me is number 4000 in my iphoto library

so the image of the last week shows you the rotten watch of the trainstation in gensingen, where pesche and me have been this weekend. we both went to the 16th international masters competition of the ssv ingelheim . since the poor swimmers don’t have a pool the competition was held in the cozy city of gensingen . since there was absolutely nothing to do, we were so bored that we spent two hours in the local mall, which was not really funny, but warm.