LUCERNE TO INTERLAKEN
Even though it has been two months since the last Switzerland post, we still want to blog the entire trip. During the last eight weeks, we took time to learn a new video editing system, improve photo editing skills and learn how to use several supporting software tools. We hope the viewing experience is better. […]
LAKE GENEVA EXCURSION TO YVOIRE, FRANCE
Technology has thwarted us a bit lately, but we remain committed to the task of blogging our summer trip. The YouTube videos you have seen so far are courtesy of Microsoft Movie Maker, but I am in a remote location and my laptop does not have the graphics capacity that Microsoft requires. I finally found […]
THE LION OF LUCERNE
HELVETIORUM FIDEI AC VIRTUTI (“TO THE LOYALTY AND BRAVERY OF THE SWISS”) Below is our video of a monument dedicated to the Swiss Guard mercenaries who died protecting the house of King Louis XIV of France during 1792 tenth of August insurrection. Six hundred men — more than two-thirds of the force died. Swiss Guards […]
THE PUBLIC FACILITIES
“Foreign toilets can be traumatic, but they are one of those little things that can make travel so much more interesting than staying at home.” – Rick Steves, Rick Steves’ Europe I would never say that I am fascinated with the wide variety of names that we encounter for “the facilities.” In Ireland, it’s the […]
SWISS TUNNELS
“It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to the moon, dig a tunnel under the English Channel. There’s no reason they couldn’t likewise devise ways to protect infrastructure from the worst hurricanes, earthquakes and other calamities, natural and man-made.” – Henry Petroski The first […]
FLUGHAFEN
Traveling north of 60 … “If we find poetry in the service station and motel, if we are drawn to the airport or train carriage, it is perhaps because, in spite of their architectural compromises and discomforts, in spite of their garish colours and harsh lighting, we implicitly feel that these isolated places offer us […]
