Posts about Brienz BE
Brienz is principally a traditional village, from the violin-makers’ school to a plethora of carpenters, joiners and woodwork artists. Busy in the summer with tourists travelling between Lucerne and Interlaken, and peaceful in the winter season, it’s a great starting point for a boat trip along the lake, or a post bus trip up into the mountains.
One year on
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A year ago today, I left my previous employer after seven and a half years to start a new working life in Bern.
Jungfrau Zeitung secures its newspaper business
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The newest version of the newspaper, to which I still subscribe online despite no longer working or living in the catchment area, produced by a small handful of people and covering purely local news instead of falling to the temptation of reporting news from more distant regions, is at least a match for – if…
Actor portraits – Ueli der Chnächt
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Costumed portraits of actors in the Brienz Dramatic Society production of Jeremias Gotthelf’s “Ueli der Chnächt”.
Photo book “In Brienz”
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A personal review of my years with my previous employer in Brienz, primarily for my own photo bookshelf.
In Brienz
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I’ve been taking a rest from photography for a while, as I had become addicted to finding “the next photo” and it was taking over much of what I did. (Hence the lack of updates here at Permanent Tourist.) I’ve been able to get my fix at work over the past weeks, where I’ve been
Last Day in Brienz
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Photos from my last day in Brienz after seven and a half years with Gossweiler Media AG are now online at Flickr.
TFI Thursday
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So this is what it feels like to be on a last day at work. Not much different from any day over the past few weeks, as I began winding down some time ago and I completed all the clearing out of desks, drawers and files last week. Today, it’s just finishing up bits and
Into the end
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In a day less than two weeks, I shall be leaving this office for the last time.
Desk Memories – Gossweiler Media
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Photos of the desk at which I have developed most of the websites produced by Gossweiler Media in Brienz since 2001.
Lunchtime jaunt
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There was a work car parked outside which no-one was using over lunchtime, so I decided to pinch it and drive up a random mountain road. I drove higher and higher as the road got narrower and narrower, avoiding small rocks in the road and marvelling at the panoramic view toward Meiringen in the east
Chäsbrätel
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Winter is upon us again, which means we can eat Chäsbrätel as much as we like!
Them Again
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Almost every day, without fail by fine weather, this woman walks with her child in a pushchair along the lakeside path opposite my office. Every time, the child is wearing her hair in bunches and a pair of oversized dark sunglasses and they pause on these rocks for the mother to take photographs. The mother
