Posts about city
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Pounding London’s streets
Photos from a wet night-time walk from Tate Modern to Southwark, via London Bridge and Tower Bridge, in 2014.
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Christmas lights in London
Another compilation of time-lapse sequences in London by Mattia Bicchi, which (as usual) makes me miss the city and encourage me to try and fit in a weekend there.
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Bern’s Lorraine quarter
The Lorraine quarter in Bern, not far from my office, used to be the trendy area in which to live, meet, dine and hang out. These days, a lot of the trendies seem to have moved on, but the quarter is still a nice network of little streets in which to take a stroll. Despite the […]
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City walking
Walking from my office around a variety of city streets before returning to the office is a good way to put aside the complexities of my work for a short time.
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I miss London
…and I react with a start every time I realize how long it’s been since I was last there.
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Where Toblerone comes from*
A recent blog post by a fellow Brit resident in Switzerland prompted me to head out into Bern. My goal for the lunchtime trip was a university building to the north of the railway tracks; a blue-painted building in the style common throughout the city, which dates to the end of the nineteenth century and whose original use is synonymous with the production of Swiss chocolate.
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Spring in Basel
A small collection of images I took on a spring trip to Basel in 2005 with friends from the Swiss blogging scene.
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Sulgenbach Park, Bern
One of my favourite finds during my lunchtime walks around the city of Bern, this park is a haven of quiet and surrounded by a mix of views and architecture from the earlier part of the 20th century and onwards.
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Life amongst death
A visit to the ruined city of Pompeii is primarily about history, destruction and death. But there is a great deal of life there too; not just the tourists in abundance, but also a wide range of gardens and plants which have flourished amongst the dusty courtyards and cobbled streets. Beautiful hedges, flowers and trees […]
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Anti-W.E.F. demo in Bern
More of my photos from this year’s anti-W.E.F. protests in Bern are online at Flickr.
