Posts about Switzerland
Switzerland, a quadrilingual country in the middle of Europe, has been my home since 2001.
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The “Grimsel Snake” (“Grimselschlange”) is a cloud formation in the mountain region between canton Bern and Wallis, where the clouds pour over the ridge slowly like water when the humidity and wind combine in the right direction. Here’s a time-lapse video I filmed of it from the Furka Bélvèdere car park in 2016.
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Lots of work stopped me from going out so much, but we did get in a great trip to canton Wallis.
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Making more of an effort to publish moving pictures, including one from Dartmoor in June.
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With a name like “Ice Path”, you know before you arrive that a hiking route is going to be a pretty spectacular one.
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It seems as though there will be a fair amount of travelling for me this year, both around Switzerland (which is pretty normal for Jo and for me in our time off), and abroad. After visiting England in March, I was back again in April to visit Mum; later in the month, I rode the…
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This month’s set of photos is especially random, but that’s the whole point; not just of the ongoing photo series here on my website, but also in my life. The more varied and random, the better for me.
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The “random things” posts are primarily about random stuff I’ve seen in the course of a month. The random stuff I saw in December was spread over four countries.
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A good pool of light and a wet street will always draw my camera more quickly than a quaint festive scene.
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Using 1970s technology to drive a tank through a miniature landscape.
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The gradual arrival of autumn; clouds clinging to the mountains, fresher air and a wider variety of colours in the landscape. My favourite time of the year is coming.
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A lovely month full of experiences, but fewer random photographs than usual.
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Heading to the heights of the Furka Pass to hike into the glacial screes.
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Four shots from the window of an easyJet flight from Switzerland to England in 2009.
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When it used to get hot back in the days when I used to work in Brienz, a lunchtime dip in the freezing waters of Lake Brienz was the thing. When I worked in Bern, I used to go to the river with colleagues and float along for 20 minutes or so to cool down.…
