Tag: land of cheese and chocolate
Kooza!
Auntie Nat comped us tickets to go see Kooza in Bern. It was Bean’s first show and he loved it :-) We went to see the bears in the old town, did a bit of window shopping, then went to the show. After that, we all had a late (in the case of Bean, very late) dinner at Da Carlo in Lausanne and headed home. All in all, a good but tiring day.
Do you believe it was snowing buckets yesterday?
Snow on the vineyards
It’s been snowing off and on for the last week.
Pimp my ride sled
We were talking about local places to go sledding, a few days ago during lunch, when a co-worker mentioned that it was a very sensible to buy “breakdown” insurance if we were to rent a sled. He also mentioned that he’d purchased one a little while ago, but didn’t get the optional cowhide cushion on it.
Pimp my sled, indeed :)
This is why I love working in Europe
And nobody bats an eye.
English beef prices *sob*
9 quid a kilo for beef rib. In Switzerland, you’re looking at 70 francs a kilo. So. Not. Fair.
BSI Christmas lunch
The team went to lunch yesterday at Ko-An,a very nice sushi restaurant in Lutry, and then we went to the Alimentarium in Vevey for a Christmas chocolate workshop. The lunch service wasn’t all that fast, but the food was really, really good! Afterwards, we made a Christmas chocolate cottage. It was funny as anything to watch a bunch of adults in silly plastic aprons concentrating completely on trying to work chocolate. Even the workshop facilitator commented to his assistant how quiet everyone was :)
All pictures here: https://www.flubu.com/blog/pictures/bsi_alimentarium_dec_2014/
Piles of coins
Last weekend, after a convoluted story involving Bean and money, we decided to sort out the mountain of change in my bedside table bucket. Turns out that we had 98.50 francs in 5, 10 and 20 centime coinsm (for those of you counting, that’s about 700 coins). We wanted to go to the bank to get those changed, but they were closed (as was the post office). I took them to work with me today with the intention of getting it sorted at the post office on campus. Turns out, they only accept rolls of coins. Guess what I did over my lunch break.
Proper fish n’ chips
There was a proper chippy van in front of Jim’s English Market tonight, omgwtfbbq!!!!1!
The portion is a bit stingy on the chips, but SO GOOOOOOOOD!!