The last days of the year have had a dark and snowy mood. Theatrical. I’ll back-date the honeymoon posts (as this blog serves as something like a journal for me), but this will be the last proper post for 2008. I close with some recent photographs…
p/s balancing the spooky mood are the utterly insane german [...]
Nope, not the home of the Hindu goddess of death and destruction, just the new digs of Kim and Ali.
You asked, we listened, so here are some pictures.
After nine months in a single room studio, a two bedroom flat feels positively rambly. It’s a big two-bedroom by my standards and it’s heaven. It’s also [...]
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
~Vladimir Nabokov
I woke yesterday morning before the sun. My sleeping habits have been quite wonky since returning, so I can say only better to wake at five than be up until five, both of which have transpired this week.
Perhaps it was the eerie silence of the first [...]
Here are a few views from the Early Gothic Collégiale Church, that is both the focal point of town and the primary view from our apartment. It’s bells create the rhythm of time here–y favorite is the fifteen minutes they ring at 6pm (aka 18:00) Saturday, which to me marks the weeks true end. Shops [...]
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I’m not sure how to live now, without an accordion soundtrack.
~ Michelle Plochere, treasured friend, de facto maid of honor, dual coast wedding guest
In our first week back in Neuchâtel I am struck by two things: I’m glad to be back, and I’m glad to be married. In the [...]
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My my my. New York put on such a glorious show today. After yet another dress fitting (still feeling like a chiffon asparagus) I headed into Central Park to find the spot I reserved (from Switzerland) to get married. The Ladies Pavilion is a Victorian cast-iron structure designed by Jacob Wrey [...]
“il faut prendre les gens comme ils sont et non pas comment l’on voudrait qu’ils soient.” (people should be taken as they are and not how they would like to be seen.) Such is the wisdom of Miss Fête des Vendanges.
Vines have been cultivated on the Neuchatel hillsides for over ten centuries, and the [...]
High on a hill was a lonely goatherd ~ Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
Loud was the voice of the lonely goatherd ~ Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo
Folks in a town that was quite remote heard ~ Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
Lusty and clear from the goatherd’s [...]
We visited our friends Klaus and Sabine and their two sons in their vacation cabin for a night. It was heaven, and very much needed! We stayed near Chur, in the Medieval village of Parpan–a magical place that looks exactly like what everyone imagines when you say “I live in Switzerland!” Very Von Trapp.
Parpan [...]
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The story goes that the German-born physicist Albert Einstein worked out his theory of relativity while employed as a clerk at the Berne patent office. We visited this Medieval town–the capital of Switzerland–this weekend with Alfonso’s cousin Antonio (of terrifying Angel fame) and his girlfriend Mimi.
The town’s best known icon [...]