Image of the day
This particular scene attracted my attention the other day at the barracks.
Tags: army, SwissAlmost recovered
In my last post I mentioned that we were going to Parent’s Day at the Swiss Army Barracks of our son in Frauenfeld. In fact he sleeps in Frauenfeld due to size constraints but spends all his active time at Auenfeld Barracks a few kilometres away.
I won’t go into the details of the day but we spent more than 7 hours in the car going there and getting back and almost an hour of that time was in traffic jams around Zurich.
We did have a great day though and it was interesting to see all that Davis gets up to and now we can fit images to the faces and places he describes.
Fortunately the sun was shining but it was still bitterly cold and we really got the feeling of real Swiss Army Life which my Son-in-Law described as “running to wait and waiting to run” which seems pretty accurate. I will be posting some pics on Flickr in addition to the few I’m posting here.
Army Manouvers
Although it has become a little easier these past few years, army training is still more or less obligatory for men in Switzerland. Our son has been doing his “Service Militaire” since October and tomorrow is Family Day. The day starts at 9.00am on the other side of Switzerland over 300kms from Geneva.
So tomorrow morning we will be up at 3.30am in order to pick up our Son-in-law and make the 4 hour journey to Frauenfeld the other side of Winterthur.
That’s why we have to get a few hours sleep. Goodnight!
I found these videos on YouTube.
Going Solo
Regular visitors will know that I have “borrowed” a lot of inspiration from Stephanie Booth over at Climb to the Stars. She is probably Switzerland’s first real blogger and the local blogging scene is largely due to her untiring efforts for many years now. Although she was teaching when I first met her in Lausanne during a Bloggy Friday event some time ago, she is now freelancing and a full time net personality.
Recently she established her own company and is launching her first event “Going Solo” here in Switzerland. In Lausanne to be precise, on May the 16th. The venue is yet to announced but if I were you, I would reserve the date so as to be sure to attend. Knowing Stephanie, I can assure you that you really don’t want to miss out. Her bilingualism is even more well managed than mine so you don’t have to worry about any language difficulties.
Unfortunately my French speaking visitors rarely leave a comment in French so I continue to blog in English with the occasional splurge in French. I have periods where I try, just check it out. It’s one of those chicken and egg things that I haven’t worked out yet. If I had a French speaking following however, I would surely install the WordPress plugins that Stephanie has created to facilitate blogs in two or more languages. As you know, or will discover, she has many talents and one of those is in web development.
In order to organize an event you need to have a company and her company is called Going Far. Once she gets the graphical identity for Going Solo I will of course be hosting a banner.
As usual she is as thought provoking as she is inspiring and as I now work at 90% I have some time on my hands. If I had a bit more (and I’m working on that too) I might do a bit of freelancing myself to fill up that time agreably rather than just do nothing but relaxing.
So summing up, Stephanie is inspiring, Graham is aspiring and we will all meet up at Going Solo in May. Right?
Tags: Events, freelancing, lausanne, plugins, Swiss, WordPressReading list
