This weekend I: investigated a hot coffee shop tip: Bar Infinito, on Sihlstrasse. With no less than five grinders nestled together on the counter, I had high hopes: although the espressos were fresh and short, the flavour was pretty mild.…
This weekend I: investigated a hot coffee shop tip: Bar Infinito, on Sihlstrasse. With no less than five grinders nestled together on the counter, I had high hopes: although the espressos were fresh and short, the flavour was pretty mild.…
This weekend I: attended a public PhD défense and subsequent party at the EPFL took a Saturday morning wander around Lausanne – this is one Swiss city I could actually like: with its crazy hills and soaring bridges, Saturday morning…
This weekend I/we: Booked a flight and hotel for San Francisco. Barring volcanic ash, I leave Thursday. Started building the wooden drummer model kit I picked up at the Science Museum in London. I like the idea of these and…
This May Day (Labour Day) weekend, I saw Dianne Reeves at the Tonhalle. If I had to sum her up in one word, it would be “energy”. A wide range of styles, from skat through gospel through standards. She sings…
Man walks out onto stage, sits down at the keyboard, plays the entire Goldberg Variations from beginning to end, gets up and walks back in again. At least, I imagine that’s what happened: I missed the first couple of variations…
A little bundle of joy appeared on the doorstep this morning minutes before leaving the house for a weekend in Amsterdam. Sure, the management company charges 50 CHF for a few postbox and doorbell name tags but then they go…
I hope to slowly work my way through my copy of “Prime Guide Zurich 2008/2009″, which I picked up at Pile of Books (#92) a few weeks back. This afternoon, thanks to an early furniture delivery – which unexpectedly included…
If, like me, you grew up watching bad (albeit classic) 1980s genre movies like “Robocop”, Detroit was the ultimate dystopian city of the future: gangs of marauding vigilantes roamed the streets; ordinary people eking out an existence hoping to avoid…
Unfurnished apartment living is a new world for a Dubliner newly arrived in Switzerland: while you avoid the possibility of inheriting a hideous couch, you had better find your own couch fast (and consider how it will look in your…
A new beginning: an apartment has been found. Well, a new beginning of sorts: now the shopping begins. There are a few interesting looking shops around the wonderfully named Schmiede Wiedikon, where I’m currently camped, so I take a slow…