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For the record:
Confetti is called Räppli in Basel Deutsch.
Confetti is called coriandoli in Italian.
I stumbled across a temporary art gallery along the board fence of a construction site in downtown Basel.
An excellent idea.
See also this online gallery of Bauzaun Art in Hamburg.
An intense heading for a small observation, while cycling home from work:
I noticed that many drivers and other cyclists make a lot of assumptions. A sincere road traffic faith that everything will work out in the end.
For instance, I signaled that I was planning to turn left, and pulled across the road [...]
I went to see the Sempé show today. I had seen parts of it during the Museumsnacht, but the small museum was over crowded and I decided at the time that I’d come back another day.
My French grammar books at school were illustrated with cartoons [...]
How do you know you’ve arrived at the Basel* Swiss railway station?
You can hear at least 2 people calling out at regular intervals:
Surprise (French pronounication)
*Basel has 3 train stations.
The jog log:
Slow but steep run to Bettingen (the long way) through slush, mud and melted snow. The temperature was around 5 to 8 degrees plus. Perfect running weather. The soles of my feet were burning for much of the way. Maybe the wrong pair of socks…? But I kept going and [...]
Still find snow exciting. Like a little kid. Frozen water falling from the sky.
The tag: living in a deep freezer
Before I moved to Switzerland I read an article discussing the idea or rather the vision of Switzerland being one metropolitan area with ultra-fast trains zipping to and fro between the commercial centres.
Recently this topic has filtered through to me again. I’m assuming that in a specialized context it has been discussed all along.
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