Pablo Picasso

So I had planned on having my group, PICASSO, over for dinner... The number of PICASSOans and ex-PICASSOans are growing, so I decided to do a tapas thing...

The next day my professor reminds me the 25th of October is Pablo Picasso's birthday...

Is it eerily co-incidental that I had a get together and served nothing but tapas for the PICASSO people on the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso's birthday? I, nor anyone else, had not the slightest idea that it was his birthday...

Skiing in Fall!!!

Officially it is still Fall, so we go to take some Fall pictures. It is cold and I am miserable, but... Not these Quebecois - they artificially snowed Mt St Sauveur, the largest Night Ski Resort in North America and started skiing already....

One and half years later, these people still surprise me!!!

Borderless Europe

It really is very exhilarating to cross country borders in the EU, without any stopping or check point or whatever. Even though Switzerland is not part of the EU, their borders with France were wide open like this... Old check points standing as ghostly reminders only, of an era bygone, of a time when people were not as smart as they are today...

My Money and Theirs

My Swiss Francs and Euros... The first time I exchanged money, it was in Milan - so I gave them 100 of my Canadian dollars and they gave me like 50 of their Euros... Agggg... I gave 100 of mine, and I want 100 of yours!!!!!

Home Sick!!!

this is My Home, people of Geneva!

Saint-Genis-Pouilly

This window pattern was common in may homes in Saint-Genis-Pouilly. I have seen this pattern in some houses in Minneapolis too.

Depanneaur with super helpful owner... France, at least Saint-Genis-Pouilly, dies on Monday... everything, well almost everything was closed on Monday. Espèces de paresseux!!

Geneva, Switzerland

Geneva, I was really surprised at how big this city is; ok, not nearly as big as Montreal, but I somehow thought it was smaller than it actually was. With all its watchmakers and bankers Geneva is really a pretentious town, but if you take the time to find your way through, you can find nice little nooks and corners...
Jet d eau, in Lake Geneva, situated where Lake Geneva empties in to the Rhone river.





The United Nations office in Europe.




























My lonely planet guide book mentioned Switzerland railways are famous for their graffiti stations. I am not entirely sure why this sets apart Switzerland from any other station anywhere in the world, which in general is also graffiti-fied.