Leaving Annecy & Mont Veyrier: Le Col des Contrebandiers – Smugglers’ Pass

Well, that’s it. I left Annecy for the last time on Wednesday. It’s not so much a farewell to France (not yet at least) since I’ll be spending the next month in France on holiday, but it is a farewell to my friends there of course, as well as a farewell to a kind of [...]

Read Full Post »

A Stolen Blog Subject: Premature Nostalgia

It’s that time of year again: time to say goodbye. Today was my last day of work here in Annecy (celebrated along with 3 other students leaving the company by bringing in food and drinks – I took in banana bread, the ’secret’ recipe (secret because I haven’t named the website where I found [...]

Read Full Post »

You can take the boy out of Texas, but you can’t take Texas out of the boy

I decided to ‘go back to my roots’ (or at least to where I was born) this evening by making fajitas for dinner. It’s been almost a year since I last had them (they’re a summer-ish food anyway, especially in a relatively mild European climate), and maybe this is just my inner-Texan speaking (let’s [...]

Read Full Post »

Sunday Evening Cycle

After a relatively busy weekend (people to see, bars to visit…), I wasn’t really expecting to have much of substance to post at the end of the weekend – except for the following video which is pretty funny.

However, that all changed when I decided to go for a cycle round/through town [...]

Read Full Post »

Pronto!

This weekend was a pretty busy one – I left France on Saturday morning, spent the day with my family in Switzerland and then attended a wedding in Italy from Sunday to Wednesday. I took two days off work, which was a welcome break, plus I had a third ‘free’ day [...]

Read Full Post »

Our Delhi Struggle

I just got back from playing tennis with a couple of friends – we played yesterday after work and today after work again, so my right arm is now feeling very sore… I’ve never really played tennis before, but have been a fairly avid fan for a couple of years now. Turns out [...]

Read Full Post »

Birthday

Happy birthday me. Twenty-two years old… I’m old – only another couple of years before I retire . Shame about the weather though. Bucketing rain isn’t exactly conducive to the beach and barbecue planned for today…

Read Full Post »