tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78007742351574693922024-03-05T14:12:43.032+01:00ExpatCHAn expat's life in the Confédération HelvétiqueBill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.comBlogger201125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-61978256175941113162021-01-03T16:57:00.000+01:002021-01-03T16:57:49.966+01:00Getting the vaccine – should I wait or should I go now?<p><b><span style="line-height: 27.600000381469727px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Canton of Geneva says I’m nearly at the front of the line to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Should I?</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="line-height: 27.600000381469727px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">By Bill Harby</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I’m not a front-line medical worker, so how did I get so close to the front of the line to get the vaccine? Nor am I a grocery store worker, a restaurant server, or anyone who needs to come into close contact with the public except when I take the bus or tram. I’m just someone who, due to my age, got placed just behind those first in line.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Beginning Jan. 4th, those age 75 and older in Canton Geneva are beginning to <a href="https://www.ge.ch/se-faire-vacciner-contre-covid-19" target="_blank">receive their first shots</a>.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I’m 68, so I’m in the second age group – 65 to 74 – who can get ours starting sometime in February depending on availability. This is also when frontline medical workers will be eligible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I want to get vaccinated as soon as possible, but I’m having second thoughts. Not because needles give me the heebie-jeebies. They don’t. When I get a shot I just look away and stare at a blank space on the wall that is suddenly intensely fascinating. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Nor am I having second thoughts because I fear serious side effects. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is the first one available in Switzerland, has completed the usual Phase-3 trials all new medications go through under ordinary circumstances. The vaccine has already been given to more than 43,000 volunteers, who have exhibited almost no side effects, except for a few people who were prone to allergic reactions. I’m not allergic to anything I know of other than failed American despots and girls doing that smooch face on social media. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I also don’t have any underlying medical issues that make me more vulnerable to Covid-19. I just lucked into the good timing of recently watching middle age vanish in my rearview mirror. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I’m having second thoughts about getting the vaccine <i>tout de suite</i>precisely because I’m not among those higher risk groups who work in essential services. I’m more or less retired, and work almost entirely from home. My wife and I are embarrassingly content living our cloistered, online-enabled lives, only masking and sanitizing to run errands, or get groceries or takeout.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So, to paraphrase that respected public health group, The Clash, should I wait or should I go now?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My wife, who recently retired from the Geneva lab of a multi-national pharmaceutical testing company, plans to wait awhile to see if the first wave of public inoculations reveals any icky side effects.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Another family member, who’s a genetics researcher at Geneva University, and lives and breathes data, notes that the vaccines “use a novel technology,” so he gets it that some people might be skittish. Nevertheless, under these crisis circumstances, would he get the vaccine if it were offered to him today? He’s young, fit and healthy. “Yeah, I would,” he says. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We’re already seeing prominent politicians, public health officials and celebrities being photographed and filmed getting inoculated, hoping, they say, to encourage those who are afraid of needles or vaccines in general to roll up their sleeves. Of course, there’s been the inevitable backlash: Why do these bigwigs get to have the vaccine first?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Were I to get poked on TV, it’s doubtful anyone would change their mind about getting theirs. So, thank goodness, that’s not on my conscience.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">What <i>is</i>on my conscience is this: As long as the first deliveries of vaccines must be rationed, how dare I cut in line before every frontline medical worker who wants one has gotten theirs, and before any young mother stocking grocery store shelves, and before my friend serving kebab every day in the café down the street?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On the other hand, how dare I <i>not</i>protect myself with the vaccine as soon as possible, knowing that my wife and other loved ones would be rather discombobulated if I were to become seriously C-19 sick?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And what if most of us decide to wait and see if the first wave of vaccinated populations suddenly sprout purple horns? How long would we wait? A month? A year? If so, how long would that delay the mass immunity the world needs to smother the pandemic?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">I'l</span>l still be weighing all these questions one day soon when I sit down in a bright, sterile room, stare at a fascinating blank space on the wall, and roll up my sleeve.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 27.600000381469727px;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-48460040172873476842018-05-16T11:31:00.002+02:002018-05-16T11:31:56.683+02:00Scratching the Cobblestone Surface in Mechelen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">We’re just back from a quick scouting expedition to the deceptively handsome historic town of Mechelen, Belgium, an hour’s flight north of our Geneva home.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Outwardly civilized and friendly, its streets lined with ornate buildings from the 16<sup>th</sup>, 17<sup>th</sup>and 18<sup>th</sup>centuries, Mechelen’s center can lull you into reveries of men and women in powdered wigs and buckled shoes sharing witty pleasantries in the trilled tones that decorate the Flemish Dutch language.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">But beware. Modern-day danger lurks. A moment’s inattention while crossing the cobblestones can leave you tattooed with bicycle tire treads up your backside. Most of Flanders is chessboard flat, which is just fine for Mechelen’s countless cyclists criss-crossing in every direction. You’ll see little kids you wouldn’t think could walk yet riding behind Mum and Dad, businessmen in tailored suits peddling to meetings, school girls in fluttering dresses, and grandmas who you wouldn’t think could still walk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">But bike traffic is only one of the city’s dangers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">If you eat enough of the famous Belgian fries dipped in gobs of</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><i style="font-size: 16pt;">mayonnaise </i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">(which is the only thing that makes them “Belgian”), your cardiologist may well write his resignation letter on your latest ekg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Nevertheless, there are good reasons to risk a visit to Mechelen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">One example: asparagus. The city, about 20 km. north of Brussels and south of Antwerp, is in the heart of Flanders, where local asparagus, especial</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">ly white asparagus, is popular. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">It was the height of the season when we were there, so the chalkboard daily-specials menus in front of Mechelen restaurants were scribbled with a list of asparagus options. At my terrace table on Grote Markt (Big Market) square, I chose one with smoked salmon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">My waiter explained that they prepare the asparagus by first briefly boiling it, then dunking it immediately in cold water to preserve texture (between crunchy and mushy), then simmering the spears in LOTS of butter. Perfect texture, full of flavor. I seasoned mine only with a Mechelen pilsner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Another assault on your health in Mechelen are the church bells. Every few blocks, an old church suddenly looms. Some of them ring their bells (or electronic organs with the “bells” stop open full throttle) every hour or more day and night. Our hotel was near the imposing Gothic tower of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Rumbold's_Cathedral" target="_blank">Saint Rumbold’s Cathedral</a>, which looks less like a stairway to heaven than an upscale condo for bats, one of which almost flew in our window one night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The cathedral carillon music set list included “Ode to Joy” and “Little Drummer Boy” (in mid-May). Another nearby church graced us with the practice sessions of its carillon keyboardist playing scales and favorite phrases from hymnbook hits. A hot mike mistake or hubris?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Such are the weighty matters you can contemplate while strolling the lanes of old Mechelen. But don’t get too lost in your thoughts </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">…</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-9345755739262787712018-03-19T16:52:00.000+01:002018-03-19T16:52:20.774+01:00Is this really Switzerland's oldest town?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The town of Chur in Canton Graubünden, says it's the oldest in Switzerland. But that all depends on your definition of "town," as archaeologists explained for <a href="https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/chur_is-swiss-town-one-of-world-s-oldest--/43963316" target="_blank">my story on swissinfo</a>.<br />
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And how does Chur's age compare to the city that's widely accepted as one of the world's oldest?<br />
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Not in question is the charm of Chur's medieval Old Town.<br />
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Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-82548936956254541302017-11-15T17:27:00.000+01:002018-03-21T13:01:07.576+01:00My Swiss Story<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My self-interview for "<a href="http://lenews.ch/2017/11/14/my-swiss-story-bill-from-hawaii/" target="_blank">My Swiss Story</a>" at my favorite Swiss online newspaper, Le News. </div>
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Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-12218976620155218712017-10-10T12:36:00.000+02:002017-10-10T12:36:15.986+02:00Switzerland: Four Official Languages, an Unofficial Fifth, Lots of Translators<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
With a population of only 8.3 million, Switzerland has four official languages and that pushy unofficial fifth. And so too do we have lots of <a href="https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/translator-profiles_bridging-linguistic-barriers-in-switzerland/43582838" target="_blank">professional translators with opinions about the spread of English</a>.<br />
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Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-87024538098247955972017-09-04T20:15:00.000+02:002017-09-04T20:20:55.341+02:00Poetry Found<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We were wheeling along a neighborhood boardwalk this Monday afternoon and came upon a little table piled with poetry, and two gentlemen offering to read to us and everyone.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">For more on Lionel and Claude: www.theatredusentier.ch</span></td></tr>
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Our long, hot summer (knock on wood) draws les Genevois in the know to a certain stretch of the Rhone to swim and watch its beauty and hijinks.<br />
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Yesterday, a regatta of whacky boats and sailors bedecked the river.<br />
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In Switzerland's famous "direct democracy," voters frequently are called on to vote on a host of candidates and initiatives -- and now, a beauty contest for the country's <a href="http://lenews.ch/2017/07/24/its-time-to-vote-for-switzerlands-most-beautiful-village/" target="_blank">most beautiful village</a>. <br />
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Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-946515853240481112017-04-22T17:39:00.001+02:002018-11-06T20:45:34.566+01:00March for Science, Geneva Switzerland<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Empirical analysis has repeatedly shown that scientists are both adorable and funny. This was reproven on this gorgeous Saturday in Geneva's Jardin Anglais during the March for Science, one of many such marches taking place on March 22, Earth Day, around the planet.<br />
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At a rally before the march, several scientists spoke in English, French or German to the crowd of 2000-plus on topics including sub-atomic particle physics and Legos (re building blocks: "Everyone knows the electron, but you should find out about neutrinos!"). Each blatantly highly-educated speaker explained in detail only a colleague could love why science matters not only to them but to our generations yet unborn. So sweet, their heart-felt over-sharing.<br />
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You can't throw a rock in Geneva without hitting a scientist. They come to study and work here from all over the world in many fine institutions, including CERN, the World Health Organization, the World Wildlife Fund, UNESCO, the World Meteorological Organization, and on and on.<br />
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After several speakers, everyone embarked on a march along the lakeside. Actually it was more of a stroll on this cool, sunny day, people of all ages, mostly speaking English, waving signs and chanting slogans.<br />
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"Science not silence!"<br />
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"What do we want? Science-based policy! When do we want it? After peer review!"<br />
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"Got polio? Me neither. Thanks, science"<br />
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The name of the global poster child for science ignorance, also known as the President of the United States, was excruciatingly avoided.</div>
Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-91725416922936153702017-02-19T12:04:00.002+01:002017-02-19T12:06:47.395+01:00Romantic Swiss Getaways for Spring<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-28355090293215709612016-12-07T11:00:00.000+01:002016-12-07T13:10:41.519+01:00Zürich Honors Headless Bro and Sis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Do you think brother and sister Felix and Regula thought it was worth it to lose their heads to become <a href="http://lenews.ch/2016/12/06/siblings-carry-their-severed-heads-40-paces-to-become-zurichs-patron-saints/" target="_blank">the patron saints of Zürich</a>? Not to mention their loyal-to-a-fault servant, Exuperantius, who also got relieved of his head, but received no sainthood.<br />
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Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-64908911769547483082016-12-02T11:05:00.003+01:002016-12-02T11:37:10.651+01:00Weaponized Soup Soon to Defeat Savoyard Raiders (Again) at Geneva City Walls<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
'Twas a cold December night in 1602 when a woman carrying a cauldron of dangerously steaming soup spied Savoyard soldiers attempting to storm the city walls. The rest is scalding history and legend, and is the reason for <a href="http://lenews.ch/2016/11/30/genevas-escalade-festival-promises-to-repulse-savoyard-attacks-from-9-dec/" target="_blank">Geneva's proudest, most colorful annual festival</a>, coming up Dec. 9th.<br />
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Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-42570760498225111732016-11-20T20:47:00.003+01:002016-11-20T20:57:55.462+01:00New Fave Burger Joint<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today in Pâquis, Geneva's intriguing neighborhood full of immigrants and Swiss who run cafés, restaurants, and other, ahem, businesses, I had the luck of the flâneur. Flâneurs are people who simply wander to see what they may discover. Today this flâneur found The Hamburger Foundation, his new fave burger joint.<br />
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The menu consists of exactly three items:<br />
Hamburger<br />
Cheeseburger<br />
Bacon cheeseburger<br />
(CHF 19, 20, 21)<br />
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Vegetarians can order from the menu in some other resto.<br />
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Each delicious juicy burger (all Swiss meat, cooked medium pink unless otherwise ordered) comes with a green salad, frites and coleslaw. Squirt bottles of ketchup, mayo and American-style mustard are on the table.<br />
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Wines are listed under three non-snob categories, one red and one white in each:<br />
Cheap CHF 5<br />
Good CHF 7<br />
Great CHF 8<br />
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There are two beers too. And yet, when it comes to spirits, choices suddenly blossom. (That's another story.)<br />
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Plus, there's, believe it or not, an oyster bar in the back. (Also another story.)<br />
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The Hamburger Foundation started with a pop-up truck, then came the Pâquis restaurant a couple years ago, and now a second truck, and soon two more locations in Geneva. This fun, friendly place is owned by three guys who've been friends since high school in Geneva. They have roots in New York, France and the U.K. They always said that one day they'd open a business together. I'm glad they did. </div>
Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-72070640234170878272016-11-08T12:53:00.001+01:002016-11-08T13:01:29.642+01:00Charlie Chaplin is Alive and Still Funny in Vevey, Switzerland<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Charlie Chaplin, one of the immortals of cinema tragi-comedy, now has his own museum in Vevey, Switzerland, just outside of Montreux. You can get a little glimpse here at my latest story for Le News, <a href="http://lenews.ch/2016/11/08/charlie-chaplin-still-making-us-laugh-at-the-new-chaplins-world-in-vevey/" target="_blank">Chaplin's World</a>. <span id="goog_333248680"></span><span id="goog_333248681"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><br />
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Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-14534191123582331062016-10-18T12:01:00.002+02:002016-10-18T12:01:44.517+02:00Frankenstein's Monster's First Murder in Geneva<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We've always felt sorry for Dr. Frankenstein's creature, haven't we? Like all of us, he didn't ask to be born -- nor to become an early empathetic anti-hero. Why did he kill? Will he ever find his bride? His soul? What will he do if he ever finds Dr. Frankenstein again? His questions still walk the earth, <a href="http://lenews.ch/2016/10/17/frankensteins-monster-spotted-in-geneva-at-his-first-murder-site/" target="_blank">as does he to this day in Geneva.</a><br />
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Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-80683819794660371442016-10-11T13:08:00.000+02:002016-10-11T13:09:21.951+02:00Only One Day in Geneva? Seriously?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
No worries. You can see a lot even if you only have one day in Geneva. Here's my story in <a href="http://lenews.ch/2016/10/10/exploring-geneva-in-one-day/" target="_blank">Le News</a>. Plus three more pix from last autumn at beautiful Parc des Bastions.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Parc des Bastions</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Giant chess at Parc des Bastions</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">The Protestant Reformation's Founding Fathers still thinking about things at Parc des Bastions</td></tr>
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Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-83299487013880938172016-10-07T18:14:00.000+02:002016-10-07T18:21:38.374+02:00Five Gorgeous Swiss City Parks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A great thing about little Switzerland is that you can hop on the train and visit five parks in five cities in just two days -- without even rushing. I got to do that for my latest <a href="http://lenews.ch/2016/10/06/five-gorgeous-swiss-parks-for-contemplating-the-splendor-of-autumn/" target="_blank">Le News</a> assignment. Here are some more pix.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Bern: The Botanical Garden</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Bern: In the Palm House</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Bern: My drinking buddy by the kiosk</td></tr>
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Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-34997601694245827662016-09-19T15:45:00.000+02:002016-09-19T15:56:56.688+02:00Please Don't Eat the Swiss Chocolate Train<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Visits to a cheese factory and chocolate factory, each with its own rather remarkable self-guided tour, plus a stroll through one of Switzerland's most intriguing medieval villages. We traveled in beautiful, Belle Epoque train cars.<br />
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You can read about <a href="http://lenews.ch/2016/09/18/montreux-to-gruyere-on-the-chocolate-train-switzerlands-most-delicious-trip/" target="_blank">The Chocolate Train</a> tour in my latest story for Le News.<br />
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Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-5625129048313357242016-08-12T12:23:00.000+02:002016-08-12T15:47:47.032+02:00Switzerland's Biggest Street Music Festival<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The 13th annual amazing Bern Busker's Festival is going on this weekend. I got to cover it for <a href="http://lenews.ch/2016/08/12/switzerlands-biggest-street-music-festival-is-happening-now-in-bern/" target="_blank">Le News.</a> Here are some more photos.<br />
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Pantelis Makkas needed a location to shoot a video art project. "I want to rewrite that Aesop fable, the story of the <a href="https://www.umass.edu/aesop/content.php?n=31&i=2" target="_blank">battle between the Sun and the wind</a>. This time, the wind will win."<br />
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Pantelis, iconoclast to the last.<br />
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He is one of 15 international artists who've been invited by an <a href="http://digitaria.gr/" target="_blank">avant-garde Greek fashion designer</a> to contribute a video to be shown at the debut of her weird new tunic. </div>
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Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-5228242058836652442016-07-08T22:39:00.000+02:002016-07-09T12:47:03.452+02:00Ohio 4th<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Marietta, Ohio has a cemetery filled with Revolutionary War veterans and their descendants.<br />
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Marietta began as a small outpost within the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territory" target="_blank">Northwest Territory</a> that eventually comprised six states. In the 18th-century, fur traders from France and Britain lived uneasily by each other and native tribes, leading to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War" target="_blank">French and Indian War.</a><br />
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During the American Civil War this area was part of the Underground Railroad smuggling Southern slaves to "freedom" in the North.<br />
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Long before that, between about 800 BCE and 400 CE, this area was home to tribes who built mounds to bury their dead and for other reasons we may never learn.<br />
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Today you can still touch Marietta's history, its red brick buildings, clapboard homes and streets shaded by grand old trees.<br />
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Bill Harbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357508150491052060noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800774235157469392.post-11868242193159618692016-06-11T13:51:00.000+02:002016-06-11T14:16:05.437+02:00Into the Bowels of the Jet d'eau, Geneva's Famous Landmark<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">The nozzle is only 10 cm in diameter. The water jets up from the outer circle. The narrow inner circle mixes in air, giving the fountain its distinctive white color, making it visible from far away.</td></tr>
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Gérard Luyet, who oversees operation of the Jet d'eau, leads the way into what he calls "the bowels" of the huge fountain.</div>
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The second annual Street Food Fest is just finishing up this weekend, a pop-up caravanserai of delicious street dishes from all over, including Japan, Venezuela, Mexico, Bulgaria, Palestine, India, Italy, Spain, Vietnam, Thailand, the U.K., the U.S., and even Switzerland (fresh perch -- the longest line we saw was at that truck!). Plus fresh juices, beer, wine and completely out-of-place techno music, which was at a blessedly low volume, so could be easily ignored.<br />
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I tasted two dishes. My crispy-juicy, chicken tacos were made by DeliMex. Their truck pops up all around Geneva.</div>
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Then there was this wonderfully sloppy wonder from an Austrian truck, Fische Futter ("futter" means "fodder") -- salmon with salad and caramelized onions with a teriyaki honey mustard sauce on a black bun that I'd really not know too much about.</div>
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MF had Palestinian hummus from Hummus & Friends, and Bulgarian pastry from Poushe.</div>
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Tonight and tomorrow, Geneva is taking part in La Nuit des Musées, like many other cities and towns around Europe this weekend. Museums around the city are open into the night, some with special exhibitions. Like Le Musée d'Ethnographie. <br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">There were three concerts back to back -- </span><span style="text-align: left;">a Moroccan band of men sitting, singing and clanging hand cymbals, </span><span style="text-align: left;">a Haitian Voodoo percussion band, and a Syrian group with Whirling Dervish dancers. </span></div>
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