My legs are pretty sore from dancing 🙂
I’d say that’s a good sign of a great weekend 🙂
We were doing a salsa course (2x3h), which was intense and a lot of fun!
Salsa-music just gives me the feeling of being on holiday! 🙂

on top of that we were in Lucerne to the Blueballs Festival where Ed Sheeran and Nina Nesbitt played
and as if that wasn’t enough we went to Salem (Germany, near Bodensee/Lake Constance) to watch Milow and Imany (Nadia Mladjao)!
Ed Sheeran and Milow were fantastic main acts and Imany surprised me with an awesome voice and performance!

All in all it was a really busy weekend but I’d do it again immediately!
Music and dancing make life so much more enjoyable!
So please put on some great music and move your body 🙂

Another awesome openair-festival, which was in St. Gallen from Thursday till tonight, was giving me happy moments and great memories!

Highlights for me were:
Flogging Molly
Ellie Goulding
The Black Keys
Dubioza Kolektiv
Skindred
Min King
Reignwolf
Thees Uhlmann & Band
Imagine Dragon

We were lucky with the weather, only today it rained the whole time except for when the last band Imagine Dragon played “on the top of the world” the sun came out and gave a special moment an even more special note 🙂
The food at the Festival was great, I got to taste Ben and Jerry’s “Fairly Nuts” and “Peanut Butter Cup” which were yummy, the first one more than the second. Furthermore I had my first “Stangenfondue” with Appenzeller-cheese, that’s a hot-dog-bread filled with cheese-fondue, I can really recommend it!
Also new for me was the Cashless-pay-system with an RFID-chip on the wristband. It’s quite handy not to get out the wallet all the time but I still don’t like the RFID-chip and what data they could collect. Moreover I think people return bottles and glasses more likely if they got the money back in cash.
On my way home westwards the sunset began and in the back-mirror I saw a wonderful rainbow.

It was an amazing weekend! I hope you had a great one too!

http://www.openairsg.ch/#intro

From Thursday till Sunday was the tenth Greenfield festival, for me the first one and it was amazing!
It was a new experience to have a LIDL (shoppingcentre) on the festival area and be able to buy almost everything you need fresh from the shop. The fireplaces were nice and we had our daily lunch-barbecue 🙂
Around 24’000 visitors were there and the weather went from sunshine to hail.. but with the right equipment we couldn’t be bothered.
The only sad thing was the way people threw their rubbish to the ground expecting someone would clean up later anyway..
The music was great, my personal favorites were Dropkick Murphys, Broilers, Sabaton, Iron Maiden, Clutch, Sepultura, Saltatio Mortis and Soundgarden.
Some of the music styles were new to me and I didn’t like everything, but I really enjoyed the time in Interlaken! Maybe next year again, we’ll see 🙂

http://greenfieldfestival.ch

That was a pretty busy but wonderful weekend!
It started with a yummy fresh self caught grilled trout in Forellenhof Kienberg, continued with a walk along Sihl, then a visit to Seleger Moor, Medieval Festival in Weil am Rhein, Thermalbad & Spa Zürich and to the Circus Knie 😀 It almost felt like a whole week of holiday and all of it was just amazing!

Wedding-bug 🙂

just taking a selfie 😀

Frog in Seleger Moor

Bumblebee in Seleger Moor

Guardian of a heavenly place 🙂

Yesterday I went to “Fricktal”, which I sometimes call “freaktal”, because it’s where some freaks come from. 😉

Very good Kirsch (cherry-schnaps) comes from that area and now the cherry trees are so beautiful! Of course there are also yummy cherry jam, cherry flans or just raw cherries. 🙂

We’ve set the clocks to daylight saving time one week ago, so sunset is now around 8pm and April comes with its normal mixed weather 😀

My old friend Starchi came running when I called for him 🙂

Forget-me-not

Today I went for a little Aussie-shopping after work 🙂 yummy things indeed!

It’s wonderful sunny weather and around 20°C! Great for a little lunch at Sihl, which is a river in Zürich that joins into Limmat, the largest river in Zürich. The name “Sihl” stems from the Celtic and means “strength”

The sun sets around 6:15pm and I’ve enjoyed sunset from my hammock on the balcony almost every day this week 🙂
And as the weather forecast says it’ll be 5°C and rainy on Sunday.. weird.. 😉

Yesterday was a wonderful day with my best friend! We went to Geneva to have a look at the car-show “Autosalon” and take a stroll at the lake afterwards. The weather was fantastic (around 14°C) and it starts to feel like spring. 🙂
On top of that was the long drive a real pleasure, it reminded me so of my days driving long distances with Troop.
Mentioning him, he’ll be for sale in May somewhere on Australias west-coast, I hope he’ll find a good new owner.

The following three cars were my favorites on the show:

The TOYOTA FV2 enhances the driving experience by connecting physically and emotionally with the driver.

BRABUS B63S-700 6×6 (based on the Mercedes G63 AMG 6×6 )

Lamborghini Huracán

The “Jet d’Eau” is one of the largest fountains in the world. Five hundred litres of water per second are jetted to an altitude of 140 metres. The water leaves the nozzle at a speed of 200 km/h. When it is in operation, at any given moment there are about 7,000 litres of water in the air. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_d%27Eau 11.3.2014)

Swan

I’m spending December enjoying Christmastime here, it’s so much more enjoyable after a year of Christmas in Summer 🙂
(I still prefer the summer but why not enjoy what’s here?)
There are still the same lovely Christmas markets with shiny decorated trees and stalls, the smell of mulled wine, gingerbread and raclette.
It’s fascinating to watch stressed people being worried and then smiling after seeing something beautiful or tasting something yummy.

During my holiday I spent two evenings of Wine degustation comparing Swiss and foreign wines and enjoying delicious food our host made for us! Once more I’ve realized, that we have amazing Swiss wines here but I still prefer a good Aussie one. 🙂  😉

Anyway, I wish you all a wonderful and peaceful Christmas
And thank you mum for that awesome advent calendar!

Swarovski Tree in Zürich Trainstation

Ice skating-place and Christmastree in front of KKL in Lucerne

Snow – what a lovely B’day present after I’ve missed last winter here 🙂

Coca-Cola Christmastruck in Singen Germany, was definitely worth the view! (how mad would it be to drive that beauty…!!)
Thanks Bro for a great evening!

Because it got cold I’ve even built a house for me! .. a bit small to live in it.. 😉

weatherstone

some sunrays for you

I even came across Eastern-Bunny! (the bell has a “Lindt”-print on it)

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