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Posted in Hanna, Katzen, Salt Lake City, Travel on Aug 10th, 2010
a.k.a. “Our cats up in the air: Salt Lake - Atlanta - Stuttgart”
Of course we wouldn’t leave our cats behind when moving to Europe. I have been following local ads on craigslist over the past two years and for many people in SLC, moving seems to be equivalent to abandoning pets. I got [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City, Travel, University on Jul 23rd, 2010
The title says it all. Soon, we’ll be starting a new chapter in life. After almost two years in Salt Lake City we will leave the US again (sooner than expected) and move back to good old Europe: Switzerland to be more precise. Our PI accepted a job offer at the University of Fribourg [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Travel, University on Jul 23rd, 2010
Well, our Maui trip kind of interfered with my Japan report. But now forget about tropical rainforest, beaches and volcanos and let your mind travel back to Japan. Back in March (”A long, long time ago, I can still remember…lalalalala”) we took the train from Hiroshima to the 16th Japan Flagella Meeting in Gamagori, a small place close [...]
Here’s a final Hawaii post. Unfortunately, our trip ended after 7 full days on Maui. You read plenty about the first five days, so to close this chapter I have a little something about day 6 and 7 for you. Even though we didn’t do very much at all. Well, we went Geocaching and [...]
Hi everybody, here are a couple of pictures from last night. We went to the ‘Old Lahaina Lu’au’ for some traditional Hula and some traditional food.
We were introduced to Ote’a (drum dance of Tahiti), Kahiko (ancient hula), ‘Auana (modern hula) and a lot more. And it was really amazing how fast those dancers could move. [...]
Day 4 was again reserved for another exciting trip. It was time to drive the road to Hana, famous for its waterfalls, its winding and narrow roads, stunning views, tropical rainforest, awesome beaches (one of it is famous Black Sand Beach) and more beauty one could possibly absorb in one day.
So we grabbed a lunch [...]
Our exciting day yesterday was followed by a more quiet and relaxing day today. Even though we got up at 8 am we stayed at our condo all morning. Our lanai was just too nice. We had our daily fruit plate and some banana bread for breakfast and I enjoyed spending some time with my [...]
An dem blauen Himmelszelt?
Weißt du, wieviel Wolken gehen
Weithin über alle Welt?
I remembered this children song when we went on our trip this morning. And by morning I mean morning-morning. As planned, we sat in the car by 3:01 am to head to Haleakala, the east Maui volcano at Haleakala National Park. Of course it was [...]
Aloha, it’s day one of our Hawaii trip. We had a quiet and comfortable flight yesterday but arrived long after dark on Maui. But that’s something that I really like - to arrive at a new place in the dark. That gives you the chance to get to know a new place by its smell [...]
It could be that this year is our lucky year or that we “just” have the right job. But it seems like the world is waiting for us and a lot of doors are open. After starting the year with a conference in Ventura, California, Kelly sent us to the “Japan Flagellar Meeting 2010″. That’s [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City, Travel on Nov 23rd, 2009
September 21st is not only my mum’s birthday, this year it was also the day my parents arrived in SLC. Their first time in the U.S. if you don’t count their visits to the U.S. Virgin Islands (the insular area is actually U.S. territory but not part of the U.S. states) or U.S. airports. I [...]
Another recent trip (besides New York and the shorter-than-expected Yellowstone weekend) was to San Diego. But this time not (only) for fun - no we actually went there for work!! Kelly sent us to visit a lab at the UCSD (University of California, San Diego). They are experts in microscopy and the right place to [...]
Wow, it has been such a looooooong time - but it’s summer and we finally got to do some stuff around here. So we’ve been pretty busy. I don’t even know where to start. Well, we finally made a dream come true and visited New York!!!!! Without really thinking about the consequences, Marc and I [...]
Our 2009 camping season has finally begun and I had checked the Zion campground just in time to get the last open spot. So Zion (one of Utah‘s beautiful national parks) was our destination last weekend. Marc, Soazig, and I rented a car and made a 5 hours road trip south to escape our [...]
Ban de Laveline, a little village in the French mountain range called Vosges, is one of my favorite places on earth. I always call it my second home and that’s really what it is. My family used to go there since I was very little and I grew up being there at least ones [...]