Taking advantage of time available I have gone to Dunedin.
Dropped in on Warwick at his bookshop
Took a picture of Petes part of town.
Then some ancient mosaic work
Then a bit of museum visiting. I have always loved the look of these.
And there was a bit more contemporary stuff there too
And eventually the rain came to mess with the great view from Steve and Lynns place
While travelling around in Europe I noticed the “Maker” culture and Tech shops.
In Amsterdam there was a 3D print business selling toothbrush holders.
And in Berlin a Maker Store http://www.maker-store.de that was sselling Arduinos and running training courses.
In Zurich I went and talked to the people at http://www.my3dworld.ch who had been in the 3D printing business for 3 years or so, printing, selling printers, training and prototyping for people.
They had aluminium and steel printing technology too.
It is interesting to see what larger populations allow.
Well made it back in not too much discomfort at all.
Aboard
It is 4:30 am at the moment though, so there are the odd difficulties to be addressed yet.
I need to get out and about and look around a bit. Then figure out what to do next.
Done the 5 hour leg, just the 16 hour one to go.
Morning view from the apartment, around to the right there were a couple soldiers, I guess keeping the local Synagogue safe.
Got on the Metro and headed towards town
And found some impressive building
Cool mall
And looking through windows
Then did what I bought us here for
And wandered home, passing street art along the way
The today train to Rome, with Crappy train Window photography of Tuscany
And now we are there
Yes really
Up this street
It pelted (?) Snow this morning
Some of them are seagulls not snowflakes.
Wintry by the lake
It did clear clear up though
As the title says, Jean Tingley made some great machines
These ones music makers
And others
This one commissioned by Renault, is like a Formula 1 explosion
The man himself a couple of decades ago
More music machinery
Then some streets of Basel on the way back
Well first a little snack
Then comes the snow
Off to dinner now.
Happy New Year!
In Zürich now, 2 nights so far.
I ran in the quarter marathon at Schlieren, my time was 1:10 or the like. Post due to fairly complete lack of regular running, but maybe aging too.
Hanspeter and Kathrin were faster than me, but I still managed to be the fastest (and only) runner from NZ.
Was trying to manage the cool that Sorin achieved in his Hawkes Bay Marathon pic, but failed I am afraid.
A bit of visiting to do yet, before heading to Milan.
Will look into photos to upload soon.
This below is a photo of snow cannon created snow Hanspeter took while flying his parapont.
More snow or lots more snow cannon is required here. According to the forecasters it should snow here in Zurich today.
We came here in an ICE from Amsterdam, pic below looking through the driver compartment when that was the back of the train.
Then later when it was the front. From Mannheim to Karlsruhe we were really slow, some vandals had burnt a signaling station down.
Sometimes up to 3 crew in there.
Then in Zurich tram to the place we are staying
We are in the pink place in the middle
New years eve went and had a look around town.
Found the Caberet Voltaire, which is for sale as a complete art work for CHF 13 Million. You get the whole 4 floor building in the Zurich Altstadt for that.
http://www.caberetvoltaire.ch/en/
http://www.caberetvoltaire.ch
We went to Christine parents for a very nice dinner last night, not particularly bright weather, but some great shades of mist for Oliver.
