Paris and Switzerland

A couple of weeks ago I was in Paris on a meeting in Arctic Materials talking a little about my work. Since I was down there anyway I descided to go and visit Anita in Geneva and Marianne and Andreas in Zurich. It was totally awsome to be back in Switzerland! If only for a very short while... I wanna go back more!!!

The reason I haven't been writing much on my blog lately is that I have a masterthesis I am supposed to write on instead. Apperently it's supposed to be more imporatant, and I now have 26 days left on it....

Total tower, Paris - where the meeting was. Cool building :)

Christer, me and Paris!

Next stop was at Anita in Geneva. She is doing her master on CERN, on a project called CLIC (Compact LInear Collider) (CERN likes fancy acronymes...) .

I have always imagined CERN to be really fancy and high tech, but seriously, the place is incredible ugly! This is Anita and Anitas lab building. And this style is the standard on the houses... It seems like all the money goes on research instead of fancy buildings... If you want to see som pictures from inside, check out Anitas blog, because I didn't get the chance to go down in the accelerater or anything unfortunatly.

I managed to get well planed and organized Anita to go with me on a unplaned impulive trip to Zurich :) We had an awsome train ride with picknic and view to the alps!

Good old beutiful Zurich seen from ETH.

Marianne, Andreas and me outside the church Grossmünster.

Back at Anitas place outside Geneva (actually in france), Anitas scottish flatmate made typical german food called Saumage (meaning pig stumack), wich actually was good! (I'm just glad he didn't make haggis..). A nice thing with visiting one of the geekiest places in both europe and usa (CERN & MIT) is that I get to compare which is more geeky :) Unfortunatly most people I met both places was more very nice and cool but just really smart than typically sterotypic geeky. I'm kind of disapointed! Where are all the wierd geeky people with thick glasses??