this week the pictures i took underwater in sharm el sheik arrived. i will update the sharm-gallery with them soon.

the picture below is the best of the bunch and shows steffen, our guide during the early morning dive pointing out a huge anemone with a big bunch of clown-fishes on it.

the pic below shows splint hidden behind some flowers in the excellent restaurant we’ve been yesterday night.

the rest of the pictures of our christmasdiner can be found here.

i didn’t win that million this saturday, but it was a nice afternoon.

the picture below was taken at the shore of the lake of zurich, near the kongresshaus (oh, how would i love geotagged pictures, but that is a completely different story….).

i’ve not taken a single picture this week. because of this i’m nuzzling in my archive and found the pic below.

it was taken on my vacation in vienna this march. it’s the wall and a chair in a restaurant.

the picture of this week is especially for raph and dom from velocité which seem to be avid readers of my blog :-)

it shows a bunch of messengers at the veloblitz on saturday evening. the veloblitz was one of the first messengers that started in switzerland (among the first ones was the velokurier bern) and they had the fifteenth anniversary this weekend. from left to right you can see raphael feiss from velocite, stefan p. fröhlich from flash, randall from flash ans some other messenger. i truly apologize for the bad picture, but the batteries in my camera were so empty that was literally the only picture i took that evening.

the whole evening was really nice, after some terrific food (by lilys) the gals from the blitz prepared a funny alleycat. we from bern fibbed a bit (the alleycat was designed to be made on your own, you had to throw dices to get your next pickup/dropoff, but we wanted to stay together), but we had to, ’cause splint was filming the whole with his fancy helmet-cam. if i get some time (and his camera, firewirecable and all the other important stuff) i might make a nice movie out of his material which sometimes you might get to see here.

you should have seen us (urs, stefan, splint and me) on the trainride back to bern. four sweaty messengers staring into a 2″-screen of a mini-dv-cam and shouting “oh yes, that turn was so good” and “that was soo close!” and “i almost hit that car” while all the other passengers tried to sleep or read or minding their own business.

today i’ve been in the rope-park with nine (a belated birthday surprise for her).
that was quite an amazing and adrenalie-inducing afternoon.
but the most amazing thing was that nina is able to smile really charming before abseiling herself 15 meters down a tree.

from above

while abseiling

from below

ps: i know the picture lacks in the sharpness-departement, but i like it anyway…
ps2: more pics are on flickr
ps3: can you believe it’s only 7 weeks to go until ’05?

the threepieced thing in the picture below might look like something that could be documented by stickernation.net. but it shows the targot¹ with which higisuper* won the targot-game we played yesterday afternoon in the old town of bern.

¹explanation will follow later. the game was so amazing that it merits an own post. later.

this is sigi on the ridge leading from the weissfluhjoch to nowhere.

i had a very good time in davos (funny that urs was in davos, too), spent big time with reading, watching silly movies on the telly and talking to sigi.
thanks you sigi, that was very relaxing!

last tuesday i was in zürich to visit nina (and for a job-interview, which did turn out to be not that kind of phd i’d like to do).
this was the view over the limmat towards the technopark around half past six:

i spent the past weekend in italy with my family. we went to the region called barbaresco in the piemont in the northern part of italy. the region is well renowned for it’s viniculture so we spent quite some time at trying different wines (exept me, i don’t drink) and walking through different cities and villages in the region. it was really relaxing and really nice to spend a weekend with the extended family (nina, my girlfriend and björn, my sisters boyfriend came with us).

the picture below shows nina and nina (once my girlfriend and once my sister (from left to right)) in the church of alba. they are both examining the piece of art on display. it consists of 57 metal boxes filled with different pigments (some were spices and some mineral pigments). the smell was really tantalizing.
in the back you see my dad with the backpack. and if you look closely you can see god entering through the church door.

ps: since i will try to keep posting those pictures i’m gonna add the week number to the subject title. here’s a calendar you can subscribe with ical to see the week number in any ical-compatible calendar app.

this week nina received the pictures we made underwater in egypt.
both pictures below show a dugong we saw underwater, which was a truly amazing sight.
very, very impressive!

this picture was taken in abu hamra during our holidays at the red sea.
it’s some kind of huge can with a diameter of approximately 2m a hole in the middle.

this was the view after our first dive in the thunersee past friday evening.
can you believe how beautiful this is?

this was the view last saturday evening, just minutes after the storm sweeped over the gurten.

the gurtenfestival was very good. i’ll write more about that later (also why i didn’t see nena, iam and lunik), for now here’s a picture of nina and me, taken about 7 hours ago.
i love her!

this is the way the sky looks while driving from zürich to bern with the train:

(if you wouldn’t see the reflections, i’d say it’s one of the nicest pictures i ever took!)

today i went down the river aare with sigi and some friends.
the picture below is cölu, lukas and whatwashisname schrigy leading the pack of four boats, trying to catch those kayakers (i don’t think they went war kayaking, the didn’t look like that :-)
a pity the aare wasn’t so warm like it could be in late june. nonetheless i swam from the eichholz to the marzili because i didn’t want to walk down that approximately 2.5 km. not too bad for 15.7°, aight?