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Some interesting differences between English and Swiss culture.

Breakfast

Airport signs

Maybe other terminals of Heathrow look different, but for the average traveller a sign that shows the direction to the nearest tube station would be helpful. On the other hand, the Swiss Airport has almost too many signs.

Coca Cola bottle

Why do English Coca Cola bottles have an indication how to open the bottle? Is this not obvious enough?

Crosswalk

The pictures of the Coca Cola bottle and the crosswalk could give the impression that English people like instructions. Or did they think of the tourists, when they introduced such detailed instructions?



Inspired by the graphics Germany vs. China by Yang Liu

Recently I was playing around with my camera phone, and I made some interesting experimental photos. I turned off the flash, and focused a light-source. Then i pressed the trigger of the camera and tilted the camera randomly.
For longer time exposure, I selected the "Twighlight landscape"-option from the scenes-menu.

Some of my favourite shots:




See the whole set at flickr.

A LP of Hip-Hop-artists Pharcyde costs more than $2000 on Amazon.de. Exactly 1.820,99 Euros, that is about $2700.
The LP was made in 2007, so I can see no reason, why it should cost so much, unless Amazon has a calculation-bug in their software.



Fortunately the shipping is free of charge.

You can find a bigger screenshot of the full product here:

This weekend there was a City Rail Contest near my home, in the middle of town. It wasn't snowing, but snow was needed for the snowboards and skis. So the snow was transported by a truck.



It's a little crazy to transport snow into a town and to pour it on the sidewalk, but fortunately they didn't need to carry it a long way, because some kilometers outside of Zug there was plenty of snow.

The next day, the rails were ready to be grinded.



Yeah!

The whole thing was organized by a freeride shop called Welcome

In October I rode around the lake of Zug (Zugersee) with my Garmin GPS Device and my Sony Ericsson K800i Camera.

You can see in detail which way I rode and where I took the photos on this Google Map. If you want, you can check out the same Map in Google Earth.

To check out only the photos, there are two ways:
Flickr - I added some titles and descriptions.
Picasa Web Albums

My most favourite Photos are (more information is provided in the description on the photo page):



If you want details about how I put the pictures on the map go to my Geotagging Tutorial.