Photoblog Twan Sevriens - » Switzerland

Hike: Blüemlisalp

Twan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:39:33 +0000

Sunday went for a nice hike. Here some pano’s

Meeting: Baselphotoclub – Dornach Goetheanum

Twan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:08:17 +0000

I went to another meeting of the Baselphotoclub. This time we took the train to Dornach to have a look at the very impressive Goetheanum. There were some new/other people and some familiar faces, it stayed dry, we had to run for the train back and had a (or two) beer when we were back in Basel so I think a nice evening.

Meeting: Baselphotoclub

Twan — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:01:47 +0000

Last Friday I went to a meeting of the Baselphotoclub. I found this club through the englishforum.ch and thought it would be cool to get out a bit, and use my camera again. I think it was a cool meeting, we ended up walking around Basel a bit, especially around the Wettsteinbrücke and then some of us got thirsty and went for a beer. I added the pics to the gallery again! (but here also an impression)

Shocking news from Basel

Twan — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:42:34 +0000

Last night I woke up around 3.40 because my bed was shaking. Now is my bed not that stable so it does move when you turn around, but this felt a bit different. It couldn’t have been one of my housemates pulling a prank because they were not at home, so.. I thought.. it must have been an earthquake then and as I saw this morning I was right:
German original version: News item from SF
Translated version by Google Translate(to English) News item from SF

The earthquake originated in Germany and was noticable throughout Switzerland. Ok, off to work!

First run in Basel

Twan — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:49:21 +0000

Today I got back from work and thought, hey.. I really should start running again! Last time was more than a month ago (and still in Eindhoven). I had a look on Google maps but couldn’t really find something interesting so just jumped in my running outfit and started. To not get not too enthusiastic after such a while of doing nothing I thought 5km would be nice and knew which round would be this distance(give or take). The sun was shining, and there was a nice breeze so perfect weather.

This is the round I did: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2756295

Some details of Basel

Twan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:14:04 +0000

While enjoying the very nice weather here during the easter weekend I captured some (I’m sure there will be more) details of Basel. These are things that caught my attention while walking through the quiet streets of Basel.

See the gallery of Basel for the others

Sammelaktion für Sonderabfälle

Twan — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:07:12 +0000

So, it started yesterday evening, people here in the street where I live started to clean out there storage rooms in cellar and attic, finally could clean up their gardens from furniture that was rotting away and saw a reason to get rid of old computers, ski sets, beds, and actually everything you can’t really imagine. Wednesday the city will collect everything for free.

But it’s not only that people are putting stuff out! When I came back from work today, it was rather busy in my street, fully loaded vans with french number plates, complete families with backpacks and sofa’s with 6 legs were walking around, going through the rubbish that their neighbors had put out the night before (or during the day) to give stuff a second (or perhaps 3rd,4th or 5th life). I think I have never seen something like this, but I have to say it’s funny to see. The entrance to my flat was blocked, and had to lift my bicycle in order to reach the door. I really wonder if this stuff is going to be away tomorrow, anyway, have a look….

First week in Switzerland

Twan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:41:53 +0000

After one week in Switzerland, time for a little story about what happened I guess. Sorry that I haven’t been writing a bit earlier, but I have to say, moving, settling, working, etc etc makes you tired. Anyway, so I moved the last weekend of March, me and my father started driving around 12 at night and drove all night ( driving with a trailer goes sloooow ) to the swiss border where we had to get a stamp on some forms and permission to import my house hold goods.

After moving everything and taking it easy for some days I went to the city office in Basle to register. Then Wednesday was my first working day at CLS-Communication. I got a nice introduction and there were some meetings planned for me to get to know the organization a bit better and talk to the people that are involved in the project I will be working on in the next months. So getting to know the system, organization and people is basically what I did this week. I say basically, but moving here, starting at a new company with new people already causes a bit of an overload of new information and impressions which is noticable in the evening hours

To get an impression of how my room looked after moving in and unpacking some stuff..

Nice tulip in Winterthur + more in gallery

Twan — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:07:37 +0000

Last time when I was in Winterthur again, I only took my 50mm prime plastic fantastic Canon. It gives such great sharp pics! Look at this nice pink tulip which I found in the front garden of Christine.

I made some more pics, have a look at them by clicking the thumbs below!

Autumn in Switzerland

Twan — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:45:00 +0000

Last week I was in Switzerland again and we had the chance to go for a short walk. Beautiful colors because of Autumn.