Yearly Archives: 2008

Catching Up… Switzerland in September

Waaay back in September – Sep 19-21 to be exact – Laura and I left work early on a Friday afternoon to take a train into Switzerland.  A friend of ours from college, Justin, had been living in Neuchatel, Switzerland as part of a temporary work assignment and invited us to join him for some …

September 22, 2008 – 6:03 am | By erik | Posted in Travel | Comments (0)

Weekend Trip to Paris

After a few stressful weeks at work and some weekends of bad weather and bad luck (including my bike getting stolen) in Düsseldorf, Laura and I were ready to do some traveling again.  We spent the last weekend (Aug 8-10) in Paris and had a wonderful time.  The weekend began early on Friday morning, with …

August 15, 2008 – 5:31 am | By erik | Posted in Travel | Comments (0)

Back from a trip to Amsterdam, Rotterdam, etc (The Netherlands)

We picked up our rental car Friday night, as well as a new bike rack, and by 10am on Saturday morning, were on our way to The Netherlands. Düsseldorf is approximately 91 km from the Germany/Netherlands border and a trip to Amsterdam – the first stop of the weekend – is less than two and …

May 14, 2008 – 2:24 am | By erik | Posted in Travel | Comments (0)

Pushing buttons

I’ve spent the past few weeks since arriving here in Germany playing with my new favorite toy – my Nikon D40 DSLR camera.  It’s been almost ten years since I played with a camera with more than a push-button point-and-shoot mode.  The advent of cheap consumer level cameras with the types of advance features and …

April 19, 2008 – 6:15 am | By erik | Posted in Featured, Travel | Comments (0)

Working finally…

Well, I finally started work this week after a full month (actually 5 weeks) of waiting for my work permit to be approved by the Düsseldorf City office.  I'm working as an 'environmental manager' at the Corporate Center.  I really had no idea what all that entailed until showing up for work on Thursday.  I'm …

April 19, 2008 – 5:49 am | By erik | Posted in Travel | Comments (0)