September 2010
13 posts
Weg mit der Scheiße!
“Weg mit der Scheiße” is the first colloquial German toast we learned at Oktoberfest, along with “Prost ihre säcke, prost du sack”. You can imagine our excitement to learn some foreign cheers to bring to Blacksburg and impress everybody back home, and our dismay at the translation of the latter. The first is just “Away with the shit” followed by a clink and a...
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Mike Lights - For The Win
I worked with this guy...
Monte Tamaro
After lunch yesterday we took a surprise trip to Monte Tamaro to see another Botta Church - the Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angeli. This one is a bit different than the one we saw in Mogno. It’s built on top of a mountain next to a strange amusement park that you can hike or take a gondola to, but can’t drive. It’s less contained as a whole, and very compelling from the...
Good and bruised
We took a two hour drive up the mountains today to see Mario Botta’s Church of San Giovanni Battista. It was pretty inspiring to see a modern church (finished in 1996) in a site that was leveled by an avalanche in 1986. Apparently some engineers figured out how to guide future avalanche’s down into another valley so they don’t have to worry too much now. Botta is slowly...
We Are Trees - Sunrise Sunset
Sweet band from...
Wiener Schnitzel
As promised, here’s the epilogue to my 10 days away from Riva…
Tuesday morning, we wake up in Stuttgart like pissed off zombies after staying up past 5am to watch the idiot Hokies lose to Kellen Moore. I was angry, but not as angry as I’d be if I was back in Blacksburg, or as angry as I’d be if we ended up losing the next game to...
Holy smokes!
I’m back from a ten day road trip north to France and Austria! It was my studio’s first major tour outside Switzerland, and after the first three and a half weeks of sightseeing close to our home in Riva-acquainting ourselves with the Italian language, the lakeside mountain vistas, and the pastel rainbow of houses and shudders-we got served… Served a hot steamy plate of Auxerre...
WatchYolanda be Cool & DCUP - We No Speak Americano. Chillin’ at the top of the european charts with this absurd song… Enjoy!