… which turned out to be very warm! Last sunday, the needle rose as high as 12C, and that in the middle of January! So, I took the opportunity to take a walk through Lausanne, stopping at some nice vantage points to take pictures. Check out my picture page to see some nice panoramas of Lake Geneva (ou Lac Léman en français)!
Otherwise, things are rather quite around here. January is almost over, with an even quieter February looming up. For the time being I am getting my kicks by folliwng the American Presidential candidate nomination process. Don’t worry, I am not going to turn this into a political blog. There are a lot of smart people out there commenting and analyzing the race, with my rudimentary knowledge I wouldn’t be really adding anything to it. The only thing I wanna mention here is this amazing web page called The Green Papers, which gives not only clever and interesting comments, but also has all th etechnical information how the nomination process and later the actual election works. And while you are browsing around, check also their list of presidential hopefuls… There are some really crazy goofballs under them! If you are lucky, they might even have a webpage.. 🙂
While a lot of people are aware of the American election process, surely only Germans are following the election craziness in Hessen, if at all. Again, Iwill restrain from any deeper commenting/ranting (at least at this point), I will just say that I am hoping feverishly that this election kicks Koch out of power! He is one of those yucky arrogant bastards who always conjurer up an evil, evil foreigner to get themselves elected. The political landscape will be a better with him out of power, and right now it looks as if there is a real chance for voting him out of office! So, all you guys living in Hessen, don’t forget to cast you vote next Sunday! I am counting on you!
I should also mention that Hamburg is electing a new Senat in February. And as always, there is this uneasy feeling that really doesn’t matter who is elected mayor, since the main two parties, CDU and SPD, don’t differ so much in Hamburg; somehow the party in power ends up being pro business and pro millionaires. And the water keeps flowing down the Elbe….
Ok, so much for today. Before you close your browser, check out the Oscar nominations! I for my part have seen almost none of the movies, because most of them haven’t been released in Europe yet! Bummer!