The Hidden Fence

It has been over two months since I last wrote a blog post. The reason for this is not that I wouldn’t have any interesting subjects, but I was rather busy organizing the next big move in my life: next month I will be relocating to California. I hope that, once settled down, I get […]

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Over Christmas and New Year I flew back to Switzerland. It was really a good trip and I had the chance to meet almost all my friends. I spent seven days in the Alps in Rougemont near Gstaad and of course I went skiing.
When flying back to South Africa, I asked myself the question:
Am I […]

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Today’s 12 o’clock news made me think, I should write once more about the traffic. Let me start with today’s bad news: two people were killed and another 15 injured when a minibus taxi collided with a car. 21 workers were injured when their truck overturned. These are just the two worst accidents, many more […]

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Cycling is quite a popular sport here in South Africa. Since I already cycled in Switzerland and I had to do some sport here, as I have to drive by car everywhere, I decided to join a cycling club. The CycleLab SuperCycling Club is one of the best known cycling clubs in Johannesburg. For a […]

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No, I didn’t eat at McDonald’s today; since I have seen Super Size Me by Morgan Spurlock, I have never been to this fast food chain again. And there are plenty other fast food restaurants available in South Africa: for example ANAT, Fontana, KFC, Steers, Wimpy and of course many more.
This post is about […]

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Finally I had time to update my gallery to contain all my South African albums.
Have a look at the whole South Africa gallery (over 200 pictures) or at some of the highlights:

First Game Animals (mentioned in the previous post)
Kruger National Park (over 60 pictures)

Renault F1 Roadshow

I would also like to point out the map feature: […]

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I don’t want this blog to become a diary, but the story of the last weekend must be told. It could have been the nice story of my first sight of giraffe and warthog (almost) in the wild, but things turned differently…
The weather was not so good the last days and as I haven’t really […]

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Today it is exactly one month that I arrived in South Africa. My adventure began when my Swiss A340 landed on May 1 at about 9 AM at O.R. Tambo Johannesburg International Airport.
In the last 31 days I learned much about this city and its inhabitants, but I have not yet seen much of South […]

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As several people in Switzerland are worrying about what is happening around Jo’burg in the last days, I have decided to write about my thoughts. My understanding of the whole situation is based on discussions I had with colleagues at work and from what I heard on the radio and read on News24, the most […]

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Yes, it is quite obvious I was going to write about this theme. Security is really a big problem here in South Africa - specially in Johannesburg. Fortunately I haven’t been exposed to crime yet, but security measures are so high, you get remembered that it can happen to anyone anywhere at any time.
Where you […]

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