Does skying too much drive people crazy?

Visiting the children of Yvoire....

I've always been told about these stories of visiting poor african countries and being cheered by children there, like they run after you in the street, they wanna take pictures with you and stuff... they want to touch you, get any object you own etc etc...

Well the strangest thing happened to us today. Basically we were adopted by the children of Yvoire, a rich small French town on the shores of Lake Geneva. We get in the village and all these kids start running around us, they take pictures of us, they touch us (well especially Alice), they want our contact info etc...

Now that I think about it, maybe they were just from africa themselves? Hum not sure really what the deal was, but that was fuuuun.... Well, if you want to send money or food to the children of Yvoire, we started a Non Profit Organization called ZeChildrenOfYvoire.org! Look how cute they are...

And Yvoire? Uh, yeah, nice....

Karaoke is definitely coool.......

La Bretagne ca vous gagne...

The week-end is amazing sky-wise, and we get the visit from Alice's cousin Mael, from Bretagne... a real Breton, not like the wanabee's from Paris...! Amazingly, these Bretons ski quite well.


The day is great, and we spend again 2 hours in this amazing French restaurant La Cremaillere, and get very close to get stuck on the French side again, as we catch the last seat back to the (dark) Swiss side.... Ouf, almost another costly taxi ride!

Finally, back on the slopes !!

Yeeeeeehaaaaaa ! Finally the snow is back and we're again in Champery for a beautiful day!

We stop at the grocery store in Aigle and meeting some very strange people there...

There's even a goat in the store! We stop and ask her what's the best goat cheese sold in the store. She looks at us smiling, does not say a word... Did I say something bad? Oh well, we decide to proceed and go with some yogourts instead...

After skying and relaxing at the Lavey baths, a little fire + good seafood and that's a good day of chomage that just ends nicely :)

Culture, sport and music, what a busy day!

Ok, it's been a while since we haven't done anything cultural.
Geneva is the perfect place to visit non-governmental organizations, then let's go to la Croix-Rouge Museum and see what this is all about...

Uh, interesting statues at the entrance : they're supposed to represent humiliated prisonners whom hands and feet have been cut off, but somehow, one of them seems to be different... well, not so much on the humiliation aspect, but he seems pretty decontracted and free-minded for a prisonner...


Ok, after culture, let's do some sport ! Cleaning up the snow from the driveway, how fun !! Ok, that's not the funniest sport game I've practiced, but it's a good way to get warm by -5°C !

And after sport, MUSIC !! Orishas, the best hip-hop/rap/salsa/funk music coming from Cuba, live in Lausanne at the Docks !

More on Orishas at http://www.orishasthebest.com/

La reine des chomeurs plébiscitée dans la presse !

What would be the best way to promote yourself when you're unemployed and bored in Geneva? Get an article in the most famous newspaper of Switzerland, of course: 20minutes.ch !!


Here is Alice giving her point of view about the Abbe Pierre's death. Well, not very inspired, uh.

Luckily the newspaper had enough pity to write "informaticienne" (=computer engineer) instead of "lazy bum" for my job, how nice :-)