http://donn.dyndns.org/news.php Donn's current affairs http://donn.dyndns.org/affair_20090914 2009-09-15 Tour du Mont Blanc à vélo After a session of hasty planning and map printing, Jen and I headed off Wednesday evening for Chamonix. There we'd stay the night before starting the Tour du Mont Blanc by mountain bike. The Tour du Mont Blanc is normally a walking route taking between 10 and 12 days to complete. It is roughly 170 km and some 10,000m of climbing. By bike, however, the climbing is closer to 8000m due to slight differences in the route. There is some debate as to the pref... http://donn.dyndns.org/affair_20090914 http://donn.dyndns.org/affair_200908310917 2009-08-31 - Tomates Our tomatoes have been ripening since mid-August. Shown here are the latest pickings. The seeds for these came from Jen's Nono. Jen's mom sent them to us by mail. The plants themselves were pretty picky. They didn't fend off the powdery mildew as well as our storebought seeds did, and also had a mild case of blossom-end rot on the first few fruits. Another problem we noticed was the flowers would develop but then yellow off and die. I suspect many of these problems we... http://donn.dyndns.org/affair_200908310917 http://donn.dyndns.org/affair_200908102246 2009-08-10 - In the ferris wheel We took a ride in the big ferris wheel that has been installed near the old city. It was too dark to take interesting photos of Geneva, unfortunately. http://donn.dyndns.org/affair_200908102246 http://donn.dyndns.org/affair_200908091126 2009-08-09 - Le grand feu d'artifice Nous avons regardé le grand feu d'artifice depuis chez Marc et Christine hier soir. Chaque année, pour les Fêtes de Genève, il y a un grand feu d'artifice qui dur presque une heure et qui est synchronisé à la musique à la radio. À mon avis, les photos de feu d'artifice ne sont pas de tout intéressant, donc je vous laisse avec une de Marc, Jenevieve, et Christine. We watched the fireworks from Marc and Christine's apartment yesterday evening. ... http://donn.dyndns.org/affair_200908091126 http://donn.dyndns.org/affair_200908080231 2009-08-08 - Geneva from the Salève We watched the fireworks of the Fête nationale Suisse last weekend from atop le Salève (this was taken about an hour before they started). We then attempted to sleep in a grassy field without tents but were chased off of the mount at 4am by a rainy thunderstorm. http://donn.dyndns.org/affair_200908080231