Tag: Switzerland

Posted on

Solar Impulse: Interview with Bertrand Piccard

Bertrand Piccard

Solar Impulse is in the air, and has been flying for 12 hours gathering solar energy from its 12,000 solar panels affixed to its massive wings.

  Your humble correspondent had a few minutes with Bertrand Piccard, the lead of the Solar Impulse project and the first man to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. 

Here is my interview with Piccard, giving the latest. (as of 1800, 7June10.)

Continue reading “Solar Impulse: Interview with Bertrand Piccard”
Posted on

Southern Migration

If someone were to tell me at any point in my life that on June 4, 2010 I would have bought an ice cream cone for 3.50 sfr in Zurich, awaiting my work permit to allow me to accept a position as correspondent for Swiss Public Broadcasting…I would probably have laughed, smiled, and said, “I guess we shall see…but I doubt it.”

Except here I sit, in Zurich, and the taste of strawberry ice cream is still faintly, and expensively, on my lips.

Continue reading “Southern Migration”

Posted on

Geneva

Geneva
Geneva
Geneva
Streets of Geneva
Streets of Geneva
Swiss public broadcasting
Swiss public broadcasting
Lake Geneva
Lake Geneva
Geneva from afar.
Mountains overlook Geneva.
Mountains overlook Geneva.
Geneva at dusk.
Geneva at dusk.
A fountain in Geneva.
A fountain in Geneva.

No thanks

AnthonyGanzer.com