June 2008

The summer has arrived, what a hot month June was. We spent most of the month at home but had quite a few visitors in that time. Alexandra came over to sew with Michelle, her cats hat partially destroyed her  curtains. We have bought the wii fit game and been having lots laughs at our attempts of yoga, hoola hooping and other fun games. Not really that taxing but lots of fun. Priska came over for a fun WII evening, there was lots of laughing during the boxing match.  Olav came over for a BBQ, we are certainly using the balcony a lot with this great weather. We have discovered a new micro brewery in Langnau, it is in an old factory complex combined with indoor mini golf, bowling, cocktail bars  and an ice-cream parlar.  We had fun on the mini golf, mmm maybe next time we should play before drinking the beer. June is the month of the Le Mans 24 hour race. It has become tradition to try stay awake for most of it. Duncan did really well but Michelle gave up at about 2am. She said she was going to nap for an hour, but didn't resurface until 5 hours later. As usual we each picked one car in the four different categories. Poor Duncan though his cars kept on crashing or blowing up.  The last Monday in June is a bank holiday in Burgdorf, Michelle had the day off, but Duncan had to work. Michelle did a long motorbike tour with Rüdi and Silvia. The tour went through the Jura region down as far as Yverdon before returning home.  The weather was ok, it kept on threatening to rain but never did.  After 300 km on one day she was pleased to stop.

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May 2008

The end of the skiing season and not really weather for Motor biking. May is a month where we normally catch up on all the chores that get behind in winter.  The highlight of this month was our trip to Vienna. We stayed with Sonia, Kim was visiting from Denmark this weekend too. We had a great evening in a really nice beer garden and lazy morning brunch. We went for a Spencer Tunick photo shooting, the idea was 2008 people in the football stadium where the Euro 2008 final was to be played this coming June. We didn't quite make the number though about 1840 people turned up. It was a pretty amazing atmosphere, with people of all ages and Nationalities taking part. It took a long time and as we were in the shade we left after about 4 hours. We met a lady from Zürich on the night train home, she said it went on for at least another 2 hours, and even she left before it was finished. The Photos are really artistic.  On the 30th of May we went to the Paul Klee Museum in Bern to see the exhibition of the photo shooting on the Aletsch Glacier last  year in which Duncan took part. He received photo signed by the artist. Spence Tunick was a very interesting person, although there were many people there he took time to talk to most people.

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