Around the world

So, here we are, the wine-country of mendoza. All the best argentinian wines come from her and of curse, we’re goin to taste as many as possible. We dedicated the first and second day to visiting the lovely city, watching euro08 games, eating and drinking fine and working on the usual web project. The last […]

For the French speaking people, the opening day of the “Las Lenas” ski resort was a live remake of the movie “Les bronzés font du ski”. That day was free for everybody so 14 buses of students from Mendoza showed up for this occasion with Mam and Dad outfits from the 70’s…sssoooo funny. Not to […]

San Raphael is the place where our friend from Steamboat Axel live the rest of the year and it is on the way to Las Leñas where we want to ski!!! and guess what! there is wineries around…founded by swiss people! we visited the “Suter” one. the difference between home and Argentina is that they […]

During the following 2 days in Bariloche the weather was really bad! rain and a lot of winds…so our days were composed of euro cup sessions and work!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCO !!! we had a delicious fondue (mmmmh) in a restaurant called “le chalet suisse”! the guys was originaly from Zurich!

With the swiss national team playing that day, we thought that we could visit a small village nearby called colonia suiza and watch the match with swiss people because this place has been founded by two swiss French family (the mermod and the goys) about 3 generations ago.What a bad idea! To get there, we […]

We are in well-know Bariloche. The place is wonderful, we could be in Lausanne and it would be the same! lake and mountains in front. They just took OUR St-Bernard dogs as they were from argentina….pfffff!

El bolson is settled in a really nice place, surrounded by high mountains, unfortunately it is raining so we don’t really get the chance to visit this place. Only the small local “feria”, with a few hippies standing behind their stands and selling their own marmalade or wristband in order to survive…you know what i […]

After the awesome days at el Chalten we decide to move a bit back north. Patagonia in winter is great but unfortunately in low (if not death) season and a lot of services are not available anymore. Our plan was to hit north on the Ruta 40 which winds trough the Andes up all the […]

well let’s do it again. An other trail but this time a close up to the cerro torre. I let you enjoy…

Really nice 4 hours trail with a closer view on the fitz roy summit. I would like to show you but (HUh huh) I forgot our camera…. I can say that it was damned freezing and that walking in the snow without high boots is…refreshing!

it was an “only” a 4 hours drive to el chalten (hihaaaa)! there was even a “pee stop” in the middle of nowhere. Just a “panaderia” that we seemed to wake up! For the explanation, the sun rise around 9.30 a.m here so everything you do around this time is really early for the locals. […]

One of the only stable (not getting smaller) glaciers in the world is the Perito Moreno glacier, that happens to be just an hour from where we lodge… (maybe that’s why we’re there…) The other really cool thing about this glacier is that it ends in a lake and it continuously calves (blocks of ice […]

Getting to Southern Patagonia is not really tricky, it just takes a fair amount of either time or money… you know what we have more no!? After the 18H from BA to Puerto Madryn we add 20 to Rio Gallego (for my Geography friends 52° S and just a couple of Hours from the Magellan […]

DIVE VIDEO___ Oh my god we were so excited! diving with sea lions, can you imagine that! It was luckily a beautiful day and it helped us putting our 2 x 6mm wet suit on, which -i translate- means that it was going to be damned cold. And it was…13 ° C! ouahhhhhhhhh ( that’s […]

After a 19 hours bus ride from BA, we are kind of tired (even though the bus are comfi it’s boring, very boring) but the weather is wonderful so we decided to have our late lunch on the beach. it was weird, we thought we were both hallucinating but finally after asking each other, it […]

One of my (and Sarah’s) dream trips has always been Patagonia… A remote place with beautiful rugged landscapes. We always hear from friends or fellow traveler that it’s an amazing place and we definitely should go once… well, our plan was to head to Mendoza and region after our awesome week in BA… BUT, 2 […]

After almost a year leaving in small places, it is now time for some days in a big city… Buenos Aires is the starting point of our South American trip. We arrive on a Friday morning in a fairly destroyed status since the plane had a personal entertainment console with dozens of movies, series, documentaries […]

So, after a month in Playa is time to move to Miami and visit our friends Mike and Elena. We met them in Curacao when they were having a vacation after flying their boss to his boat… yep they are jet pilots! very cool! CU

So, finally I’ve done it… After trying several times to take a Technical cave diving course and not being able to squeeze it into out plans, this time I managed to get in touch with Steve Bogaerds and organize the course over the last 3 days. Was really cool, and I learned a lot. Yesterday, […]

well, we were supposed to leave Switzerland for 6 months and here we are, still around after a full year and 4 more months to go!!! really cool… taratatataaaa I’m lovin’ it!

not to say that having a cockroach in your pant is really, really disgusting! Well, that’s the joy of going to the bathroom here in Mexico. ( note to myself: never ever experience that again)

Well, at the moment we are enjoying the sun of Playa del Carmen, kind of a second home in Mexico for me. Also, we are working a big webdesign project wich is taking up a lot of time, but it’s very interesting! Also, I’m (Marco) trying to organize a technical cave diving course… we’ll see […]

Like yin and yang, winter and summer, snow and sand come and go… And yes, after a loooong snooooowy winter, we are in mexico again! it’s awesome to feel nice and warm again! cheers Marco

Yep, today was the one and only spring day in our 2008… and we spent it in the beautiful city center of Denver!

STEAMBOAT POSTS RECORD BREAKING CHAMPAGNE POWDER® SNOW SEASON With more than 37 feet (11.5 m) of Champagne Powder® snow this winter, the Steamboat Ski Resort will finish the 2007/2008 season in record fashion, breaking its previous season snow record of 447.75 inches set in 1996/1997. And We ARE Here!!! c u soon with the upcoming […]

The BIG day… We move to winter!!!With all our diving gear we take the direct flight to Denver, Colorado where some, hopefully, good snow will be waiting for us.

Finally-we-made it do go diving a Cenote with el Dengue, an old friend from my IDC, I decide to take them to Tajma Ha and Chikin Ha, two cenotes that are not so famous among cavern divers but are definetly worthed the visit!!! we had 2 really good dives! and lot of fun!

Today there is finally wind in playa… So we hope Sarah might get to kitesurf a bit… “unfortunately”, wind means also that Mickey has to work with his kite students… so we just hang out on the beach and enjoy the sun… anyway we’ll be back!!!

Being a diver in Yucatan and not going to the Cenotes would be almost a capital sin so I took Sarah for some dives… first we drove to Tulum to go to Gran Cenote. After a great dive, we jumped in the car and after a quick check of Cenote Calavera we drove to Dos […]

So So, we’re getting close to our last stop of our awesome trip… Playa del Carmen. After a slow morning in merida we try to take a bus that does not exist and after some running around we are moving… the 4 hour trip is confortable (yes, mexican busses are definitly another class) and i’ve […]

LOOOOONG trip today… we first wanted to go to Belize city and then bus to Merida, but sitting at the dock after 2 days of rain and being only 30 min from “La isla bonita” (san pedro … remember the Madonna song?) made us change our plan… we went to san pedro spent couple of […]

oh, well… Caribbean doesn’t always mean sun… but being in Caye Caulker in a rainy day is a really relaxing thing… you basically don’t do anything!

We had signed up to dive the magical and famous Blue Hole (don’t worry, if you are not a diver, you won’t know it!). It was a 2 hour boat ride to get there, so I took my motion sickness pills. I was little anxious of the pills effect plus the deep dive and I […]

Let’s go to Belize! the day is a transit day to the Caye Caulker island. But I just wanted to add that for the first time being French and carrying a French pass is not sooo bad! Marco had to pay 25 $ to enter Belize! hihihi! And it was free for me..

The advertising was: ” Experience Tikal by sunrise” ..mhh.. appealing! We thought less people, good light to take picture, Let’s sign up! The mini bus picked us up at 3.45 a.m. As usual, I was really lucky to get in the bus at last. No more seat for me, so I had to sit somewhere […]

oh yeah!!! bus day, boring day! On the other side, the lodge we found was a good choice! It is in the mangrove and we have our own bungalow!!! The owner are swiss so they have Rösti on the menu…

For the ones who do not know Szonszo (Mattia Sansossio) well, he his one of my best friends BUT receiving an email from him is rarely related with pleasure… even less pleasure is derived by a mail labeled URGENTISSIMO (very very urgent). Lets give some background information: he is the guy that “runs” the youth […]

Seams like we are getting really lucky with the places we stays and eat lately. After a long trip we got back to Antigua and, not knowing where to go eat (remember, Antigua is a restaurants paradise) we decide to check out Panza Verde, astonishing place with a swiss (Lausannois) chef. Before going in we […]

“The place where the river goes under the earth”, that is what Semuc Champey means, pretty appropriate but IMHO the name should be “The beautiful place where the river goes under the earth”. It is a phenomenal karst bridge, the river eroded its way under the rocks forming a cave and on top of the […]

Short bumpy ride to Lanquin and again no doubles at el retiro, a really nice place along the rio Lanquin. We decide to visit the nearby caves around 5 pm so that we’ll be there when thousands of bats will flight out for some food. Really impressing, it’s crazy how many of them live in […]

we actually wanted to go to Nebaj and stay there but seen the weather we decided to keep on going and to go to Coban. 9 hours after leaving Xela we get to one of the prettiest house we have been. Unfortunately the have no double rooms and we take a dorm. The dinner is […]

So, finally in our inbox there could be a date for the embassy appointment… and there it is: all November is full then sometime in December… S*ç%)(+!T no good. Luckly around 10am THE GOOD NEWS is there: Dear applicants, you’ll be interviewed on the 19th Nov. 2007 at 13.00!!! YESSSSSS FINALLY!!! now, of course we […]

After some hot dipping we leave this beautiful place towards Xela for what is going to be maybe a travel day. As we get to Xela we have to go and check if we got all the infos from Steamboat in order to fix an appointement with the embassy… it almost happened… but only almost. […]

YESSSS! That was 4 am when we left the camp! We had to climb only less than one our to go to the top. We were finally feeling kind of warm again.(even if we had to stop every 10 min to wait for the turtles.. It was only 5 am when we both broke our […]