Comments on: Durbin II Diary – Part 5: Arrivederci, Geneva

By: Ken O'Banion

Ken O'Banion — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:42:47 +0000

When I was in Geneva — Lord, has it been twenty-five years already? — I thought it was an absolutely beautiful city, with some of the most unabashedly friendly people I met in all of my travels through Europe. I couldn’t afford the better restaurants, but the locals made sure I tracked down some really good food. (The two are not necessarily synonymous.)

Then again, it was the Reagan years, Dallas was extremely popular across the Continent, and I had the appallingly bad taste to wear a cowboy hat.

(Dusseldorf was more fun, though; I had a finger-gunfight with a railway worker across platforms at the Bahnhof; he drew down first, so I obligingly “died” for him.)

By: yehiel

yehiel — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:42:40 +0000

See the movie “Bread for Chocolate” to learn about the Swiss. Hell,
the sell you cheese with holes, and charge you for the holes.

By: SukieTawdry

SukieTawdry — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:56:33 +0000

I find it curiously amusing and ironically fitting that Ahmadinenutjob should be the one to shut this abomination down. Loved the video of the delegates walking out en masse; the only shame is that they were there in the first place.

Have a good trip home, Roger. Well done. If nothing else, you got a good meal out of it.

By: swissgerman

swissgerman — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:35:14 +0000

swiss german is harsh on the ears, no?

By: Oldo - Århus, Denmark

Oldo - Århus, Denmark — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:30:57 +0000

#3. john lynch:
Best transliteration was in local (the cartoon famous) Jyllands Posten:
Turban II (courtesy of JP’s blogger, our local Roger, Mikael Jalving). Do I feel stiffening of our EUropean spine? Certainly here in Denmark, yes!

By: Minerva

Minerva — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:15:18 +0000

I was always happiest in the part of the country where Italian is spoken.

By: The Rosett Report » Notes from Le Palais

The Rosett Report » Notes from Le Palais — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:45:42 +0000

[...] look at what brought us here:

By: Lee Merrick

Lee Merrick — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:42:07 +0000

Geneva was the most boring European city I have visited. Tick-tock, tick-tock.

By: john lynch

john lynch — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:28:45 +0000

Is it Durbin or Durban?

By: Fen

Fen — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:23:42 +0000

Beautifully written. And spot on.