afterhours circle: Back to Switzerland

Time flew by again (or maybe I got sucked up in a temporal vortex) and somehow 2 months just happened in a blink of an eye...
To summarize, we moved to Atlanta (check), everyone survived (check) and life there was nice but here I am again in Switzerland for an undisclosed amount of time. O.o (or maybe I actually got sucked up in spatio-temporal vortex - go figure..)
Anyhow, life goes on and in the latest news Dee and I finished a short story (yay!) that is going to be printed in an anthology very soon and the whole product will kick some serious ass as some serious kick-ass artists are taking part in it! :D We shall definitely post more about it very soon.

On the other hand, I have been busy with various other non-artistic stuff but got to tour Switzerland for a couple of days with a visiting friend and suddenly re-discovered how beautiful this country is! (gasp!!)
So here are some pics to make you envious ;P
To begin with, this is the room where Einstein honed his theory of relativity

which is situated in the heart of the old town of Bern, the capital of Switzerland:

From there we went to the magical mountain village/town of Grindelwald where we took a train to the Top of Europe (and no, I'm not joking!) - Jungfrau joch.

It is unfortunate that it is quite impossible to capture the beauty of the morning light in the mountains on camera in a realistic way - it looks as if paths of light steam down from the sky to the Earth, carrying mountain fairies and wind spirits in them and when you breathe it smells of life and freshness..

The view on the biggest European mountain glacier from the "Sphinx" - the high platform on the Jungfrau side was stunning - the sky was clean indigo and the immaculate snow shone with a myriad of diamond sparks - a view it is impossible to get tired of..

What is really wonderful in a mountain country is that in a matter of an hour you can go from summer to winter. From Grindelwald we traveled to Interlaken - a town between 2 lakes where we did some paragliding in the sunset... which made me miss Switzerland very cruelly ^^;

The second day we spent in Montreux - a beautiful riviera town on the Leman lake with its famous Chillion castle that inspired many artists and writers.