Mountains

Besides chocolat, clocks and order, Switzerland is of course also well known for its mountains. Last few weekends I have been lucky enough to finally do some hiking. Good thing of Lausanne is that it is strategically located in between the rough and high Alps and the more roling and moderately high Jura mountains.
For some reason, the Swiss don't consider a mountain finished until they've built a train on it. As a happy result, I can easily reach some of the most beautiful hikes in about an hour. Needless to say I've now discovered that, and I'm intensively taking the opportunity.

So far I've been in the Alps once (4 hrs, 1400 >> 2000 meters):And in the Jura twice. Once for a hike close to the French border (5 hours, 1000 >> 1100 meters (easy)):
And last weekend for a heavy one up a large canyon (6 hours, 800 >> 1400 meters):
Good weekens spent with the hiking mates from former french-class!

Alice

Alice? Alice? Who the f*ck is Alice?


Alice is actually A Large Ion Collider Experiment (so far for cool abbreviations...) and is one of the humongous experimental installations at CERN. CERN in turn is the large particle accelerator near Geneva, which is located in an underground circle with a circumference of 27 kilometer!

A few weeks ago I was in the lucky opportunity to visit the Alice experiment. I'm not going into any details behind the science; mainly because I have no clue what it's actually doing. I can tell you though that looking down at the machine 50 meter down the ground was very impressive. Here some extra pictures for you to get an impression: