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October at a glance

Posted on November 18, 2012 by nekochan

Hey there Readers

We’re in the middle of November now but I have quite a lot of images I took during October and that I would like to share with you. October has been quite an eventful month with lots of yummy food, family and friends. I had my graduation ceremony, got a lot of pretty things, didn’t celebrate Halloween and already enjoyed snow!

View from the kitchen’s balcony

It’s hard to believe that the images above were taken in the same month, isn’t it? While at the beginning of October the weather was sunny and so warm that I felt the urge to go swimming, the second half was cold and brought the first snow of this year. I prefer snow over rain so I was happy about the snow-covered trees and roofs even if it lasted only for a few days. Many branches of trees though, broke because of the heavy snow on top of the autumn foliage.

The graduation dinner took place in a restaurant on the Uetliberg, a mountain from where you can see over the whole city of Zurich and even beyond. We had to walk for a few minutes through the snow-covered forest and I was only wearing my new, cream-colored cat flats without any socks…

nyahaha well I guess I learned my lesson but fortunately I didn’t get sick. It was strange and really nice at the same time seeing the people you’ve been together for the past two years at school in a totally different environment after some months. The beginning was a little stiff but after some wine it felt like we had never been apart.

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Tanabata Matsuri

Posted on July 12, 2012 by nekochan

Tanabata Matsuri

Hello fellow Bloggers & Readers

Today I would like to share the pictures I took at the Tanabata star festival on Saturday. When we arrived around 1pm there were plenty of people and everywhere families, couples and friends were having picnic. The atmosphere was just lovely and I enjoyed it so much! There were many activities such as making your own Taketombo (bamboo-copters), play Mizufuusen, a game where you have to fish for water balloons with a string made of paper.. and many more.

It was amazing how many people were actually wearing a Kimono or Yukata but the cutest were definitely the children! After our picnic we wanted to take a look at the exposition which was stunning but since there were so many people we didn’t take as much time to look at the prints as we would have liked to.. anyway, I’ll probably visit it an other time because it’s a magnificent collection!

She has such a cute style don’t you think?! love the shirt she’s wearing

I don’t know why the pics turned out so gloomy…

my Nikonchan is about to die. As I wrote in my previous post, the park of the Rietberg museum is huge. There were beautiful trees and flowers everywhere and even a small Bonsai collection and a little zen garden. I’ve been there when I was a child with my parents but I totally forgot about this place! I still can’t believe that this is the place where I’m going to study starting from September!

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Le Salon du Chocolat

Posted on April 1, 2012 by nekochan

Le Salon du Chocolat

Hello there!

Writing shorter but more frequent entries turns out to be more difficult than what I thought. Saturday I visited the Salon du Chocolat that is basically a trade fair for the international chocolate industry.

I’ve read about it on Miyuko’s page but I didn’t really had the intention of going. First of all I’m everything but a chocolate friend and second I’m not that into fairs. Not the most ideal conditions for a fair where everything is about chocolate..

Anyway, when I woke up on Saturday I felt like giving it a try and went.

It was still too early when I arrived there but there where already many people waiting to go inside. The air was filled with the sweet scent of chocolate and other sweets but since I had just eaten a roast beef sandwich there was no chocolate scent that could weaken me. That is, until I encountered the huge, chocolate covered strawberries…
As I wrote above, I’m not that into chocolate but when there are fruits involved, especially strawberries, chocolate can be quite extraordinarily delicious.

I still can’t eat too much of it though, since it makes me feel sick really fast.

The Salon du Chocolat took place in Paris for the first time in 1994, and has since branched out to 20 cities around the world. The Salon offers chocolate tastings and the possibility to watch chocolatiers at work. I felt a little like Charlie in the chocolate factory with all the diligently working chocolatiers around me.

Many of them were female, at least on that day, and I was quite impressed by their skills.

I couldn’t really believe this is chocolate but when she explained her technique it made sense.

Basically she doesn’t paint directly onto the chocolate’s surface but uses food color mixed with other ingredients to paint the inside of plastic molds in which she finally pours liquid chocolate.

I love Boissier’s violettes cristallisées! They’re sugar coated violets but they were sold out on the first day so I had to go with the rose petals.

What I also like about Boissier is that they use flowers and fruits to give chocolate an additional exciting flavour and colour.

It was very interesting and amusing seeing the effect of chocolate on people. I’ve never seen such a peaceful and harmonious bunch of people.

There were many Asians and people from the Romandy (the French-speaking part of Switzerland) and the atmosphere was all laid-back.
Although everyone was offering delicious looking chocolates and macarons on platters I wasn’t too eager to try all of them. It was too funny looking at the euphoric eyes of people when trying all the goodies!

I’ve never tried Ladurée’s macarons but I have to say that they really are as good as everyone says. I had one with sour cherries!

The dresses above are made of chocolate or have chocolate details on the fabric. On the opening evening there was a fashion show so some of the dresses were a little damaged but they looked fascinating nevertheless.