I’ve returned from my intensive week of
ceremonies, back in London but quite exhausted from moving around so much.
Though I’m disappointed to have been in the US during all of the
post-Ireland-referendum-panic last week, perhaps it was for the best. After all,
it was good to get away and get a little perspective during the very heated
debate that’s been taking place.
But this I can report: as with most EU
matters, no one in the US is even vaguely aware of what’s going on with the
Ireland referendum or with the Lisbon reform treaty in general, as it has
received basically zero media coverage. As they were largely not paying
attention to its formation, Americans would most likely not be closely watching
the EU’s disintegration either.
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Rebirth in Lisbon
When in During a visit I made to the city last weekend, these two pivotal turning points constantly came up. They were both times of regeneration, of a culture and a city redefining itself after a dramatic upheaval. And they both speak to the remarkable ability for societies to recover and rebuild.
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Skiing in Tyrol
Last week I went on a ski trip to the Austrian Alps. Yes I know, I feel as if I’ve been on a bit of Alps overload over the past year. I’ve now driven through them in four different countries and just the previous weekend I had taken a train through the Goddard Pass to Venice. This was supposed to be the year of Southern Europe!
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Venezia
This
weekend, for Easter, I hopped a flight over to my family’s house in
Zurich and we took a train south across the Alps to Venice. Everyone in
Europe gets Good Friday and Easter Monday off so I thought I’d take
advantage. Having heard that there was going to be a snowstorm all
weekend in Switzerland, we decided to try to get away somewhere
marginally warmer. It’s always amazing the difference in temperature
after you cross the Alps. It’s really a beautiful train ride, we’ve
driven across the Alps before but the train ride was actually more
scenic I thought. The St. Goddard pass is really just a fascinating
route. And the fresh snowfall made for a scenic journey.
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