This is the view looking out of the office in the Rolex building, just adjacent to mine (my office, not my building). Just to the left of the steeple you can see the Mont Blanc, on a clear day.
Author: kenritley
Les cépages d’Alsace
I, Robot
I talked to the fellow at the booth at the AI-for-Good conference in Geneva in July 2025. He assured me that this fellow did work – used to work – but no longer does.
Aare, revisited
Spectacular Bubble Architecture in Strasbourg – 8
I call it bubble architecture. But probably nobody else does.
I’ve said that France is the all time master at turning beautiful historical buildings into hideous monstrosities by encasing parts of them – or sometimes all of them – in giant glass bubbles. Well, they seem to be getting mildly better at this. But the famous Gare de Strasbourg — or main train station in Strasbourg — is in my view a case where the French got things right!
Windows on a building in Stuttgart-Vaihingin
Les champs de vignes d’Alsace
Wiesensteig Train Bridge
Continuing the series,
Les cépages d’Alsace
Wiesensteig Train Bridge
Continuing the series, I took this snap in the South German town of Wiesensteig. This is the new rail line that runs between Stuttgart and Ulm – which took around 47 years to build. It’s funny, because they say people in Bern move slowly!
Alsace
Wiesensteig Train Bridge
Continuing the series,
Dessinheim Sprinkler
As of July 2025 it seems all the cornfield in Alsace – everywhere – including in this little area called Dessinheim – are undergoing tremendous irrigation. Probably a side-effect of the European drought. Interestingly, Dessinheim is rather famous — historically — since a famous French combat pilot was shot down and killed here. I’ll post a snap to his memorial in a coming post.
Roadside Stork
I spotted this fellow just off the side of the road near Neuf-Briesach, probably looking for a warm juicy mouse or — failing that — at least a nice big bug.
Fachwerkhaus
eVTOL – or Octocopter
Another snap from the recent “AI for Good” conference in Geneva, and it’s actually almost small enough that it can fit in the Tesla Cybertruck!
Tesla Cybertruck
If you haven’t seen one close-up-and-personal, these things remind me a lot of a Hummer – they are a lot more huge and massive than they look on TV. I took this snap at the recent “AI for Good” conference in Geneva:
Police cruiser in Geneva
Or, because today is Catorze de Juillet and this snap was taken in Geneva, auto de police, which anyway continues the series,
Police cruiser in Zürich
Klappladenhalter
Even if you live in Europe you probably don’t know what they are called! In French, arrêt à loquet. In short, they hold the wooden window shutters open so the wind doesn’t cause them to smash closed.
Red thing in Stuttgart-Vaihingin
Sigmarigen
Sigmaringen is an interesting little town in the Linzgau area of Germany, just north of the Bodensee. I think this snap is a bit dark – and probably as my editing skills improve I will learn more about how to brighten it up!
Pfullendorf Portal
The value of stones in Linzgau
I took this snap just north of Pfullendorf, which is a small village in the area known as Linzgau, just north of the Bodensee.
Bridge in Sigmaringen
