Bettmeralp – The Better Alp

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We’ve arrived at our Holiday destination, Bettmeralp. Their slogan is aptly chosen: The Better Alp. We’re staying at a brand new apartment which we share it with long time friends. In the adjacent apartment another long time friend couple is staying. The photo shows the view from our south-east facing balconies.

I’ve brought my new Eee Asus Netbook to keep my readers informed and have already teased some twitter followers that I’m blogging in luxury and have started training sipping some beer for the anticipated UK – NL beer contest in Berlin half March during a travel blogger get together at ITB Berlin..

Strassbourg

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During our journey to the Swiss Alps we’ve visited Strassbourg shortly “zum bummln” which is German for doing some shopping.
Usually we tend to race along without paying any attention to this French city bordering on the river Rhine which forms the border between France and Germany.
Its center is well preserved. My first photo shows the cathedral with its characteristic unfinished one spire tower. Apparently the canals are used for cooling some local industries, as they are not frozen and the swans can peacefully use them.

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The second photo shows some of its ancient housing with an almost full moon.

For these posts I’m working on a new eee Asus netbook. First I tried to resize my photos with Irfanview, but that shareware programm crashed time after time. Now I’ve done the resizing with an ACDsee trial version. Not sure whether the photos are sharp enough as my working screen is only 9 inch….

Along the Road

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We’re on our annual Holiday. We left freezing cold The Netherlands for the Swiss Alps.
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Along the road we passed some areas where the fog had been frozen onto the trees. An amazing view.

My First Five Twitter Followers

Twitter is fantastic, but soooo slow!

I’m not sure, but I assume the sequence of Twitter is right. I’ve developed a very slow way (more or less) to quickly scan my Twitter followers (from bottom to top): It does take a little bit of copying and pasting, but the result is nice: You get a faster loading page than the actual page on Twitter Twitter | People Who Follow HappyHotelier:

No Avatar Twitter ID Site
5 wilhelmus William Bakker
4 globetrotteri Carrie Marshall
3 stephenjoyce Stephen A. Joyce
2 roadup Jim Stanger
1 travelrants Darren Cronian

These people are my first five Twitter followers.

Three of this Five I’ve met IRL (In Real Life).  And I like them! …Like I said: “Twitter is fantastic”