
After ditching my bags at the station, I met Catherine and Clare and we walked around Zurich. But really there isn’t a lot to do there sight-seeing wise. It’s a great place to party and shop (which is in itself an attraction for some). I ended up back at the Chinese gardens, open this time, and had a walk around. It’s quite small actually but nice, and they claim it has some significance.
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Finding the Pest in Budapest »« Rhine Falls, Zürich, Switzerland

Right now, Greenpeace ship ‘Esperanza’ is currently chasing ‘Nishin Maru’, one of the Japanese whaling ships, and will attempt non-violent methods to stop or interrupt their hunt. They played this message in English and Japanese to the group of ships when they found them, taken from SMH
“Your so-called scientific whaling is a hoax and has been dismissed as useless by the International Whaling Commission. Modern scientific research on whales does not require killing them,” the message said.
The ships dispersed and fled with Esperanza in pursuit.
Theres a lot of news, reports, jokes, commercials, and YouTube videos going around causing a fuss on both sides.
Here’s a quick round up of WTF is going on, some clips, and points from both sides.
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Russian Winter Festival, London »« Bumblebee
The cherry blossoms were in bloom even earlier this year, with the blame squarly on Global warming screwing things up. But as usual everything came and went within a 2 week period! The peak of Sakura sees Yoyogi Park filling with people for Hanami (aka “gettin’ smashed under the trees”).
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