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Saturday Nov 17, 2018 #
5 PM
Swimming 38:00 [2] 1.0 km (38:00 / km)
Normally, after a long flight, I get out for a not very convincing run. That wasn't an option this time, so instead I went for a not very convincing swim. Probably a bit less crowded than it is at weekday lunchtimes, but I felt like I was floundering like a drunken octopus. Felt as if I was about to cramp several times (mostly in the right leg, not the left), but never quite did.
Inflation is not a feature of Switzerland: the cost of pool entry was 6 francs when I first starting coming here eight years ago, and it still is. (There's inflation if you're an Australian, though - the franc has gone up about 30% against the dollar in that time). Showing that certain types of people have as much contempt for the law in law-abiding Geneva as they do in other places, I saw using a bus/taxi lane a very expensive black car which was definitely not a bus and, unless it was very well disguised, wasn't a taxi either. (No, it didn't have diplomatic plates).
The flight was as routine as they get, and slept a bit on the first leg. Perhaps a positive sign for peace in the Middle East is that Iraq is now considered safe enough to fly over (we went more or less over the top of Baghdad).
Inflation is not a feature of Switzerland: the cost of pool entry was 6 francs when I first starting coming here eight years ago, and it still is. (There's inflation if you're an Australian, though - the franc has gone up about 30% against the dollar in that time). Showing that certain types of people have as much contempt for the law in law-abiding Geneva as they do in other places, I saw using a bus/taxi lane a very expensive black car which was definitely not a bus and, unless it was very well disguised, wasn't a taxi either. (No, it didn't have diplomatic plates).
The flight was as routine as they get, and slept a bit on the first leg. Perhaps a positive sign for peace in the Middle East is that Iraq is now considered safe enough to fly over (we went more or less over the top of Baghdad).