Saturday, October 11, 2008

It Begins...

A number of new things are beginning... Most noticeably, I'm attempting to get over my dislike of Blogs so I've decided to start this one and see if I can keep it going. It turns out this great company you might have heard of called "Google" runs a blogging site so naturally I had to host it there. You may have noticed it's called "Cheese!" which leads me to the other new thing happening...

You may or may not have heard, but I've decided to move to Zürich (thats in Switzerland for those of you playing at home). After a year in Dublin I'm ready for a change of weather and scenery so last week I began the transfer process to move to Google's other large engineering office in Europe. I've already received approval from my current and new manager so things are progressing up the chain. I've been to visit a few times now, working from the local office and I've really started to like it there. The people in the office have been great and they've even reserved a desk for me already, I really feel welcome there.

Zürich is a beautiful city, set along the banks of a long, narrow lake with lights twinkling up the hills either side at night. You can see the snow capped Alps in the distance in winter and everything in Europe is near by. It's this central location that I'm really looking forward to, which, when combined with the comprehensive (and of course always on time) Swiss transport system, will mean traveling around Europe will be much simpler. No more waiting in airports for hours, just jump on a train, enjoy the scenery for a while and arrive in a whole new country shortly after.

On my visits there, I've skated in 3 Monday Night Skates (and only hurt myself once...) where they close off the streets on a 20km route through the city centre and thousands of people come out and skate. It's a great way to see the city and is good exercise too. They skate very quickly, we averaged about 17km/h on my first run. I hear stories of day trips to the ski fields where I'm looking forwarding to perfecting my new found skiing abilities, and best of all the food there is much better than in Dublin. It's much fresher, has a wider variety and of course, there's plenty of Cheese!

10 comments:

stefan said...

Ha, now you'll have to come to karaoke from hell! :)

Also, welcome to Switzerland!

hamster_pilot said...

i am very jealous. please enjoy it as if you had all of h08 riding your coattails.. :) we're with u in spirit. and CHEESE! omigod.

Anonymous said...

Are there more chicks in Zurich?

Miki said...

Whoah hoa! Go Petey!! I think the question should be "Are there more 'willing' chicks in Zurich" hahaha. I am so coming to Zurich just for the skating and the "karaoke from Hell"! Sounds like my kinda city!

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