St Gallen, Switzerland

Dr. Seyed Mohammad Khatami
Former President of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Fujio Cho
Chairman
Toyota Motor Corporation

Postcards from Switzerland

St Gallen

St Gallen Symposium Jazz dinner at OLMA Centre

Tonneholle - the Town Hall

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Rapperswil - the town of roses (Rosenstadt)

The Alps, Lake Zurich and the promenade

Wooden footbridge over Lake Zurich

The Swiss national flag, Lake Zurich, wooden footbridge and the Seedamm causeway as seen from RosenGarten (the rose gardens) near the castle

Two rainbows - When I saw the first rainbow, I mentioned how two rainbows had appeared at the same time while I was at Niagara. And lo and behold a second rainbow appeared !

I guess I should have wished for gold, diamond or something precious.

People feeding pigeons and ducks and swans

Clouds over The Alps

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Views from a train journey - St. Gallen to Appenzeller

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Zurich


Lake Zurich ( view from Swiss Re's office )


Observation Deck, Flughaffen Zurich


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The Countryside


The Road to Nowhere..







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Potpourri


A boy in a traditional swiss dress playing a santoor-like swiss musical instrument inside a 'cottage' cheese factory

Funny signs

Kiss and Ride - Do I need to be kissing someone to ride here?? In which case I would want to be with Cameroon Diaz while driving here.

I have been idle all these years... luckily there are no similar rules in India.

Believe me there was definitely no ATM inside this wooden structure :-)

"Do not put any person in this washer" - Just in case you thought that this was an easy way to have a bath...

Drink or Trink ; but it is 'Always Coca Cola'

The difference between ‘ready to blast’ and ‘all clear’ - one whistle

What is an ashtray doing in a no-smoking lavatory? If you think you have an answer, let me inform you that this lavatory was in an aeroplane which is supposed to be non-smoking entirely.

What are these digits?
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A high precision watch at the heart of Union Square, New York.

And these digits show the national debt of the US of A (office of the IRS - near Times Square, New York).

How do they know what I am thinking ??

With human beings cleaning dog waste manually, it sometimes make me wonder who is higher up in the evolutionary chain...

Found this on a G subway train at New York

This will be a strange name in India.
Ghamandi = 'Excessive Pride' in Hindi

Most signboards in Switzerland had a lot of people drawn in them ..... probably to denote that the negative effects could harm many people instead of just a few.

And so is this signboard at St. Gallen

There were a set of around 10 such signboards on an almost plain surface..... we laughed at these signboards for quite some time until I almost tripped and fell