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Old 06-25-2009, 12:26 PM
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Default Greetings from Zurich, Switzerland

I'm here in Switzerland staying in an apartment of a friend. He is a scientist studying global warming
with a grant from the Swiss goverment. He's Italian no less. He says global warming is real and he is
trying to find the causes.
The Swiss government gave him a 3 year grant to study global warming. He's paid well and he gets his P.H.D.
in the process.

By the way the trip from Paris to Zurich, Switzerland was nice and seemed very short. About the time
it takes to go to Las Vegas from Los Angeles. Besides everbody on the train was very nice.

Zurich, Switzerland is quite beautiful to say the least. There is a river through the town that
runs into a big lake just in
front of the town. They have these excursion boats you can go on.

Swiss chocolate is great and of course I sampling plenty of it.

A point to make here is that if you live or stay in Italy it is easy to go to Switzerland,
France, Austria and Germany. You can be in Paris in no time or in my case now Zurich, Switzerland.
I'll be in Milano Friday and Vicenza all in the same day by train.

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Old 06-28-2009, 03:12 AM
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and i've been in califoria LA while u where gone . I pick up your mail lol nothing important all bills. Have a great time. Hope the traffic is better, its insane in LA lol
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hi villa do you know that film "the day after tommorow" or something like that (I don't remember if it's the right name) it talked about global warming and there was that scientist who studied global warming and predicted an enviromental disaster but of course as in all films (the ones that I remember anyway ) his studies were not appreciated by the powerful selfish insensetive people who cared about money and so (of course) a disaster did happen, well reading the part in your post about your scientist friend and global warming made me think of that film
piece of advice: never understate his predictions cuz people who understate the situation always get hurt in the process, that's in films anyway, also if he starts showing interest in money, know that he's changing into an evil scientist lol
have fun villa, and don't forget my advise
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