Evendays

Friday, Wife, daughter and I headed off towards Lille, France after the worship time at the nearby retirement home. We had decided to stop at the just-over-halfway point in a cheapy hotel. This was our first stay at a Formule 1, those modular, prefabbed hotels that cost 50 bucks to stay the night. It worked [...]

Last Saturday evening My Irish Buddy Paul (MIBP) invited me to the VIP section of the UBS Arena, which is actually an outdoor theater where they’ve set up a huge screen to watch the Euro 2008 matches. Why did MIBP invite me? His wife doesn’t like European Football. Yes, I know. Hard to believe. Why [...]

We picked up Jack at the airport late Monday. He’d been in Spain visiting Juan Monroy, an old friend. He wanted to come see Wife and me, even though it took going through London Heathrow, a major mess these days. Love knows no bounds…
Jack has meant much to our family, especially to Wife’s parents. He [...]

Switzerland played the gracious host and was the first of 16 teams to be eliminated from advancement into the next round of the European Cup, leaving the spot in their group to either Turkey or Czech Republic. Portugal has already won the group.
Wife and I went to a tent where about 300 gathered in the [...]

 
Stéphane Fournier wrote an article in the local paper and asked the question: Will a spirit of catastrophe threaten [Team Nati]? Bernard Challandes, wise coach of FC Zurich replied:
No. I don’t believe it will. What is essential for the players to do is to hold on to what is positive. There were some positive [...]

Last night, Switzerland lost the opening match of Euro 2008 after playing a terrific game against Czech Republic. The Nati lost their best offensive player to a knee injury in the 44th minute. Sad. The Czechs scored in their only real opportunity. Very sad. Then the ref missed a Czech hand in the penalty box [...]

When the Portuguese national football (soccer) team arrived in Switzerland, there were thousands of people, mostly Portuguese residents in Switzerland, there to meet them. Hundreds of motorcycles followed the team bus from Geneva to Neuchâtel, a 90 minute trip, where the team is staying between matches. One of Wife’s friends said that she happened to [...]

Sorry, but European football may be a reoccurring motif in the weeks to come. The European Cup of Nations starts on Friday night. Teams have been arriving in Switzerland over the last couple of days. Some of the host cities to the teams are swamped with fans who have shown up to get a glimpse [...]

An influx of visitors from other cities, along with a handful of local members, gave us a wonderful moment of worship and fellowship on Sunday morning. Pancakes were then shared by all, then we drove an hour in the evening for worship in English, a rather rare experience for us, with the church in Geneva. [...]