{"id":138,"date":"2012-07-09T22:42:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T20:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joncu.roguenet.org\/swissblog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2021-09-21T22:47:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T22:47:36","slug":"soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/2012\/07\/09\/soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a soccer summer with the European games going on.\u00a0 For weeks it was everywhere.\u00a0 You pass a bar and hear a game.\u00a0 In the restaurant in Konstanz (an otherwise elegant place), the game was showing on a big screen TV.\u00a0 At Turnhalle, a bar in the courtyard of an old gymnasium where Jon\u2019s co-workers like to go on Thursdays for a beer or a \u2018Cuba Libre\u2019 (rum and coke), a tent was set up with a TV and waves of cheers and moans washed over those outside.\u00a0 So it seemed fitting that Autodesk held its annual Soccer tournament in Switzerland this year and we were able to attend.\u00a0 The Neuchatel AD office is quite large and fields two teams.\u00a0 Gumligen is quite small and has no one who is even interested.\u00a0 Thus it was that Jon and I were able to borrow the company car and drive by ourselves to Neuchatel for the all-day event Saturday 7\/7.<\/p>\n

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\"Autodesk<\/a>

Autodesk Soccer Tournament in Neuchatel<\/p><\/div>\n

Once again, the theme of the year played out:\u00a0 things foreign may be interesting but they are also stress-inducing.\u00a0 After a week of facing minor everyday foreignnesses like not knowing what someone is saying to you or whether the change you\u2019re getting back is correct, driving a strange car to a new place on roads with different signs wasn\u2019t exactly a fun time. The games themselves were fun.\u00a0 We\u2019ve begun to understand the rules a bit and although we knew almost no one there, we managed to meet a number of people and have some nice conversations.<\/p>\n

\"Lake<\/a>

Lake Neuchatel<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sunday was bike repair day.\u00a0 The tandem\u2019s front tire had gone flat from a slow leak, the result of a failed old patch thus requiring a new tube.\u00a0 And it was caked with dirt from the muddy paths we\u2019ve been on. All 3 bikes needed cleaning and oiling.\u00a0 And we needed a bit of body repair as well, a quiet at home day was definitely due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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