I first discovered Heather Nova listening to the Eskobar hit single “Someone New”, and has since then tried to keep an eye on her–not being entirely successful, though. She is in Copenhagen this Friday, I just learned this Monday from a colleague!
Her new album, Redbird, can be heard via online streaming at V2 Italy. It seems like the album is a purchase candidate.
Of the more than 250 photos I took, I have assembled a small slide show of about 30.
This morning I landed in Copenhagen Airport - back from Lausanne. I’ll give you the story later, along with some more photos, but for now you will have to do with this photograph from the town of Vevey, which used to be home for Charlie Chaplin.
Tomorrow, I am going to Lausanne (very close to Geneva) for vacation. It’s comes in at the exact right time. To have any notion of what I am going (in) to, check out this post by my friend, Morten (who I am going to visit down there). Wow!
I will try to see whether I can update you as I am there, but at the latest I will upload some photos when I get back next week.
I have just come home from the McKinsey EuroAcademy 2005. It started on Wednesday evening with a team-building dinner for the Nordic participants (four from Denmark, the rest from Norway, Sweden, and Finland), where we in teams prepared a three course, super delicious dinner for each other. It took place in Meyer’s Madhus, which I can recommend highly.
On Thursday, we flew to Athens to meet with the 120 students from all over Europe. Thursday was mostly relaxation, getting to know each other, and a presentation of McKinsey.
Friday was Academy Day, which started with a speech from Patrick Cox, former President of the EU Parliament, followed by a panel discussion. We then split into groups to debate different issues in Europe ranging from Banking in Europe over European Governance to Eastern Europe. I was in the latter with about 15 other students, which proved to be very informative and exciting, especially as we had several students from Easter Europe in our break-out session (e.g. the Czech Republic and Turkey). Our moderator was the Governor of the National Bank of Serbia, Radovan Jelašic. These break-out sessions were followed by an inspiring leadership panel. At dinner, Jean-Claude Trichet, the President of the European Central Bank, held a wonderful speech on, especially, the Euro, its consequences and success.
On Saturday, we went out sailing on 47-yachts. Although sailing is one of my keen interests, I have never sailed such big sailing boats. We were about 21 boats, so we had a semi-race, which was extremely fun.
Sunday, a hectic goodbye day, where we had too little time to say goodbye to each other — hopefully, we have the chance to get together again at some point. I have already some plans, and I am sure the rest has too.
Thank you all for a wonderful trip.
