Episode 50: Rebel Hope

This site exists because apparently turning 50 requires infrastructure!!!!

The idea is simple: on 1–2 May 2027, I’m bringing together people I’ve collected and who have collected me across different countries, periods of life, languages, professions, synchronicities, destiny twists, friendships and questionable decisions.

Some of you know each other. Many of you don’t. By Sunday 2nd of May 27, this should be less true (another hope;))

The site is here to deal with the practical side of this experiment: how to get to Geneva, where to sleep without taking out a second mortgage, what we are doing and when, and a few things that may help you navigate Romand part of Switzerland without unnecessary suffering.

English is our voie du milieu, almost (there are some lucky knowers where to put the ‘ the ‘ and A since their 2nd year of life;;))) nobody’s perfect language, everybody’s meeting point.

Beyond that, there isn’t much to explain. I wanted the people who have inhabited very different corners of my life to be, for one weekend, in the same place. Like in the series, but usually somebody needs to die, and I am not planning on the Geneva edition of the White Lotus!

Geneva in May seemed as good a place as any; Kikinda could be complicated for the accommodation, Alicante would steal you by its beaches, Belgrade by its colorful mess, Göttingen, hmmmm labs, spaghetti ice, Schroeder beer? Among all these stops, the in-between Geneva is just my waterlilly!

And 50 seemed a sufficiently serious excuse to see you while I still could pretend I know how to dance.