Quanzhou, China

07/10 China Trip to Jinjiang, Fujian

For a commissioning job at "Golden Crown Company", I had the chance to get once again to JinJiang City, Fujian with its exciting night life, its colourful lighted shopping mile and its countless tasty restaurants. Big thanks to my teammate Lisa from our representative office in Beijing for the unforgettable time!

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Taoyuen City, Taiwan

07/10 Taiwan Trip to Taoyuen City

For a new servicing job at "Hunya Foods" and after so many months I spent in Taiwan in 2009, I felt like kind of home coming to a good ol' place I always loved to stay at. Big thanks to all the machine operators and to the guys from the R&D departement for their dedicated work on the new products!

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Typical Shoe Lockers, Japan

01/10 Japan Trip to Kobe, Seishin

To relocate a complete chocolate production line at Morozoff Ltd. in Kobe, my workmate and myself had the big pleasure to start the new year with an extra challenge in exciting Japan! Being on my fathers trail again, when he landed as a sailor in Kobe back in the early 70'ties, means a lot to me!

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Minas Gerais, Brazil

12/09 Brazil Trip to São Paulo Area

For some product optimizing and mechanical servicing jobs to some of our chocolate depositors, my final trip for the year 2009 took me to warm South America :-) First destination in Brazil was Extrema City in the green hilly state of Minas Gerais, later I traveled to several city districts of São Paulo.

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Market Women, Vietnam

11/09 Vietnam Trip to Hồ Chí Minh City

For Vietnam's first chocolate manufacturing company "Grand Place", I had the big honour to travel to exciting Hồ Chí Minh City, formerly known as the city of Saigon. A place on earth no one would expect to get worldclass chocolate and coffee too... What an unforgettable experience!!

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Taoyuen County, Taiwan

08/09 Taiwan Trip to Taoyuen City

For a bigger installation of a fully automated Chocolate production line at "Hunya Foods" in Taoyuen County, my collegue and I had the great chance to travel to the north of Taiwan. As one of our biggest highlights was our seightseeing tour to the "Taipei 101", which made this trip even more memorable.

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Fuijan Province, China

07/09 China Trip to Jinjiang, Fujian

As a big fan of the asian culture, I finally made it after so many years for the first time to the "People's Rebuplic of China". I felt very honoured to commission one of our first machine on chinese mainland at "Fujian Haolinju Foodstuff Industry CO., LTD" in JinJiang City.

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China Garden, Zurich

07/09 Day Trip to Zurich, Switzerland

Just before heading to the "Peoples Republic of China", my wife and me decided to visit the beautiful "China Garden" which is located right at the lake Zurich, about 25km from my hometown. It was a wonderful, warm summer day and we had lots of fun. Big thanks to my wife Cherry!

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Hamilton, Canada

06/09 Canada Trip to Hamilton, ON

In June I had the chance to get once more to Canada for a smaller wet commissioning job at "Karma Candy" in Hamilton, Ontario. Totally unexpected I also had the possibility to see one evening the world famous Niagara Falls, right at the border to the U.S state of New York. Wow... That was really fascinating!

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Fort Wayne, USA

04/09 USA Trip to Ft. Wayne, Indiana

To finalize my job at "De Brand Fine Chocolates", I was in the lucky situation to return to Fort Wayne, USA - in April 2009. I also had the chance to meet my good ol' buddy from the local Chevrolet dealership again, who helped me out so much in finding some rare GM car parts.  Thanks Dave!

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Pyramids of Giza, Egypt

02/09 Egypt Trip to Cairo

In February 2009 I had a servicing job on a chocolate production line at "Mars Company" in Cairo, Egypt - which my collegue and I installed back in the year 2004. Before returning back to Switzerland, I had a real funny and painfull incident with a local fellow, right at the world famous Pyramids of Giza :-)

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Indianapolis Speedway, USA

12/08 USA Trip to Ft. Wayne, Indiana

In December 2008, just before Christmas I had an installation job of a mid-sized chocolate production line at "De Brand Fine Chocolates" in Fort Wayne, USA - 150miles north of Indianapolis. And WOW... That was cold up here!! Big thanks to Cathy & Tim and their staff for the wonderful time!

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Car Show in Iowa City, USA

07/08 USA Trip to Iowa-City, Iowa

After working for so many years in the field, in July 2008 I did my very first trip to the USA, which was very exciting to me. I had a re-installation job of a chocolate production line at "Bochner Chocolates" in Iowa City, right after the destructive flood in June 2008. I'm thankful for this great experience!

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Detay Company - Istanbul, Turkey

05/08 Turkey Trip to Istanbul

In Spring 2008 a big project at "Altinmarka Company", brought my colleague and myself to Istanbul, the largest city of Turkey and one of the oldest cities in the world. It's also the only metroplis in the world which is situated on two continents. An ancient city which surely has many stories to tell!

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Surfers Paradise, Australia

04/08 Australia Trip to Surfers Paradise Queensland

The second trip to Australia in my career, took me to the beautiful Queensland's Gold Coast, to Brisbane and Surfers Paradise area for an installation of a chocolate production line at "Belgian Delights" in Molendinar. Big thanks to Family Verstreken!

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Boat Quay, Singapore

09/07 Singapore Trip

In September 2007 my job brought my good old companions and myself to "Aalst Chocolate" in Singapore, the smallest nation in southeast asia and one of four remaining city-states in the world. A stunning super high tech city with it's chinese roots and modern, western oriented life style.

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Morning Rush in Tehran, Iran

07/07 Iran Trip to Tehran & Karaj

In July 2007 I had an installation job of a single chocolate depositor in Karaj, Iran. A place I definately did not expect they do Chocolates! With mixed feelings I travelled to Tehran, and I was really curious how this city is going to look like. And it absolutely surprised me... in a good way!

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City of Paris, France

03/07 France Trip to Paris

For my wifes birthday we went in March 2007 on a short holiday trip to the romantic city of Paris in France. It was big fun shopping at the world famous Champs Elysées while getting to the Louis Vuitton store and spending quite a bite of birthday-money for a very simple women's wallet... Wow, what expensive stuff!!

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Zapopan, Mexico

10/06 Mexico Trip to Guadalajara

In October 2006 my colleague and I had an installation job of two independent chocolate production lines in Guadalajara, the capital city of the Mexican state of Jalisco. Guadalajara is also known as Mexico's "Silicon Valley" due to its strong electronics industry. And wow... they have spicy foods!

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Kyoto, Japan

11/04 Japan Trip to Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto

In November 2004 two buddies and myself went on our first big trip for an installation job of an unique project of a fully automated chocolate molding line in crazy Japan! It was probably one of the toughest jobs, but one of the very best time in our lives with lots of good memories. Big thanks to Chrigi & Berni!

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Petra, Jordan

07/04 Jordan Trip to Amman & Petra

In July 2004 my great instructor Aki and me went on a installation job of a mid-sized chocolate production line in Amman, Jordan. For the weekend we had the chance, on the trail of one of the most famous hollywood character - Indiana Jones, to visit the original film set... The ancient lost city of Petra!

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Chumphon, Thailand

08/01 Thailand Round-Trip 

In August 2001 my wife and myself went on a Thailand roundtrip to visit all our relatives. Since they life spread all over the country, it was the best opportunity for us to see the differences between the hilly country side of the north and the tropical sea side of the south, while beeing on the trail of our roots.

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