we’ll be meeting for lunch in two weeks (April 18 at noon) at Alpenland
Delicatessen on Mercer Island

Alpenland Delicatessen
2707 78th Ave SE
Mercer Island, WA 98040
Phone: (206) 232-4780

http://seattle.citysearch.com/profile/10754969/mercer_island_wa/alpenland_de
licatessen.html

Park on the street or in front.Lunch runs $5-$15 depending on your
appetite.

Please RSVP by e-mail so that I can reserve the right size table.

Thanks, Manu

Friday, January 25, 2008 at 12.00 noon

Location:

Desert Fire
7211 166th Ave NE
Redmond, WA 98052
(425) 895-1500

This is in the parking lot of the Redmond Town Center

Map link
Note: if you work for Microsoft, this restaurant is right next to the RTC
buildings, which are served by shuttle.

You can take a look at the menu here:
http://www.desertfiremex.com/menus/lunch_menu.asp . Plan on a $20-$35 lunch.

Please RSVP by reply e-mail.

Best regards & Happy New Year

Manu

Date: Thursday, October 11 at 6 PM

Location: Andre’s Eurasian Bistro, Bellevue

Cost: about $25-35 per person - we’ll have group appetizers and you’ll order your main course from the menu (see http://andresbistro.com/).

Please bring cash or check!

RSVP by reply e-mail by Monday, October 8, 2007.

Best regards,
Manu

2707 78th Ave SE
Mercer Island, WA
98040

Phone: (206) 232-4780

Alpenland Delicatessen - Mercer Island, WA, 98040 - Citysearch

Park on the street or in front.Lunch runs $5-$15 depending on your
appetite; order & pay at the counter and join the Swiss Network
Seattle table!

Please RSVP so that I can reserve the right size table.

Please join Philippe Goetschel, Honorary Consul of Switzerland, Seattle next Friday for this lecture and cocktail reception. The lecture events are organized in connection with the publication of the bi-lingual anthology, entitled “Young Swiss Writers” edited by Prof. Romey Sabalius and Prof. Michael Wutz.

(The Anthology will be published in February 2007 in the bi-lingual contemporary German-language literature magazine “Dimension2″ Ingo R. Stoehr, Editor; Web: http://hometown.aol.com/germanlit/dimension2.html )

Martin R. Dean was born and educated in Switzerland. He studied German, Ethnology and Philosophy at the University of Basel. His numerous travels brought him to different European countries as well as to several more distant locations. He is working as an independent author and journalist in Basel. www.mrdean.ch

Daniel Zahno lives and works in Basel an author, moderator and reviewer. His first book “Doktor Turban” received numerous prizes. He received a scholarship to work at the Ledig House in New York and was invited as a guest by the Istituto Svizzero in Venice. His second book “Im Hundumdrehen” was published in September 2006. www.danielzahno.ch

Friday, February 23, 2007, 1.30 pm, University of Washington, Seattle/ WA,
William H. Rey Library, Denny Hall, Room 308;

PLEASE RSVP: uwgerman@u.washington.edu; ph. (206) 543 45 80

Pro Helvetia, the Arts Council of Switzerland

San José State University, Department Foreign Languages, Prof. Romey
Sabalius

University of Washington, Dept. of Germanics, Seattle/WA, Prof. Sabine
Wilke, Chair

Consulate General of Switzerland, San Francisco

• Friday, January 26
• Crowne Plaza, downtown Seattle.

I will send an invitation with details and advanced payment information in a few weeks. Regards, Manu

First, our next meeting will be held in the late May / early June timeframe as a lunch in Seattle. Location, topic and date will be announced later – thank you for all the suggestions regarding topics and format.

Second, as you read this, the online presence of the Swiss Network Seattle is in place, with the following resources:

• Web site at www.swiss-network.org/seattle/ This site is in blog format and allows for comments. This is a simple site that will be improved, but I’ve incorporated the few requests expressed in the survey.

• A mailing list hosted by swiss-list.com. I encourage you to subscribe and contribute to the list. The list will be used for event invitations, and is open for all members to discuss issues related to the Swiss in Seattle. Also, consider signing up for the other lists at http://swiss-list.com/

For those of you who used LinkedIn, the Swiss Network Seattle will be set up as a LinkedIn group, on an opt-in basis. Details will follow.

Please let me know if you have additional suggestions for the Swiss Network Seattle – either by e-mail or through a comment on this message.

Manu