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Euro08 football seems to be on everyone’s mind. I’ve been invited to a brainstorming meeting Thursday for international people in Geneva who would like to create mini-events to go with the big event in June 2008. Meanwhile, a long-faced note from Graham Dunbar, who has begun to cover sports for GenevaLunch after moving from the UK. He’s written for The Times and worked in broadcasting, mainly in England , but his heart is in Scotland. He delivered part of the weekend sports roundup with this note: "’I've read every Scottish Sunday newspaper and it seems we still lost. Unbelievable. Yours, sadly, Graham." Ever the professional, he managed to rise above the heartbreaking news and write about sports – check it out Monday morning on our main news (home) page.

And Kathy Epp at the International School of Geneva sent a note suggesting that I might want to share this saga of taking a streetcar named chaos, in Geneva, written on the MissKate blog by a librarian at the Nations campus of the school. Friday was a bad day for taking at least one of the trams in the city and MissKate wonders if Geneva is really ready for Euro08 (like her ending!). GenevaLunch now has one more great blog to add to our growing list of resources.

While talking about blogs, I recently tripped over a fan of my Whistlestop Caboose blog, which has been on hold since March. He asked me why and I explained that the main reason was in protest against Google, which refused to let me see my Blogger menu in English rather than German, which I don’t read. I’ve decided to pick it up again, probably next week, but publish it on Vox, which is what MissKate and a few other bloggers I know now use. Whistlestop Caboose is my writer’s persona equivalent of slow food. It’s all about the things you notice when you slow down, take a little more time: it’s the view from the back of the train. I’m looking forward to starting it up again.

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