In the middle of September I have brought a new car. I was forced to make the change mainly because my old car was registered in Romania, and while now I am residing in Switzerland, I would had to register it here (which can be translated in a lot of taxes and a large decrease in its value - selling price). So, while in vacation in August in Romania, I have sold my old Opel Astra 1992 (still in a good condition) and started the process of buying a new Honda Civic on my return here. I have received the car on 13th of September, and I was so eager to take it for a ride, although with the purchasing, my bank balance was very close to zero. ...No, it is not the car in the right side image... but, you can find a very nice presentation of the model [link=http://www.honda.co.uk/civic/]...

In the last weekend in September we went to visit some friends in Nancy in Lorraine province of France. We left Lausanne in a Friday afternoon and with the help of a GPS system we managed to arrive at night in Nancy after around 4 hours of driving. We spent that evening in a bar, catching up with the latest news as we did not see our friends for more than 6 months.

Nancy has a population of around 400000, very similar in size with my university city of Timisoara (western Romania), and its the capital of Meurthe-et-Moselle department. The city's history goes back to 800BC, and their glory period was under the rule of Duke Stanislas (as the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine) in 18th century. Stanislas (or Stanislaw in polish language) was the King of ...