Back from France, côte d'azur, where I spent two beautiful weeks with the family. Between begin and end of our short holidays the world moved-on:
purchasing power of (Swiss) Franc owners increased by 10%: I paid hiring charges at the end of the holidays; the historical euro/franc `parity' was observed on August 09, 2011 (X-rate of 1.008);
daily market volatility exceeded 5% on world's largest stock-exchanges and markets plunged monotonically from begin to end of our holidays;
recession fears inflated;
London's burning.
Quite unprecedent summer-activity! Sometime somebody should have gone on holiday, too.
