zanox Official Blog » Side Stories http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox Inside the mind of the global alliance Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:21:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Summer in the City http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/07/03/summer-in-the-city/ http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/2009/07/03/summer-in-the-city/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:53:28 +0000 Valerie Ponell http://blog.zanox.com/en/zanox/?p=1011 Oh well, that’s summer in Berlin… Some of us just decided to move our Friday afternoon meeting down to the river Spree, to get some sun and enjoy temperatures around 30 degrees Celsius. And least we had about ten minutes to work really hard – while also working really hard on our tan:

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Short-term fun though – this is how lovely Berlin summer looked just a few minutes later:

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Let’s just hope it changes back to sun-and-heat mode as quickly as it just did and wishing you all a sunny weekend! :)

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Our lovely big, orange zanox bear is in a bunny mood! So if you spot him somewhere hiding (or eating) eggs, don’t be surprised. Actually, it might have been him who left all these yummy chocolate bunnies on our desks this morning!

So have a great Easter holiday eveybody, loads of chocolate eggs and a few sunny days!

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