Just one more corner and we are out of here. Her eyes are following me everywhere.
Daily Archives: 23/08/2017
Flower of the Day: 23.08.2017 Viburnum
A viburnum taken in a garden on one of my walks in the village.
Daily Prompt: Visceral feelings
Today we took a trip up the local mountain, Weissenstein. Now to be quite honest the word “visceral” is not really something I have ever used or knew how to use. I had to peep in the dictionary and found that it would have a connection to my internal state. I had to check on the German meaning of the word, because I thought it might be clearer and we got down to the intestines.
Now I do not really think that a blog about my intestines and their state of operation would be a big deal, but perhaps I got it wrong. Anyhow we drove up to the gondola station. Luckily they had a lift connection to the ticket office, as I do not think that my visceral condition would have permitted me to climb the flight of stairs to the station. There were not so many people today, as the holiday season is now petering out. When we got to the ticket office the lady selling the tickets was an old workmate of mine. This was great as she organised the cabin that arrived to go slower for me to get into it with my cane. Afterwards it was a smooth ride to the top with no intestinal problems, although at the mid station (Nesselboden) the gondola had to make a curve which was slightly queasy (intestinally).
Eventually we arrived at the top. As I am not really in a condition to do a mountain walk, we headed for the restaurant which had a wonderfully large terrace. I was armed with my camera and my zoom lens, but of course wanted a table overlooking the view. To get to this table we had the next viscerous problem. I had to descent three steps and there was no railing to help me. Eventually we discovered one set of steps with a railing. This was probably reserved for people with dogs, as there was a large dog bowl on each step for water. Now I was happy, I overcame the steps and we had a nice table with a view over Solothurn and all the trimmings – see photo. Of course I took many photos, over 100, but have not yet uploaded them.
Eventually we left for home again on the gondola.The descent was OK, nothing visceral. There was enough room to park our car at the base of the gondola station so did not have to walk very far.
We arrived safely home with no negative visceral feelings. I really ask myself why I bother with these stupid prompts, it is enough to make anyone feel visceral.
Just
getting
visceral
Good Morning
It’s the photo of the day in front of the kitchen window. Today it is our turn to be pasted. I alreay have one of my friendly workers pasting some sort of net on various parts of the wall and he is covering up the metal edging to the windows. Afterwards he will be covering the whole creation with this white pasty mixture. I have a feeling today we will not be alone, it is our day. Only two months to go and we can say goodbye to the whole mess and bother.
Today we have decided to get away from it all for a couple of hours. We have been intending to visit our local mountain for a couple of years, since they built the new gondola railway. Mr. Swiss found we should go this week as long as the summer weather is with us. Yesterday we did a check on Internet to see if it would be possible for me to be able to do it. It said that there is no great problem with wheelchairs. So if a wheelchair can do it, I can do it with my walking cane.
I have not been up to the top for many years. When I was younger it was one of my favourite places. You have a great view over the so-called flat plains of the middle land down to the alps of the Bernese overland if it is a clear day. Sometimes all you get is a sea of fog, but that is usually on rainy days. Today is sun and pleasant temperatures so lets do it.
Otherwise it is off to the supermarket this morning for a further adventure in my boring life. I will probably not be around so much today. Life is not only computers and blogs, there is another world out there as well, the problem being it is so active, combined with exercise and movement. Computers are so restful, you only use your hands on the keyboard.
And as I was thinking today there is nothing spectacular happening I saw something in front of the window. Some minutes later and a few camera shots, I made the most of the newest arrival.
We now have a king sized crane, they must have organised it for my camera. It seems they are now heaving the new large stone tiles up to the balconies above. Our tiles remain the same, unless we want to pay a lot of extra money to have the new luxury tiles. We are two golden oldies and find it is really not worth it. Whoever comes after us can do it, but our tiles are good enough. And here is an action photo of the tiles being raised to the balcony, but now I really must go – the vaccuum cleaner is calling.
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