Switzerland: last days

Today, the day we are updating our blog is Monday. So we have a few days to catch up!! So much seems to have happened. This post will get us up to Friday. So Wednesday: visit to Bubikon cemetery and then the little lake swim; connect with Staufers. Thursday: last day with Gotti at big lake with Stauffers. Friday: visit Zurich, pick up hire car. 

We are well.

So:

 

This was our last day staying at Gotti’s house. After the family photos in the back yard we visited the Bubikon cemetery where Dani’s mum, Verena, is buried. There are other members of the family here, including Georg, gotti’s husband, and Groesli’s husband and her family members.

Groesli and Gotti came with us to the cemetery and Groesli shouted us all a pastry at the bakery.

After that we went to the shops and bought clothes for the boys and had lunch out. Then the boys and Gotti went down to the Egelsee (which translates as the ‘leech lake’). Later Felix and Claudia Stauffer arrived and the four of us met the others at the lake. Dani spent many an afternoon after school and on weekends at the Egelsee with her mates. Diving off the pontoons and racing around in the water. It was very ‘fresh’ the day we were there. The mud bath was explored but found lacking in muddiness, so we hung out in the sun (we have been very fortunate in the weather) chatting.

We walked back home along the ‘wanderweg’, looking for four-leaf clovers and soaking up the Swissness of it all.

 

Around 5pm we drove to Hinteregg (that translates as ‘behind Egg’) were the Stauffers live. They stayed on Maggie in 2005 for 3 months, living at Chris Corbett’s and Maria O’Conners for a time.

We had a very swiss meal of grilled melted cheese squares with the melted cheese scraped over boiled potato, with a dozen different condiments to then add.

We went out with Felix and there dog, past Egg (which translates as ‘corner’) up onto the Pfannenstiel (‘the panhandle’) where we could, from the top, see down to the Greifensee (where we would go boating the next day) on one side, and down to Lake Zurich on the other.

Home -> bed.