Everything is gearing up for national day next week (1 August), with all kinds of Swiss flag or Swiss traditional pattern tat overflowing the shelves in the supermarkets. And all made in China, which I was a bit surprised by.
Right now, all you need to "heat and melt" at least is to leave chocolate out of the fridge.
We managed to escape from the heat yesterday - we met up with Dawn in Lucern and although it was a hot 33°C with a "felt heat" of 40°C thanks to humidity, we got the bus to the cable car and switched to the gondola to go up and away into the mountains to Pilatus, which was 20°C degrees - heaven! We also managed to get a little burnt despite putting on sun block, but it was still very worth it.
A new experience - a goat jam. The one on the stairs was not moving for anything. And some little hitch-hikers we found when we sat down.
There was a huge wait for the gondola to go back down, but just as we went to see if the cog railway was running some staff appeared at the gate to say yes, it was, swapped our tickets for us and ushered us onto the last of three cars making the descent. Thank you! And what a descent it is. And just to prove that Swiss cows get everywhere, there were some at the side of the tracks...
Dawn was just back from Japan and had brought us some amazing omiyage - a "lobster kitty" bag and "lobster kitty" and "candle kitty" sticky note set from Mie! Love the regional Hello Kittys. And we got a box of the delicious senbei crackers she brought us before, but the summer edition this time! Even the packaging is cute.
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