They were everywhere even on the balcony of our hotel.
And in pictures on the noticeboard where there were reminders of my own Scary One back home… no, I’m not making it up.
All of which mooanderings around the subject brings me back to what’s happening in Switzerland in advance of our return.
E-bike in the E-Alps
Ring your bell Ermentrude
I’d be safer on these (probably) than the Trotti scooters favoured in woodland and the open road.
You can cross Switzerland in one week from north-east to south-west on la route verte, or the green tour.
And run into some Swiss cows on the mountain paths.
And literally too if you overdo it on your stop-offs to meet the various different winegrowers on the way.
You’ll meet friendly farmers too and some country folk only too happy to show you their strange musical instruments.
The tour is 470km long and starts in the German-speaking city of Schaffhausen, and passes through six Swiss Nature Parks, finally ending up in French Geneva.
A good walk
Are we there yet?
And a hike in the hills is nothing to the Swiss, young and septegenarian young alike, such as yodeller Brigitte who had us eating dust on the way up the peaks.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Via Francigena was just a weekend stroll to a woman of Brigitte’s phenomenal energies.
As every Bandanino or Bandanette knows from reading these posts over the last couple of years in the year 990 Sigeric, the Archbishop of Rome began the Via Francigena tradition.
Sigeric had returned to England from Rome crossing Switzerland via the Jura and the Alps.
I nibbled into the route from Viterbo in Lazio into the Eternal City, but my 100km feel quite paltry comparative to Sigeric’s labours.
On the Via
I say 100km, but wanderer that I am I went off-piste and swore I saw some snow-capped mountains in the distance.
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