This shot of the church in the central square of Mullhouse’s Old Town made it on to our travel photo wall of fame. For those of you who have been in our basement living room, you will have noticed a collection of framed travel shots on the wall above the couch. The rule of thumb is, if the trip is over a week long, at lease one photo from the trip has to be put on the wall.
I hope it isn’t too weird to post this photo but this is Johanna’s desk featuring a photo of you know who, everyone’s favorite cat to fear and respect, Milhaud. This framed photo was a gift from Milhaud. Also, there is a shot of Emmy and Johanna after their performance as Adelaide and Sarah in Guys and Dolls.
I think this is the second wall of fame photo that is also my current Facebook Homepage background. We have several like it so this may not be the exact photo but you get the idea. Many people who see this picture break into song, “the hills are alive with the sound of music” thinking that it looks like the spot where former nun in training Julie Andrews danced and sang near Salzburg, Austria. Incidentally, The Sound of Music is not and never has been a popular musical or movie in any German speaking country. I wonder if the German speaking people love some movie set in America that we’ve never heard of . . .
Snow in July is always a novelty and this is only around 9000 feet, about the same elevation as Breckenridge, Colorado. We enjoyed watching the elevation readout on our navigation device in the car. Sue had downloaded the Germany/Switzerland/Austria map back in the US which did not include France so when we typed in the Basel airport (which is actually in France) the navigation device could not give us directions to it. Funny. It was almost like our German device didn’t want us to go to France.
We love mountains. Any mountains. Maybe Sue and I will drive the Mini Cooper out to the Rockies again next summer.
This was our expensive soup/bread/currywurst and potato salad lunch washed down with a Radler. The waitress made sure we knew that a Radler was half beer and half lemon soda.
Warning to Christoph: any day now a “teach yourself German” book will be arriving in the mail from Amazon.com. Prepare yourself for questions regarding irregular verbs and the ins and outs of using der, die, das, den, und dem.
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