Third day in Switzerland. Took a train from Basel to Langnau and arrived at 12 noon.
Beat and Ann are nice to host us for one night stay at their farm house, or rather, beat’s family’s. Beat came with Naomi to pick us up from the train station, and drove us to their place, up, up, up in the mountains. On our left and right was snow. It was a glorious sight, and that was probably my closest encounter with snow in this trip.
They keep cows and pigs, grow berries and apple trees, carrots and some other crops. I lost count of the number of cats and just one half blind and half deaf dog, who always sat at the door.
We brought sunshine to Langnau that day we arrived. You could see from the pictures that the sky was clear blue, not a single cloud. Somehow the pictures turned out splendid because of mr sun. While Nathan had his noon nap, we strolled around the farm and snapped. Every corner is worth a shot.
The departure lunch was our first authentic swiss meal – much loved fondue. I had forgotten how nice it tasted, since 5 yrs ago when we had it at Interlaken in summer. I still remembered we had to scout around for a restaurant which would serve us fondue, cos nobody eats it in summer. In winter, it’s perfect.
The most amazing thing about this place was, everything is home made. Talk about home-made products at commercial stores, the milk and juice we had, even the vegetables were home grown, no sugar added nor preservatives. Nathan had his first taste of cow’s milk, yes, straight from the cows. All we need to do was to bring the milk to a boil, then down his tummy, he loved it.
Nothing beats spending time with friends in a trip. Switzerland is a beautiful country, very clean and neat, and filled with the wonders of nature – high mountains, rivers and lakes. We were glad we made it.
