Last night, Heidi and I had dinner in the strong gusts of an approaching storm. My fitnessteller almost blew away! Heidi is a friend of Allison and I from Allison's past life living in Zurich.
In the square at Rapperswil.
The fortress in Rapperswil, across the Zurichsee from Altendorf.
We stumbled across a boy's tournement of Swiss Alpine Wresting, called a "Schwingfest." About 100 competitors each fight six rounds on a thick bed of sawdust, all with the ambiance of blaring Swiss traditional accordion music called "laendler." The looser brushes the sawdust off the winner. For a video, see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL0gjLk3-0E to watch Heidi's sister's boyfriend, named Reto (the wrestler wearing all white).
Cow bells are the prizes for the four top winners. Heidi's nephew Cornel won second-place in the competition.
The other prizes earned by the four top winners are adult rabbits (who end up invited to family dinner).
A ski-jumping venue with no snow. This isn't an impediment to the Swiss. They ski on top of astro-turf at 90km/hr. I didn't try because I wanted to come home in one-piece.
A welcoming cow.
Heidi, a living stereotype of true "Swissness" at her family's farm, where she grew up.
Last night, Heidi and I had dinner in the strong gusts of an approaching storm. My fitnessteller almost blew away! Heidi is a friend of Allison and I from Allison's past life living in Zurich.
In the square at Rapperswil.
The fortress in Rapperswil, across the Zurichsee from Altendorf.
We stumbled across a boy's tournement of Swiss Alpine Wresting, called a "Schwingfest." About 100 competitors each fight six rounds on a thick bed of sawdust, all with the ambiance of blaring Swiss traditional accordion music called "laendler." The looser brushes the sawdust off the winner. For a video, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL0gjLk3-0E to watch Heidi's sister's boyfriend, named Reto (the wrestler wearing all white).
Cow bells are the prizes for the four top winners. Heidi's nephew Cornel won second-place in the competition.
The other prizes earned by the four top winners are adult rabbits (who end up invited to family dinner).
A ski-jumping venue with no snow. This isn't an impediment to the Swiss. They ski on top of astro-turf at 90km/hr. I didn't try because I wanted to come home in one-piece.
A welcoming cow.
Heidi, a living stereotype of true "Swissness" at her family's farm, where she grew up.
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