Switzerland

Here is another leg of our journey.

We drove from Italy into Switzerland and made our way to Saint Gallen which sits beside Lake Constance.

We came to a very small camp ground which is part of a small 15ha farm.
The farmer changed from dairy farming to beef production as the milk prices are very poor in Switzerland.  He has a small Angus breeding unit of 20 cows.
They are housed indoors during the summer days and let out at night into the cooler air. They are feed cut grass and silage.

Linda and I walked to a nearby village called Muolen.
We came here because our Neighbor Wally, from Te  Awamutu, was born here.
We sat at a cafe and had a coffee and chatted with some local cyclists.
When we left the cafe the cyclists talked to the other locals.
On the way back we were called to come back and talk with Wally's niece.
Such a small world.

Here is another local who we connected with who also knows Wally.

Here is typical Swiss farm scene

St Gallen was another old town we visited by train

The following day we drove to the Alp Santis.

At 2,501.9 metres above sea level, Säntis is the highest mountain in the Alpstein massif of northeastern Switzerland. It is also the culminating point of the whole Appenzell Alps, between Lake Walen and Lake Constanc...ref:Wikipedia. 

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We met a Swiss couple Walter and Silvia who told us about Säntis.

Thanks for the good advise Walter.

View looking up the cable to the top.

Linda posing on Säntis 

Quite cold up there so I had shoes on my feet and a jersey.

I quite often go bare footed, which raises some eye brows.

(Bare footed on the Italian/Swiss border)

In Holland they have "bare feet coaches" because people are so removed from reality they need this kind of help.