Month: September 2014

The first couple of nights back in NZ, I didn’t sleep so well. Sunday night, however, I must have finally burned through the adrenaline & excitement of Holiday 2014, because I went to bed at 7:30pm-ish, and resurfaced, unwillingly, at 10:30am, with a couple of wakeful periods, one long, one short. “Short” was being woken…

The plan for today was to have a low-pressure day, which is pretty much what happened. The electrical system in the bathroom finally gave up the ghost (wire worked loose from the breaker was Jono’s guess), so the showering process involved a torch balanced in a toilet roll to bounce light off the ceiling. I…

It took me a couple of hours to get back to sleep after reading The Work Email, and then my alarm woke me 45 minutes later, in accordance with The Plan. ~sigh~ Getting into Zurich and onto a train to Lucerne was fairly easy, in that I followed Jono & he knew where the hell…

The plan for Tuesday is a trip to Lucerne, or more accurately through Lucerne, to go up a mountain in a cogwheel train from Alpnachstadt. Or something like that. I’m leaving the rest of the place names out for now, and will hopefully fill them in later, because the chances of me getting them right…

They really like church bells here. A lot. The double-glazing takes out a bunch of it, but there’re a lot of bells out there. Not a lot happened today; Jono & I went into … place starting with an ‘H’ on the rail line to Zurich … to see Guardians Of The Galaxy, in both…

There was, initially, a plan to visit a park based on an old landslide which had become vegetated, with the possibility of Bears and Wolves, but this ran hard up against Jono’s need to get rid of furniture, so we went wandering along the river instead, surrounded by the cheap showyness of nature. Also cyclists.…