Spent this Sunday afternoon ín summit sunshine at over 6,000ft - courtesy of cable car whose top station at exactly 2,000 mtrs. The posters around town spoke of a free Johann Strauss concert there at 15:30, but while we could see the bandstand, and 200 seats arranged on the hillside, the band and the audience failed to show up - so we did 3/4 of the Telegraph crossword instead.
Stunning views down to the lake below, and clouds changing the whole time revealing and shrouding distant summits, including the 3,750 mtr Grossglockner where the coach takes us tomorrow - heavy rain forecast!!
But showers was today's forecast, and while we had a few spits on the top, blessed that the nightime thunderstorms that ended yesterday's sunny day of coach travel, and lakeside evening walk did not revisit.
This morning we walked straight from the breakfast table - a struggle given the copious quantities consumed to the 10am service at the town's "Evangelical Church". Proceedings entirely in German, which featured on neither of our school timetables, but the last two hymns included an English translation in the hymnbook so we could enter in there. The first clearly said 'Jamaican folk tune', but we first sang the 3 verses in the style to which the organist was accustomed, before the preacher stood up and sang out at twice the speed and with a little rhythm. 80% of the congregation appeared to be visitors, and 50% of them Dutch. But good to have time for quiet reflection and prayer.
A good day, or to be more accurate, a God day. Auf weidersein.
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Hope it was the cryptic crossword!
ReplyDeleteChris
In my estimation, the answer is evident!! Dave
ReplyDeletePS We finished it Tuesday.