Skywatch Friday - Engelberg

Back to Switzerland today, down memory lane to a wonderful summer afternoon in Engelberg. We went en masse to meet up with old family friends Hans and Rita, and their family - a friendship expanded into the next two generations and very happily so. At first I thought my brother was leading us, literally and figuratively, up the garden path. He texted us to keep driving past the sealed road, up the gravel road, park in the forest, find the path, keep walking, just a little longer, nearly there ... I was quite convinced he and the gang were in a comfy pub down in the village, laughing at Jamie, Willie and I trekking up a mountain!! As it happened though, a charming Rosti house materialized and there, as promised, were food, libations, family and friends - we had the most wonderful lunch of Rosti and a mushroom ragout I will never be able to replicate.Yesterday my Dad had a hip replacement surgery. For all my grumbling about the walk and the heat, that mountain climb was far more painful for my father whose hip and leg were hurting much more than he let on. How cute do he and my Mum look with those very Swiss hiking aids? After an amazing meal and great fellowship, we all wandered back down the mountain along forested paths, over the river via sturdy wooden bridges, back to the leafy parking lot to rescue the cars, into the village for tea at a cafe - a little food, a little exercise, a lot of love.

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