This unwieldy link is to a story in a newsletter I get from Peter Legge. He's a public speaker and author from Vancouver. This is a story about Gandhi that I really enjoyed called "It's not what you say, it's how you say it". Thought I would pass it on.
A funny video for you. Lexi does some of this, excluding the bat of course!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152235846804993
Downtown we found a good coffee pot to replace the one that died a week
ago. No! I haven’t been without coffee, we had an alternate method of making.
Shopped at the upmarket store called Rewe for ingredients for a Caesar
(garlic) Salad which we haven’t had in some time.
Aside, Rewe is not normally an upmarket store. This one moved in
replacement of a Migros (Swiss) which was upmarket. To keep the same clientele
they’ve kept many of the gourmet foods.
Back to Caesar, we make our own dressing and it is yummy. So we are
headed to the cashier and listing off the ingredients and I’d forgotten garlic!
Doh! Good thing we remedied that before leaving. Garlic is different here than
what we used to buy in Canada, fresher I think. It comes with some stem, is
redder in colour, although I don’t think it’s the Russian variety, it’s closer
to that than the Chinese garlic we get in Canada.
What a perfect day with Christoph! Drove back into the Kaiserstahl area
through more charming villages for a hearty, very tasty, lunch at family owned Gasthaus
Baeren (guesthouse bear) in Vogtsburg-Oberrotweil.
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| Charming! |
This is a restaurant where
locals dine, great food and “doggie bags” for later. A quick visit into St.
Michael’s Church with beautiful murals on the walls and ceilings, stunning
paint work in consumate detail.
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| The Church had many of these windows, beautiful! |
Then on to the Weingut (winery) Landerer in Niederrotweil which is part
of V-Oberrotweil (say that five times fast...) to sample wines. We bought three cases of six bottles each,
tempted to buy more but know we can come back.
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| Yes, that's a sleepy duck sculpture in the herb cart |
Wines are grown in different
soil conditions in the area from volcanic rock to a chalky like soil which
produce different tastes of course, even when growing the same grape. Wine
making is part science, part art, part knowledge and part weather and a lot
more. It’s a wonder to me how they produce a quality product all the time with
those variations, always has been. He gave us an extra bottle to taste test at
home.
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| Couldn't do it justice in photos but tried! |
Then up, up, up to the top of a hill, through the vineyard terraces for
a panoramic view of the area. Magnificant! Christoph said the terraces are
continually changing, to work them with machinery and due to erosion. Beautiful
day although a bit hazy. At the top we
even saw a Lotus car, I’ve seen them at auto shows in my past but never one on
the road, being a lovely shade of bright blue. A tractor hauled a trailer full
of tourists also so we had the sight of snazzy to practical sorts of wheels.
So many family run businesses here. The Landerer’s son has taken over
the business from his father. Same with the Pub, although the Dad is still the
chef. There is a pride evident, and while some of the children must leave the
area for work, others stay and carry on the legacy of their parents. Example at
the winery the second son has taken over out of four sons, other three are not
involved.
Another example, we saw four generations of women of the same family
working the market at the Munsterplatz the other day.
We usually have four
horses in the field next door along with the cattle. This morning there was
only one remaining and it wasn’t happy about it. It ran around the field for
about an hour looking for it’s mates, seriously distressed. I felt so sorry for
it! Nothing I could do of course but all the same. Back from our day trip and
they are back together again, sigh.
Our lavender is in full bloom now.
Cheers, Bx2 and Lexi Cat without a bat, thank goodness for that!
(How silly can I get? No I haven't had my nose in the wine.)
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