{"id":2751,"date":"2011-10-10T10:40:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T10:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=2751"},"modified":"2011-10-10T10:40:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T10:40:59","slug":"so-you-thought-switzerland-was-land-locked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=2751","title":{"rendered":"So you thought Switzerland was land-locked….."},"content":{"rendered":"

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All right, I’m joking…<\/p>\n

But on a hazy day, when the German side is lost in the mist, looking across Lake Constance (the Bodensee to the German speakers out there) is the nearest thing to being by the seaside. I love it there – I really miss the Northumbrian coast where I grew up – and it has the same feeling of space. Unfortunately the beaches and waves and the salty smell are missing (as are fish and chips eaten out of newspaper wrappings), but it’s almost of good. Also missing is the blasting wind that is ever-present in Northumberland – and if I’m honest, that’s something I don’t miss!<\/p>\n

We had lunch in Rorschach looking out over the lake last week – and enjoyed the very last day of good weather, tanking up on some sunshine to see us over the winter!!<\/p>\n

Here is the old Cornhouse, where boats used to bring in corn across the lake. It’s now been restored and is the symbol of Rorschach.<\/p>\n

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We drove over the hills to St. Anton on the way home – but unfortunately the haze stopped us getting the full view of the Alps and into Austria – but it’s still a pretty place and we found a lovely restaurant right up high to eat Vermicelles in the sunshine. Vermicelles are a speciality made of chestnuts – very sweet and delicious and generally only to be had in the autumn – sorry, but I was too busy digging in to take a photo!<\/p>\n

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I don’t know if there are many of you out there who have grown up by the ocean, but I really think that the ocean is something that is in your blood. Given the choice, I’d live in a cottage overlooking the sea (preferably on a Scottish island). I love the sea – it’s somehow relaxing and exhilarating and totally wild and uncontrollable all at the same time. It says freedom very loudly to me.<\/p>\n

However, here I am, living in very beautiful land-locked Switzerland and unlikely to relocate anywhere in the forseeable future – and I really do love it here too!<\/p>\n

So I’ll just carry on dreaming of the sea and going up to the Bodensee to pretend \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Helen<\/p>\n

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All right, I’m joking… But on a hazy day, when the German side is lost in the mist, looking across Lake Constance (the Bodensee to the German speakers out there) is the nearest thing to being by the seaside. I love it there – I really miss the Northumbrian coast where I grew up – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-In","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2758,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}