Colette

I have discovered, to my cost, that it is actually possible to eat too much leckerli (small soft biscuits from Basel). They are dangerously more-ish, but I have learnt my lesson.

Wut?

Just before the lights went out for Morgenstraich at 04:00. Glad to see we're not on our own :-)

Alarm set for 02:30, will leave the hotel at just gone 03:00 to see the official start of Fasnacht at 04:00. The back to the hotel for a snooze, I think :-)

I'd forgotten how weird some German places can be about debit & credit cards - the restaurant we have just been to would only take Visa or Mastercard if they had been issued by a German bank. Good job it was not an expensive meal so we had enough cash.

The Plague, painted by Böcklin in 1898. Looks like it should be an SFF cover.

Flicking through TV channels in the hotel, came across the German version of 'Ghosts'. The character casting is the same, except the arrow through the neck person is female & the dead soldier is a Roman centurion.

That's one way of recycling old Christmas trees :-)

I suppose in Switzerland, Shetland and Welsh ponies would be exotic

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