Life in a year full of Saturdays: Interlacken

Sunday, September 13, 2015

Interlacken (SWITZERLAND) - Far Ken

Interlacken (Switzerland)

12 September - 13 September 2015

Another day and another day on the road. Pointless, the whole trip was pointless and by this stage I had really gotten over the useless departure and arrival situations, the fact that we were simply driving for no reason and the endless bickering that was occurring in the car. Generally, the whole thing had become unpleasant and I'd much rather have just gone on my own, stopped where I wanted to, seen that places that I wanted to and not be bound to whatever agenda we were on.

Anyway, another early morning and we left Chamonix, bound now for Interlacken in Switzerland. I think this choice belong to Vladimir, perhaps he'd been there when he was younger, that amount I can only surmise.

One thing about Switzerland, 'Where are the masses of people that do the work to keep this place so darn neat, tidy and orderly?'. It's a little bit sick, and kind of weird. Everything has its place, everything is too perfect. Even firewood is stacked so perfectly that it makes you wonder how it was done, by whom and how long it took. The grass here was be genetically manufactured to look the colour that it does and to grow to the height it does. There are meadows of perfectly manicured grass that seems to just be, because from what I saw, there was nobody outside doing any work of any sort. No hoards of people cutting vast swathes of lawn or masses of cows chewing up these rolling hills. Sickening, odd and fascinating. Welcome to SWITZERLAND.