Comments | selenak: Pics and a rec

selenak

Pics and a rec

Mar 06, 2010 08:33

Yesterday Real Life brought me to Olten in Switzerland, where I hadn't been before. Turns out they have this really beautiful wooden 18th century bridge, which I thought I'd share with you:

( Three pictures ensue )

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Comments 12

g_shadowslayer March 6 2010, 11:05:03 UTC

GORGEOUS bridge. Pretty pretty...

selenak March 6 2010, 13:59:09 UTC

Isn't it just?

greenpear March 6 2010, 12:05:52 UTC

Reminds me of our [used to be] wealth of covered bridges in my area. Most of them have been replaced by modern bridges cause, well they're better - right?

selenak March 6 2010, 13:59:43 UTC

Safer, presumably, for the traffic, but as for the aesthetics...

Grützi! brigittebod March 6 2010, 12:18:20 UTC

That is a very nice bridge. The one in Luzern is better known, but it burned down :-(

Swiss German is fascinating, even if it drives me crazy. I live on the french side of the Röstigraben and I learned Hochdeutsch at school, so every time I cross to the german part I always feel so embarrassed I can't speak my own country's lingo.

Re: Grützi! selenak March 6 2010, 14:00:23 UTC

I remember the first time I visited Switzerland and thought "Tv LIED to me about what Schweizerdeutsch actually sounds like..."

Re: Grützi! brigittebod March 6 2010, 14:20:19 UTC

Even Swiss TV?

Re: Grützi! selenak March 6 2010, 14:53:30 UTC

Alas I had not watched it before that first visit...

zahrawithaz March 6 2010, 21:21:25 UTC

So pretty! And so--well, I've never been to Switzerland, but what's so striking to me is that it comes from a place where 1) wood is not an issue and 2) rain is.

Thanks for the Angel link, btw. I've never seen the show but I could follow it based on my Buffy knowledge, which was very gratifying. And I second you on the Cordelia voice!

selenak March 7 2010, 06:24:19 UTC

Switzerland: have some pictures of German speaking Switzerland from when I was there two years ago, as well as Italian-speaking Switzerland and the Cote d'Azure!

Angel the show is very much worth checking out if you find the time, btw. I always joke that I find BTVS more meta-inspiring and AtS more fanfic-inspiring (as can be seen on my bibliography), and it does contain my two favourite characters in any Joss Whedon show.

shezan March 6 2010, 23:09:58 UTC

Pretteeee bridge!

And I never realised people said "merci" in it, despite having spent some time in Zurich.

selenak March 7 2010, 06:16:40 UTC

Merci: well, they pronounce it differently than you French do - emphasis on the first syllable instead of the second. But they do say it, all the time!