Found the snow!

A fifteen minute walk from the apartment took me to... the edge of the snow! One street started completely clear of the white stuff but by the time I reached the top of the street it was a winter wonderland!!

As I left the city on a footpath (which had I continued on it would have taken me up a very steep path to a small mountain overlooking the

city... but that's for another day!) I found a very quiet spot which had a really homely looking restaurant, and a little further along a remote and snowy graveyard. The snow was pretty thick up there, and I only went up about 100m!

There were not many people out except dog walkers and very active looking octagenerians with their skiing sticks... they make me feel very unfit and lazy ;-)

Now that I realise how close to the edge of the city I am, I must make the most of it - and get Priya to join me at the weekend!! Tomorrow we are going to look at a possible apartment for renting in Thalwil, near the lake (fingers crossed it's a good one!)

On a cheerier note, hearing that there was a special exhibition of Van Gogh's nightime scenes, including the astonishing Starry Night, reminded me that he once wrote:

“The sight of the stars always makes me dream. Why should the spots of light in the firmament be less accessible to us than the black spots on the map of France? Just as we take the train to to go to Tarascon, we take death to go to a star.”

Just hope you're not stuck next to him on that train. S