25 April 2022

Big Trip - Little Break🇨🇭 Day 592
We meet our dear friend and spend the first slow hiking day with her. She is lenient with our unfitness and picks out a small circular trail and two even smaller lakes.

We give them a cosy breakfast in Felix - that always delights them. And already satiated, we set off on our hike. We collect wild garlic, marvel at the typical meadow swans and learn a lot about the Unesco World Heritage Site at Lake Inkwil. Along the way, we watch hornussers practising - what a strange sport.

But we also notice that things are very orderly here in Switzerland: the picnic spots by the lake are numbered and you have to book them in advance. It's good that we find a very nice restaurant (and for once do without a picnic) and that the spring sunshine burns our winter-pale noses right away.

While we order, my knitting kit moves to my lap and I start knitting. I notice from the look on my friend's face, and a little later on that of the person sitting next to me, that the sight of a knitter in public is unusual. Well, dear Swiss, you'll have to get used to it. I can't help it - therapy is futile!

In the evening, I use our friend's fully equipped kitchen to mix enough (is there such a thing as enough wild garlic pesto?) pesto. Some of the pesto ends up on the plate with plenty of fussili, the rest goes into Felix's kitchen and spreads this incomparably "subtle" aroma when Gerd indulges his wild garlic addiction... I just hope that the jars are empty soon.

At the end of the day, we look back on very cosy, quiet, beautiful and very happy hours. Thank you, dear friend!
#inkwilersee #burgäschisee #bern #solothurn

 

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