On Thursday, 12th June, Peter and I drove from Grindalwald to St Gallen (some 280 kms) through the Brinig Pass over the mountains and around Lake Lucern, through Zurich city and then to the village on the outskirts of St Gallen to meet up with Nina and her parents at their home for lunch. It was lovely to see Nina again as it is twelve months since she returned from Melbourne. We enjoyed a lovely lunch and then as the weather was closing in we were not able to go to the mountains as they planned. Instead we drove to St Gallen and visited the very famous library in the kloister there. This library is very small and holds original books from 900 BC onwards and had some amazing exhibitions on display including, for some reason, an Egyptian mummy which has been on display since 1820. We stayed in the library for over an hour, it was so interesting. We then visited the cathedral next door and finished our time in St Gallen at a local chocolate cafe to meet up with Nina's boyfriend, who Peter has always called "Neck Chew" but whose real name is Ramon.
It was a lovely few hours and we did enjoy meeting Suzanne and Thomas.
From St Gallen we drove back to Zurich where we stayed the night and had dinner with Sarah (who had lived with us as an exchange student in NZ in 1998/1999) and her mother Marie Therese. Again it was great to catch up. On Friday morning we spent a further couple of hours with Sarah in the city before heading back to Grindalwald.
In the evening we shared a beautiful home cooked meal with Nicole (who had lived with us as an exchange student in NZ 1999/2000), her dad Markus, Maggie (Nicole's school friend from NZ) and Sean the Australian boyfriend.
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