Lindau to Zurich and the end of Europe.

The entrance to the ancient city of Lindau on the German/Austrian border on the Bodensee.

Walking down one of the cobbled streets.

The great window in the Lindau Lutheran Cathedral

Roman Catholic Cathedral in Lindau. I lit another candle here for JJ.

Vegetables from the district at the town market.

Further down the narrow streets from yesteryear.

Interesting sign in Lindau.

This is specially for Steve Ludwig. Someone please show him.

The centuries old Town Hall.

For Papa who taught me to appreciate fine things.

A history of the building painted on the wall.

Beautiful ancient fountain in the town with the birds taking advantage of the cool and clear water.

Another narrow lane.

The ancient entrance to the harbour at Lindau.

Down on the waterfront.

The very old and impressive Police precinct and Harbour Master's office.

A bronze model of the ancient city of Lindau.

A reminder of Nurburgring. A suzuki Swift in the colour I would have preferred!

A cactus garden in Vorarlsburg, Switzerland. Who would have thought.

My first magnificent meal with Guy and Des. Packing on the kgs.

All the bits and pieces!

So very good to see Guy and meet his wife and to hear him speak German!

Our walk through Zurich. Standing in front of the Opera House.

Narrow streets in the old city.

Looking accross the lake at the Cathedral.

A part of the city I remembered from 1976 and 1993 when I visited Hannali.

'Troepies' going off to camp. All Swiss boys do military Service.

Guy with Charlie who is learning to walk on a lead and is showing too much interest in the 'bitches' at 2 years old.

A spectacular house which is now a Buddhist retreat.

An ancient Swiss Castle.

One of the outer walls.

The ancient Rose garden below the castle/Schloss.

One of three of the thousands of spectacular Roses that I photographed,

Another voiew of the Rose garden with somevineyard wedged against the slope below the schloss.

Another waterfront at the top end of the Zurich lake.

We went to St. Gallend and I could not resist this shot!

One of 104 Bow windows in the ancient town of St Galland.

The great Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Galland.

From the back.

Just below the altar. Quite spectacular.

Another candle for JJ. Just thinking of you and mourning.

Another magnificent Bow window.

Spectacular tiling on the Church roof of the Protestant Cathedral.

Muted glory.

And another one!

The result of Guy braaing for 4 generations of his wife's family.

And there they are!

Guy van der Walt, and Jean-Michel Roberts. So magic to see them both in Zurich.

The reason for my visit to the Zurich Zoo. Two Snow Leoprad cubs. They are almost out of view, but spectacular markings.

Just visible centre right in front of the tree. The well campflaged daddy Snow Leopard.

One of the many owls there.

Spectacled Bear family.

Please protect and save them in the wild.

This is a very large Galapagos Tortoise. Very large!

Ambling away from us.

Fruit Bats feeding on a fruit basket in the Indoor Tropical Forest.

This is a spectacular man made Tropical Forest. Full of birds, insecst and reptiles with some stunning flowers and magnificent plants and trees.

A troop of turtles and a pair of ducks.

A Zurich tram rumbles by as I wait for Hannali.

A couple of bikes at the train station.

Hannali designed this by taking a silver ingot and firing a machine pistol bullet through it. A powerful statement.

Looking down from the Cloud. This is a very tall building in Zurich. The tallest.

Another view from up top.

An attempt at a 'selfie' with Hannali. Not as clear as it looked to the naked eye.

This one worked. Amazing to think that we have been friends since 1955 when in Sub B/Grade 2. Wonderful.

The new cultural university of Zurich built in an old Yoghurt factory!

Selfie in the lift door!

The building's logo.

The two of us in the lift doors.

Roof garden of the university.

Main entrance.

Overhead rail and tram rail below.

Looking out from Hannali's apartment.

Hanna;i's apartment designed by her sister Helen. Really magnificent two level apartment.

The table is laid for our impromptu lunch.

Leaving Hannali again to return to Uster.

Guys children's school with a 100m 4 lane tartan track. Larney!
And so the journey through Europe ends and I head for Dubai. I will miss Zurich and someone special. The journey continues.

Austria and the Vorarlberg.

In Felkirsch, Austria at the home of Ulf Albl who left SACS in 1992 to complete his studies in Vienna. This is the view from the front porch across their garden to a filed beyond. Still so green as Autumn approaches.

A solar panel array on a neighbouring home. It does not have to look industrial. Thousands of homes in Germany and Austria have solar panels and especialy on the farms where barn rooves are covered end to end with solar panels. we need to do this a lot more in sunny South Africa and include wind power far more.

A view across the Vorarlberg in Western Austria.

We took the gondola up the mountain and had some spectacular views of the region on the way up.

The view from the top of the mountain of much of the Vorarlburg region. All clean and neat and organized.

The Gondola station on the top with workmen completing the installation of a solar panel array on the South side of the building. Don't let the wonderful sun trick you. It was pretty chilly up there and standing in the shade was not an option.

Interesting 'wrap' on this South African built Ford Ranger belonging to the Security on the mountain top. An interested looking Rotweiler!

Warily approaching the climb down from this play house at the mountain restaurant.

"I need help please"

Big sister to the rescue. Ulf and Andrea have two beautiful daughters.

On the way down again looking up the valley from the gondola.

The river rapids near the base.

I met up with a favourite type of tree - Sequoia - brought from California by the owner of this manor house. Just magnificent.

So, a sideways view of its magnificent size even though only about 120 years old.

Hugging this magnificent tree. Good for the soul.

Ulf and I went this Rolls Royce Museum tucked away in the mountains of Vorarsberg and found that the owner has collected and restored and is still restoring Rolls Royce Phantom 1's of 1927 - 1935 principally. He says they are the best Rolls Royce cars. He has about 100 or so.

Another bespoke bodied Phantom. Unusual 'rounded' cabib section.

I obviously had to take this one of a 'Blue' Rolls Royce as they are so rare. Most are black, Dark Green, Maroon or Navy blue. This one is immaculate. They do all run.

A magnificent Rolls Royce Merlin emgine from a Lancaster Bomber of WW2 vintage.

An unusual body style made specifically for a customer back in the day.

In the mid stages of reconstruction in the open workshop. This is an enormous car.

Some of the literally tens of thousands of parts that this man has.

Unusually, a Bentley in the final stages of restoration. It was a privilege and a pleasure to be able to spend a little time with this multi-millionaire restorer who works on the cars himself together with a number of other specialists who work for him. He says that he has many cars still to restore. We were lucky enough to see some of them from bare chassis examples to some with the bodies being finished to engines in pieces and also at various stages of rebuilds.

Trying to get the tree into two shots. Top.

Bottom. Ulf and family in the left foreground.

One of Ulfs fruit trees in his garden. This is an Apple that is full of fruit. So many people in Germany and Austria have fully bearing Apple trees in their yards as well as pear, plum and Almond trees.

A view of Ulf's home from beneath the Apple tree.

Some nice big yellow Zucchini's ready for the pot in Ulf's garden.

Two shots of a neightbours vegetable garden. It is huge and is producing predigious amounts of food.

Another view with sundry vegetables growing in the compost container including pumpkin and zucchini.

More of his neighbours garden.

From Austria into Switzerland.

Approaching Zurich. The journey continues and the sun still shines.