Week 9     Switzerland


Our Bookseller is still flitting around Wales, revisiting Hay-on-Wye, and other attractions, and settling down at The Dragon, in Swansea, birthplace of Dylan Thomas. He might go to Switzerland before next week, but for now, he is the recipient of another post card, from Wifey.

TRANSLATION of Wifey's handwriting:

Dear Husband,

I failed to place in the race in Switzerland, but at least I did not fall off the camel (at anytime I was on one.) Yes, I rode that camel, but not in Switzerland, and certainly not recently, so don't panic. The race was in 2008. I was nowhere near Dielsdorf at the time.I am still slaving in the store. LOL!
Doug and Sebastian told me they would drop off this postcard at the hotel on their way back to Scotland. Isn't it fun? Do you remember seeing it before? Actually, I copied it from a photo someone took of me when I was in Egypt, in case you don't. When things are slow at the store, I whip out the art supplies, andI finish things like this off on the computer. 

CONTINUATION FROM POSTCARD, in a note in a book she has sent to Hank:

See? I am keeping busy! 

      We had this book in the store, so I sent it along,with the boys, too. (Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine, by Holly Morris. Villard. 2005.) You might read it to unwind after a long day of hiking the Matterhorn, or whatever you are doing between bookstore visits. It's pretty interesting and light reading. She is an amazing woman! Amongst other things, she climbs the Matterhorn, and even becomes the first woman ever to enter the traditional camel race of the Saharan oasis town of Timia. In the Tuareg camel race, Holly came in second (to last.) So,how appropriate is it for this trip? It is very inexpensive, so you can leave it for the next traveler in the club car of the train or at the airport.

   Take the guys out to dinner before they leave or get lost in the Alps. Give them hugs for me.

Love,
Wifey

 BLAME SHERI for my card!  I felt pressed for time and rather than starting something new for this week's card, I asked Sheri to find a way to let me use what I was drawing/painting at the time. When she wasn't fast enough, I had to resort to Google once again. :) It just happens that there is an actual foundation for such a convolution of images and ideas as my Swiss postcard. 

The original photo of the gentleman and the camel:  (AP Photo / Keystone, Patrick B. Kraemer)