Monday, November 07, 2005
2 days in St Gallen, Che
A ten hour trip from Brussels through Luxembourg and France is St. Gallen Sw., about 45 minutes from Zurich. Home of the textile museum . The main reason this town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site is the Abbey of St. Gall [ AND ] and the Stiftsbibliothek St Gallen that has books up to 1200 years old and a 700 BC mummy that has been in the library for 200 years. There is also the Universität St.Gallen built into the top of one of the hills in town, much like a Hobbit village. The rest of the town is obviously the model used to design Canadian ski resorts. This place is out of a postcard.... In town on the hills slopes are cows and sheep grazing, people hike, and kids run around playing a game where they call out 'Ricolla' (its more of a taunt than a call). A recent banking complex was constructed and they enlisted the help of a famous Swiss artist (I don't know who) and painted the streets of the area red, like a carpet but with a stucco/rubber material. Furniture was made in the same material and it was open to cars etc. like a normal street. We arrived just as it had completed and still smelled of paint. It looked very neat at night.
While at the Universitat St. Gallen, where students leave their laptops unattended for long periods of time, bananas are handed out for free. Downtown you get apples. Food was very expensive, but products were cheap, I may have to go back when I get a job to buy a bike.
The steeple at the St. Gallen monestary (Abbey of St. Gall UNESCO World Heritage Site).
Over looking the town and Lake Constance from Dreilinden hike. That is three lakes up the hill south of the town. See the cows? BTW, Lake Constance is on the border of Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
Further down the hill, with a full view of Abbey St. Gall. The steeple on the right is St. Laurenzen-Kirche mit Aussichtsturm (Church of St. Lawrence)
Up the hill further past the Dreilinden and over the other side..... true Switzerland: cows, bells, chalets....
Very nice wood work on buildings around town.
A new bank was just completed and the whole area around it was had the roads and sidewalks painted red. The surface looked just like a red carpet. Very neat.
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While at the Universitat St. Gallen, where students leave their laptops unattended for long periods of time, bananas are handed out for free. Downtown you get apples. Food was very expensive, but products were cheap, I may have to go back when I get a job to buy a bike.
The steeple at the St. Gallen monestary (Abbey of St. Gall UNESCO World Heritage Site).
Over looking the town and Lake Constance from Dreilinden hike. That is three lakes up the hill south of the town. See the cows? BTW, Lake Constance is on the border of Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
Further down the hill, with a full view of Abbey St. Gall. The steeple on the right is St. Laurenzen-Kirche mit Aussichtsturm (Church of St. Lawrence)
Up the hill further past the Dreilinden and over the other side..... true Switzerland: cows, bells, chalets....
Very nice wood work on buildings around town.
A new bank was just completed and the whole area around it was had the roads and sidewalks painted red. The surface looked just like a red carpet. Very neat.# posted by Us : 2:24 p.m.
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