Test Drive

Let's see how this works as far as pictures and videos are concerned. We'll go back to an earlier trip to Europe, in fact, the one with Mary Joy's last German organ recital. We ended that journey with twelve days in Ireland. Here is one of our very favorite trip pictures, taken on Skellig Michael on June 30, 2006. The weather, unusually for that rock in the middle of a watery nowhere, was perfect.




Looks good.

Eight days earlier, in Switzerland, we had driven from Unterseen to Grindelwald and taken the gondola up to Maennlichen.

Here is the Maennlichen station, with the Eiger, Moench and Jungfrau (Ogre, Monk and Maiden: three old friends of ours, whom we expect to see again on our next trip) lined up behind it. A vicious Ogre indeed--this is the infamous North Face of the Eiger, on which dozens of climbers have died.








We then walked back down to Grindelwald. Here's a video of Mary Joy meeting some local inhabitants (you've heard of the "Black Irish;" these are the "Brown Swiss"):




It works!